Volume IX, Number 3, Summer 2009

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: The Red Beating Heart

Correspondence

Ramesh Ponnuru, David Frum, William Voegeli, Harry V. Jaffa, and more.

Essays

William Voegeli: Look Out for the Union Label

Liberals rejoin the picket line.

Henry Olsen: The Reemerging Republican Majority?

Political demography and the future of conservatism.

Charles R. Kesler: The Conservative Challenge

The Reagan Revolution vs. the Obama Revolution.

Greg Forster: Sacred Enterprise

Capitalism is not only about money; it's about morality.

Reviews of Books

Bret Stephens: Statecraft as Warcraft

A review of Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft, by Angelo M. Codevilla

Joseph Epstein: Against the Virtual Life

A review of Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, by Mark Helprin

Steve Forbes: Lowering the Boom

A review of The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence, by Robert J. Samuelson

Michael M. Uhlmann: The Liberals' Constitution

A review of Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence , by Bradley C.S. Watson

David F. Forte: The Closing of the Judicial Mind

A review of Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer, by Robert F. Nagel
and How Judges Think, by Richard A. Posner

Alonzo L. Hamby: FDR's Long Shadow

A review of New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
and Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H.W. Brands

John Derbyshire: Rudyard's Adventures in Wonderland

A review of Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling, by Charles Allen

Susan D. Collins: The Beautiful and the Good

A review of Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics", by Ronna Burger

Paul A. Rahe: Rediscovering Herodotus

A review of The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, edited by Robert B. Strassler;
Herodotus: Histories Book VIII , by Herodotus, edited by A.M. Bowie;
Herodotus: Histories Book IX , by Herodotus, edited by Michael A. Flower and John Marincola;
and A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV , by David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, and Aldo Corcella, edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: K-Street Consultants’ Memo to the Somali Pirates

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