Volume IX, Number 4, Fall 2009

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: The Politics of Repeal

Correspondence

The New Liberal Challenge; What Unions Do; A Right to Health Care?; The Moral Case for Capitalism; Israel and the Natural Law

The Disputed Question

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

Will Morrisey: Glory Days

A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, by Ali A. Allawi

Paul Hollander: Unrepentant

A review of Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, by Mark Rudd

Jean Bethke Elshtain: Good Citizens

A review of The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, by Jon A. Shields

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 Goldgeier Clinton'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, by Parag Khanna The Return of History and the End of Dreams , by Robert Kagan

Michael P. Zuckert: Madison's Avenues

A review of The Madisonian Constitution , by George Thomas
and James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government, by Colleen A. Sheehan

Michael Anton: Worst Case Scenario

A review of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, by Graham Allison
On Nuclear Terrorism, by Michael Levi
The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation, by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman

Angelo M. Codevilla: Transcendental Hustlers

A review of Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828
and Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877, by Walter McDougall

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. Posner
and Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis , by John B. Taylor

John Lukacs: History and Mythology

A review of Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History , by Margaret MacMillan

Ryan P. Williams: Still Great

A review of The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, by R.B. Bernstein

Robert Royal: Common Sense and Philosophy

A review of Phenomenology of the Human Person, by Robert Sokolowski

Bradley C. S. Watson: The Old Race of Judges

A review of A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments , by Robert H. Bork

Cheryl Miller: Simple Gifts

A review of Gilead: A Novel and Home: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson

Richard E. Morgan: When the Law is an Ass

A review of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law, by Philip K. Howard

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Obama Blinks Twice

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