Volume VIII, Number 4, Fall 2008
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Essays
Charles R. Kesler: The Audacity of Barack Obama
Taking the Democratic nominee seriously.William Voegeli: Reforming Big Government
The welfare state can’t go on indefinitely, but it does.Paul A. Cantor: Is There Intelligent Life on Television?
The small screen's new sophistication.James W. Ceaser: The Presidential Nomination Mess
Every four years, it's a whole new ball game—with different rules.Reviews of Books
Gerard Alexander: Sirens of Davos
A review of The Post-American World, by Fareed ZakariaAngelo M. Codevilla: Inside the Box
A review of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century, by Philip BobbittJakub J. Grygiel: Georgia on My Mind
A review of The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, by Edward LucasJean M. Yarbrough: Progressive Conservative?
A review of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, by Joshua David HawleyDouglas A. Jeffrey: Confused About Conservatism
A review of White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, by Allan J. Lichtmanand Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, by Paul Edward Gottfried
R. Shep Melnick: Raising the Bar
A review of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, by Stephen M. TelesJeremy Rabkin: Leafing Through Old Books
A review of The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Current Age, by Mark HulliungRichard Samuelson: Political History for a Political Nation
A review of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph J. Ellisand The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, by Jay Winik
John Derbyshire: When Worlds Collide
A review of The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, by Hugh Kennedyand God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215, by David Levering Lewis
Edward Alexander: First, Survive
A review of Jews and Power, by Ruth R. WisseBenjamin Balint: In the Beginning
A review of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, by Benny MorrisSteven Emerson: Eyes Wide Open
A review of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthyCheryl Miller: Bad Little Fictions
A review of House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family, by Paul FisherJames V. DeLong: Property Rights and the Web
A review of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, by Jonathan ZittrainSubscribers Only: Download the CRB in PDF
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