Volume XII, Number 2, Spring 2012

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Promises, Promises

Correspondence

Malcolm and Martin; How We Fight; Peaceable Kingdom; Built to Last

Essays

James Q. Wilson: Tocqueville and America

Tocqueville understood democracy, but the founders understood America.

William Voegeli: Reclaiming Democratic Capitalism

Workers of the world—invest!

Michael Anton: Paradise Lost and Regained

The Beach Boys' Smile is an American masterpiece.

Algis Valiunas: Left, Right, and Dickens

He was a conservative liberal, and a liberal conservative.

Tao Wang: Leo Strauss in China

A new dialogue between West and East.

Matthew Continetti: Dungeons and Dragons

The power politics of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

Symposium

John Marini: Abandoning the Constitution

John Marini analyzes America's departure from constitutional governemnt.

James W. Ceaser: Restoring the Constitution

James W. Ceaser charts a course back to the Constitution.

Reviews of Books

Jack Rakove: Hail, Britannia

A review of Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, by Maya Jasanoff

Kenneth Minogue: Opiate of the Intellectuals

A review of Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton and How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism, by Eric Hobsbawm

Jonathan V. Last: Render Unto Geezers

A review of One Nation under AARP: The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future, by Frederick R. Lynch

Daniel DiSalvo: State of the Union

A review of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America, by Joseph A. McCartin

Stephen H. Balch: How the West was Won

A review of Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris and Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson

Neil Rogachevsky: Losing Their Religion

A review of How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too), by David P. Goldman

John R. Bolton: Against the Globalistas

A review of Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?, by John Fonte

Rita Koganzon: Rumor Has It

A review of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, by Joseph Epstein

Joseph Tartakovsky: I Still Expect to Win

A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black

Cheryl Miller: The Divine Miss Jane

A review of Why Jane Austen?, by Rachel M. Brownstein

Rafael Major: A Free Soul

A review of Shakespeare's Freedom, by Stephen Greenblatt

Mark Blitz: Hobbes Defanged

A review of The Platonian Leviathan, by Leon Harold Craig

Steven B. Smith: Being and Tyranny

A review of Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting, by Richard Velkley

Colin Dueck: Bringing Out the Good China

A review of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, by Aaron L. Friedberg

Jakub J. Grygiel: Power Surge

A review of Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, by G. John Ikenberry and The Future of Power, by Joseph Nye

Angelo M. Codevilla: The Sources of American Conduct

A review of George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Obama Hypnotized by Europa

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