Claremont Review of Books

Volume X, Number 2, Spring 2010


From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Are People Being Nice?

Correspondence

Winning the War on Terrorism; Lincoln as One of Us

Essays

William Voegeli: The Meaning of the Tea Party

The grassroots are up in arms.

Wilfred M. McClay: The Sources of American Renewal

Reclaiming self-government from the bottom up.

Richard Vedder: Explaining the Great Depression

Changing interpretations of the 20th century's worst economic collapse.

Robert J. Samuelson: Bubbles, Bubbles, Toils and Troubles

What the history of financial crashes should teach us.

Reviews of Books

Charles Murray: Who is Ayn Rand?

A review of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns
and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller

Daniel J. Mahoney: A Friend of America and Liberty

A review of Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings, edited and translated by Aurelian Criutu and Jeremy Jennings

Thomas Karako: Thinking the Unthinkable, Again

A review of The Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century, by Keith B. Payne

Mark Blitz: How to Read Plato

A review of Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, by Catherine H. Zuckert

John Blundell: Winter of Discontent

A review of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett

Denis Boyles: Vive la Différence

A review of The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike, by Peter Baldwin

Paul A. Cantor: Ink-Stained Genius

A review of Charles Dickens, by Michael Slater

Terrence O. Moore: The Making of an Educational Conservative

A review of The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, by E.D. Hirsch

Christopher Flannery: The Common Sense of the Subject

A review of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, by Matthew Spalding

Patrick J. Garrity: Mr. X and the Prince of Darkness

A review of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, by Nicholas Thompson

John J. Pitney, Jr.: American Woman

A review of Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin

Darius Udrys: Pure Son of Liberty

A review of The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, by Alex Storozynski

Steven B. Smith: Nazi or Philosopher?

A review of Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935, by Emmanuel Faye, translated by Michael B. Smith

Fred Siegel: Insatiable Liberalism

A review of Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State, by William Voegeli

Diana Schaub: The Spirit of the Laws

A review of Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty, Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, by Paul A. Rahe

Richard Samuelson: Processed History

A review of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 , by Gordon S. Wood

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Farewell to the China Station

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