Volume XII, Number 1, Winter 2011/12

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Change, Change, Change

Correspondence

Arguing Natural Law; Right-Wing Judicial Activism; Blame the Professors

Essays

Robert J. Samuelson: Reckless Optimism

It was a new age, until it wasn't.

Diana Schaub: Solve for X

Malcolm X's strangely American life.

William Voegeli: Enough Already

A welfare state we can live with.

Colin Dueck: How Wars End

One side wins.

Michael Nelson: Soldiers and Citizens

The careful balance of civil-military relations.

Algis Valiunas: King of Pain

Novelist David Foster Wallace shows how to recover one's soul.

Reviews of Books

David Pryce-Jones: Scold, Scourge, Swashbuckler, Star

A review of Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, by Christopher Hitchens
and Hitch-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens

Robert P. George: Conservatism Properly Understood

A review of Conserving Liberty, by Mark Blitz

Craig S. Lerner: Have a Nice Millennium

A review of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker

Edward Feser: Science and Scientism

A review of On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
and The Tyranny of Science, by Paul Feyerabend

Patrick Chamorel: Specter of Decline

A review of Melancolie francaise, by Éric Zemmour
and La France est-elle finie?, by Jean-Pierre Chevènement

Michael Burlingame: Why They Fought

A review of The Union War, by Gary W. Gallagher

Jeremy Rabkin: The Limits of Justice

A review of The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, by Kevin Jon Heller
and The International Criminal Court: Europe’s Guantanamo Bay?, by David Hoile

Robert R. Reilly: Persecution and the Art of Music

A review of Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, by Wendy Lesser

Michael J. Lewis: Classical Triumph

A review of The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Anniversary Edition), by Henry Hope Reed and Francis Morrone

William Gonch: Of Thee We Sing

A review of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, edited by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, and Diana Schaub

Neil Rogachevsky: Studying Abroad

A review of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough

John Derbyshire: The Importance of a College Education

A review of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, by Andrew Ferguson
and In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic, by Professor X

Bradley C. S. Watson: First, Let’s Kill All the Law Schools

A review of Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, by Walter Olson

James Q. Wilson: Measuring the Slant

A review of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, by Tim Groseclose

Symposium

Harold R. Rood (1922-2011)

Reflections by Larry P. Arnn, Stephen A. Cambone, Patrick J. Garrity, Steven F. Hayward, Harry V. Jaffa, Brian T. Kennedy, Ronald F. Lehman II, Daniel C. Palm, and Matthew Spalding.

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Let a Hundred Blockbusters Bloom

China plans to blow up Hollywood's monopoly.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Iran's Mortal Threat

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