Claremont Review of Books

Volume X, Number 1, Winter 2009


From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: The Tea Party Spirit

Correspondence

Making California Golden Again; Robert Bork and Original Intent; Unions and Civility; Correcting a Misimpression

Correspondence

Making California Golden Again; Robert Bork and Original Intent; Unions and Civility; Correcting a Misimpression

Essays

Steven F. Hayward: Reading Up on the Right

To succeed, conservatism must rediscover its intellectual roots.

Angelo M. Codevilla: Why We Don’t Win

Nearly a decade after 9/11, the U.S. government hasn't managed to ensure our peace, safety, and freedom.

Allen C. Guelzo: The Bicentennial Lincolns

A man for his time, our time, or all times?

Allan Greenberg: The Last Full Measure of Devotion

Appreciating Boston's Robert Gould Shaw memorial.

Algis Valiunas: Shall We Fight for King and Country?

Once again, the contrast between Churchill and Bloomsbury matters.

Reviews of Books

John O'Sullivan: Game, Set—But not Match?

A review of The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980–1989, by Steven F. Hayward

Regina E. Herzlinger: The Antidote to Obamacare

A review of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, by Sally C. Pipes

Jeremy Rabkin: UNserious

A review of U.N. Ideas that Changed the World, Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss

Gerard Alexander: The Incoming Tide

A review of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, by Christopher Caldwell

Theodore Dalrymple: Islam’s Captive Audience

A review of Islam in American Prisons: Black Muslims’ Challenge to American Penology, by Hamid Reza Kusha

James Q. Wilson: Free to Use

A review of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, by Gene M. Heyman

Anthony A. Peacock: Democrats’ Protection Act

A review of Voting Rights—And Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections, by Abigail Thernstrom

Walter Russell Mead: A New Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

A review of Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789–1941, by David C. Hendrickson; and Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism, by Julian E. Zelizer

William Voegeli: Nice Work if You Can Get It

A review of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford; and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton

Locus Classicus

Larry P. Arnn: A Little Light Reading and Some Cataclysm

Winston Churchill's Thoughts and Adventures

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Animation and Aspiration

Avatar is the latest example of where art, politics, and theology meet.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: The Fate of the Raptor

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