Volume XI, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter/Spring 2010/11

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: A Decade of CRB

Correspondence

After the Midterms; Islamic Disinformation; The Second Sex

Essays

William Voegeli: The Tao of Jerry

Mr. Brown goes to Sacramento...again.

Hadley Arkes: The Mirage of Enumerated Powers

Limited government rests ultimately on moral reasoning.

Mark Helprin: Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again

Reductions in nuclear arms make America less safe.

Thomas D. Klingenstein: A Golf Story

What a round of golf reveals about today's higher education.

Diana Schaub: “Unfriending” Friendship

What we’ve lost in the age of Facebook.

Richard Samuelson: Jefferson, Adams, and the American Future

What their lively correspondence reveals about our politics.

Harvey C. Mansfield: Providence and Democracy

Tocqueville's alliance of religion and liberty.

Angelo M. Codevilla: Our Borders, Ourselves

Amercians' appetite for cheap labor and cheap drugs endangers Mexico.

Paul A. Cantor: A Handshake Across the Centuries

The European Roots of Chinua Achebe's postcolonial classic.

Clark S. Judge: Ronald Reagan at 100

Honoring the Gipper's principles and his resolve.

Reviews of Books

Steven F. Hayward: Standing Pat

A review of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, edited by Steven R. Weisman

Gerard Alexander: Progressive Fat Cats

A review of Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America, by David Callahan

George H. Nash: Conservatism's Indispensable Man

A review of William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement, by Lee Edwards; and Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus, edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball

Daniel J. Mahoney: The Utopian Fallacy

A review of The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton

Jack Rakove: The Original Revolutionary

A review of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings, edited by Hazel Burgess; and The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine , by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.

Hillel Fradkin: God of War and Will

A review of Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam, by Fred M. Donner; and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, by Robert R. Reilly

William Kristol: Reconstructing the Public Philosophy

A review of Designing a Polity: America's Constitution in Theory and Practice, by James W. Ceaser

James Q. Wilson: Uneven Progress

A review of The History of the Social Sciences since 1945, edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine

Bradley C. S. Watson: A Plea for Positivism

A review of The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism, by Gary L. McDowell

Cheryl Miller: Feminist Action Hero

A review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy , The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy , by Steig Larsson

John E. Alvis: Poet of the Street

A review of On Whitman , by C.K. Williams

Ramesh Ponnuru: Explaining Obama

A review of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, by Stanley Kurtz; and The Roots of Obama's Rage, by Dinesh D’Souza

Michael M. Uhlmann: Natural Law Man

A review of Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law, by Hadley Arkes

Tevi Troy: Condition Critical

A review of The Truth About Obamacare, by Sally C. Pipes

Matthew Spalding: Back to Basics

A review of The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, edited by Jack N. Rakove; and The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide, by Seth Lipsky

Robert F. Nagel: Loose Lips Sink Ships

A review of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Jean M. Yarbrough: Birth of a Nation

A review of Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States: His Own Words, Selected and Arranged by Daniel Ruddy, by Daniel Ruddy

Wilfred M. McClay: Exceptionally American

A review of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, by Claude S. Fischer

Carnes Lord: Decider-in-Chief

A review of Decision Points, by George W. Bush

John Blundell: Radio Liberty

A review of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns

Michael Knox Beran: Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Problem

A review of The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century, by Peter Watson

Jon A. Shields: Making Religion Safe for Democracy

A review of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, by Ian Buruma

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: The Ultimate Social Network

A look back at the next big thing

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: The Common Defense

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