Volume X, Number 3, Summer 2010

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Did We Win?

Correspondence

Essays

Charles R. Kesler: The Stakes of Obamacare

Its ill effects on health care, politics, and our character.

William Voegeli: Paul Ryan's Roadmap

The challenges ahead on the road to solvency.

Michael Nelson: The Case for the Academies

Where should America get her military officers?

Michael M. Uhlmann: Don't Fence Me In

The problem of presidential power.

Reviews of Books

Byron York: Teddy White's Ghost

A review of Renegade: The Making of a President, by Richard Wolffe; The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election, by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson;
and Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilmann and Mark Halperin

Steven F. Hayward: Flights of Fancy

A review of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, by Peter Beinart

Denis Boyles: Spineless Intellectuals

A review of The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul Berman The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism, by Theodore Dalrymple

James Kirchick: Win, Place, or Show?

A review of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations, by Lee Smith

Stephen Moore: The Cocktail Napkin that Changed the World

A review of Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity , by Brian Domitrovic

Matthew J. Franck: Original Intents

A review of God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson, by Vincent Philip Muñoz

Joseph M. Knippenberg: The Prayers of Presidents

A review of Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush , edited by Gaston Espinosa

Mackubin Thomas Owens: The Fog of War

A review of The American Civil War: A Military History, by John Keegan

Colin Dueck: Stuck in Vietnam

A review of From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 , by George C. Herring

George Mocsary: Monopoly of Violence

A review of To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement, by Robert H. Churchill

Alonzo L. Hamby: Present at the Creation

A review of Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics , by Lewis L. Gould; Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901-1916, by Peri E. Arnold; The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government, by Will Morrisey; Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy , by Sidney M. Milkis

Ken I. Kersch: A Friend to the Union

A review of John Marshall: Writings (Library of America), edited by Charles F. Hobson

James R. Stoner, Jr.: Neither Force Nor Will

A review of Law and Judicial Duty, by Philip Hamburger;
Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review, by Douglas Edlin;
and I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligation of Legal Officials, by Steve Sheppard

Douglas Kries: Medieval Renaissance

A review of The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, by Rémi Brague, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

Michael P. Zuckert: The Strauss Wars Revisited

A review of Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers, by Peter Minowitz
and Cloaked in Virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy, by Nicholas Xenos

John Davidson: Waiting for Fidel

A review of Gabriel García Márquez: A Life ,by Gerald Martin

Tevi Troy: Get Happy

A review of The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, by Derek Bok

Mary Eberstadt: Hear Me Roar

A review of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: American Sex-ceptionalism

What does Sex and the City show the world about America?

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Hollow Talk in the South China Sea

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