Volume XI, Number 3, Summer 2011

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: You Can Learn a Lot From Libya

Correspondence

Essays

Angelo M. Codevilla: The Chosen One

The rise and rise of Barack Obama.

James L. Buckley: Restoring Federalism

A cure for unlimited government.

Robert R. Reilly: Bernard Lewis and the Arab Spring

The foremost historian of the Middle East on its future.

William Voegeli: Days of Rage, Years of Lies

The radical tip of the liberal spear.

Scott Yenor: All the Progressives' Men

Reading the American Presidents Series.

Reviews of Books

Bruce Cole: Lives of Johnson

A review of Brief Lives: An intimate and very personal portrait of the Twentieth Century, by Paul Johnson

Peter C. Myers: After Racism

A review of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America, by Eugene Robinson;
Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life - LBJ to Obama, by Harold James;
and Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century, by Amy L. Wax

Joshua Muravchik: Grand Old Strategy

A review of Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since WWII, by Colin Dueck

Mary P. Nichols: Beauty and Truth

A review of Plato’s Political Philosophy, by Mark Blitz

Anthony Esolen: Thump, Thump

A review of La Vita Nuova, by Dante Alighieri, Translated by David R. Slavitt

Mark A. Heberle: Inheritors of Unfulfilled Renown

A review of Young Romantics: The Tangled lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation, by Daisy Hay

Michael Nelson: King of the Hill, Top of the Heap

A review of Frank: The Voice, by James Kaplan

John C. Eastman: Writ of Error

A review of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, by Erwin Chemerinsky

Algis Valiunas: At the Zoo

A review of H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series (Library of America), by H.L. Mencken, edited by Marion Rogers

Benjamin Balint: Sickness Unto Death

A review of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, by Robert S. Wistrich

David K. Nichols: Conceived in Liberty?

A review of A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic, by George William Van Cleve and The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner

Eva Brann: Liberalism and Liberal Education

A review of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities , by Martha C. Nussbaum

Akhil Amar: The Great Debate

A review of Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier

Conrad Black: Still Fit to Print?

A review of Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America, by William McGowan

Jennifer Homans: Politics En Pointe

A review of Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, by Jennifer Homans

Jon A. Shields: We Gather Together

A review of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell

James Q. Wilson: Not-So-Dismal Science

A review of Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element , by John D. Mueller

John Zvesper: Moderation in Pursuit of Democracy

A review of The CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE LIBERAL ORDER: Defending Democracy against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends , by Daniel J. Mahoney

R. Shep Melnick: Equality Misunderstood

A review of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: The Guided and the Misguided

What soap operas at home and abroad teach us.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Anchors Away

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