Volume IX, Number 1, Winter 2008

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: The New Patriotism

Correspondence

The Disputed Question

Hadley Arkes and William Voegeli on conservatism and the civil rights movement.

Essays

William Voegeli: The Roots of Liberal Condescension

Ordinary Americans deserve some respect.

Barry Latzer: The Great Black Hope

At last, some good news about race and crime.

Andrew E. Busch: Is Health Care a Right?

Why the answer is crucial to the coming debate.

Steven F. Hayward: All the Leaves are Brown

Today's environmentalists see no hope for man—or nature.

Symposium

Government and the Economic Crisis

A symposium featuring George Gilder, Robert Higgs, Stephen Moore, and Alan Reynolds.

Reviews of Books

Abigail Thernstrom: Getting Beyond Race

A review of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, by Richard Thompson Ford;
<Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Vintage), by Randall Kennedy;
and A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win, by Shelby Steele

John R. Graham: The Right Prescription

A review of Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It, by David Dranove
and Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, by George P. Schultz and John B. Shoven

Carnes Lord: ...And We're Here to Help You

A review of The Warping of Government Work, by John D. Donahue
and A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It, by Paul C. Light

Robert F. Nagel: Voting Rights and Wrongs

A review of Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered, by Anthony A. Peacock

Dorothea Israel Wolfson: Growing Up Fast

A review of Freedom’s Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children, by David L. Tubbs

James Hankins: Republic of Devils

A review of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic, by Paul A. Rahe

Michael Barone: Kicking Nixon Around

A review of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein

Lincoln Bicentennial, 1809-2009

Christopher Flannery: O Captain! My Captain!

Diana Schaub: The Great Debate

Mackubin Thomas Owens: Commander-in-Chief

Peter W. Schramm: Douglass and Lincoln

John C. Briggs: Steeped in Shakespeare

Martha Bayles: Unfinished Work

Locus Classicus

Bruce S. Thornton: Clever, Enduring Odysseus

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Decision in the West

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