Volume X, Number 1, Winter 2009
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: The Tea Party Spirit
Making California Golden Again; Robert Bork and Original Intent; Unions and Civility; Correcting a Misimpression Making California Golden Again; Robert Bork and Original Intent; Unions and Civility; Correcting a MisimpressionEssays
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. HaywardRegina E. Herzlinger: The Antidote to Obamacare
A review of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, by Sally C. PipesJeremy Rabkin: UNserious
A review of U.N. Ideas that Changed the World, Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. WeissGerard Alexander: The Incoming Tide
A review of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, by Christopher CaldwellTheodore Dalrymple: Islam’s Captive Audience
A review of Islam in American Prisons: Black Muslims’ Challenge to American Penology, by Hamid Reza KushaJames Q. Wilson: Free to Use
A review of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, by Gene M. HeymanAnthony A. Peacock: Democrats’ Protection Act
A review of Voting RightsAnd Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections, by Abigail ThernstromWalter 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 SecurityFrom World War II to the War on Terrorism, by Julian E. ZelizerWilliam 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 BottonLocus Classicus
Larry P. Arnn: A Little Light Reading and Some Cataclysm
Winston Churchill's Thoughts and AdventuresShadow 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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