Volume IX, Number 4, Fall 2009
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: The Politics of Repeal
The New Liberal Challenge; What Unions Do; A Right to Health Care?; The Moral Case for Capitalism; Israel and the Natural Law Angelo M. Codevilla and Bret Stephens on American victory and defeat.Essays
William Voegeli: Failed State
How the California dream became a nightmare.Carl J. Schramm: Can Democracy Survive Capitalism?
The challenge of creative destruction.Harry V. Jaffa: Lincoln in Peoria
Lewis Lehrman rediscovers the Great Emancipator's seminal anti-slavery speech.Reviews of Books
James Keller: Is Deregulation to Blame?
A review of A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression, by Richard A. Posnerand Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, by John B. Taylor
Colin Dueck: The End of the End of History
A review of America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, by Dereck Chollet and James GoldgeierClinton’s Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000, by John Dumbrell
The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, Parag Khanna
and The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan
Paul Hollander: Unrepentant
A review of Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, by Mark RuddMichael Anton: Worst Case Scenario
A review of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, by Graham AllisonOn Nuclear Terrorism, by Michael Levi
and The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation, by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman
Will Morrisey: Glory Days
A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, by Ali A. AllawiJean Bethke Elshtain: Good Citizens
A review of The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, by Jon A. ShieldsCheryl Miller: Simple Gifts
A review of Gilead and Home, by Marilynne RobinsonRobert Royal: Common Sense and Philosophy
A review of Phenomenology of the Human Person, by Robert SokolowskiRichard E. Morgan: When the Law is an Ass
A review of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law, by Philip K. HowardBradley C. S. Watson: The Old Race of Judges
A review of A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments, by Robert H. BorkMichael P. Zuckert: Madison's Avenues
A review of The Madisonian Constitution, by George Thomasand James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government, by Colleen A. Sheehan
Ryan P. Williams: Still Great
A review of The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, by R.B. BernsteinJohn Lukacs: History and Mythology
A review of Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, by Margaret MacMillanAngelo M. Codevilla: Transcendental Hustlers
A review of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828and Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877, by Walter McDougall
Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Obama Blinks Twice
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