Volume V, Number 4, Fall 2005

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Bush's Philosophy

Correspondence

Essays

Angelo M. Codevilla: Some Call it Empire

Imperial delusions are no substitute for defeating our enemies.

Charles R. Kesler: The Crisis of American National Identity

Should America be defined by Anglo-Protestant culture?

Jeremy Rabkin: Continental Drift

Why Europe is not a union.

Gerard Alexander: The Other American Exceptionalism

Why the European Right is so left.

D. Vincent Twomey: The Mind of Benedict XVI

A lifetime of reflection on theology and politics.

Reviews of Books

William Voegeli: Rebels Without a Clue

A review of Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter

Jean M. Yarbrough: Left Behind

A review of Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought, by Bob Pepperman Taylor

Forrest McDonald: The Unlovable Mr. Adams

A review of John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant

Hadley Arkes: The Rights and Wrongs of Alan Dershowitz

A review of Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights, by Alan M. Dershowitz

Glen E. Thurow: The Measure of Greatness

A review of What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President, by Michael Lind
and Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered, by John Channing Briggs

Steve Sailer: Boys Will Be Boys

A review of Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences, by Leonard Sax

Mark Blitz: Involuntary Associations

A review of Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism, by Michael Walzer

Robert Devigne: Talking Politics

A review of Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, by Paul Franco

Ramesh Ponnuru: Rerunning Reagan

A reviews of The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan, by John Ehrman
and Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, by Gil Troy

Robert F. Nagel: Selective Justice

A review of Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees, by Michael Comiskey

David Gratzer: First, Do No Harm

A review of Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer, by Sally Pipes

Stanley Rosen: Being Unreasonable

A review of The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism, by Richard Wolin

Joel Schwartz: A Blessing unto the Nations

A review of Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History, by David Klinghoffer

Ricardo J. Quinones: A Clear Head

A review of Martin Luther by Martin Marty

Andrew Klavan: Imagine There's No Heaven

A review of The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, by Alister McGrath
and The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris

John Silber: The Cost of Ignorance

A review of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much, by Richard Vedder

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Bad Council

A review of Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos, by Dore Gold

Michael Knox Beran: Discreet Revolutionary

A review of John Jay: Founding Father, by Walter Stahr

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Herd Animals