Volume XI, Number 4, Fall 2011

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Debating the Debates

Correspondence

Liberals and Leftists; Conservative Foreign Policy; Federalism Lost; The Moynihan Report

Essays

Mark Helprin: The Central Proposition

America's misguided effort to transform the Arab Middle East.

Angelo M. Codevilla: The Lost Decade

Ten years after 9/11, America has neither peace nor victory.

Hadley Arkes: A Natural Law Manifesto

With replies by David F. Forte and Michael M. Uhlmann.

David F. Forte: May It Please the Court

Michael M. Uhlmann: The Need for Natural Law

William Voegeli: Diane Ravitch Takes It All Back

But she had it right the first time.

Kathleen Arnn: Scouts' Honor

The Boy Scout Handbook at 100.

Michael Anton: Sour Grapes

Napa Valley is California, only more so.

Reviews of Books

Ross Douthat: The Art of Persuasion

A review of The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009, by Irving Kristol

Charles Horner: New World Order?

A review of On China, by Henry Kissinger

Richard A. Epstein: A New Birth of Economic Freedom

A review of Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform, by David E. Bernstein

Richard E. Morgan: Standing in the Need of Prayer

A review of Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World, by Jack M. Balkin

James R. Stoner, Jr.: Redeeming Higher Education

A review of The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For, by Naomi Schaefer Riley;
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, by Mark Taylor;
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - and What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus;
and Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

Dorothea Israel Wolfson: Modern Family

A review of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought, by Scott Yenor

Algis Valiunas: De Luxe

A review of Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age, by Mosette Broderick

Joseph Postell: The Incredible Shrinking Presidency

A review of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, by Eric A. Posner

Stanley Kurtz: Getting to Democracy

A review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama

Charles Murray: One-Dimensional Man

A review of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Oprah's World Mission

The high priestess of Change-Your-Life TV.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: The Boitnott Doctrine

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