Volume XII, Number 3, Summer 2012

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Romney's Dilemmas

Correspondence

Essays

Charles R. Kesler: The Crisis of Liberalism

Is it on its last legs, or about to be reborn?

Michael Ledeen: The New War Against America

Threats from Iran to Latin America, Russia, and China.

Algis Valiunas: Winged Words

Reading the Iliad in English.

Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Jonah Goldberg: AmeriCons

A review of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books, edited by Charles R. Kesler and John B. Kienker

William Voegeli: Not Leveling With Us

A review of The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It, by Timothy Noah and The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

R. Shep Melnick: A Tale of Two Cities

A review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray

Michael Knox Beran: Disraeli's Ghost

A review of The Conservatives: A History, by Robin Harris

Steven F. Hayward: For Better, For Worse

A review of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship, by Richard Aldous

Fred Siegel: Misreading the Tea Leaves

A review of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson

Ramesh Ponnuru: Divided We Stand

A review of The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism, by Jeffrey Bell

Michael M. Uhlmann: Right-side Up

A review of The Upside-Down Constitution, by Michael S. Greve

Matthew Continetti: The Philadelphia Story

A review of The Founders' Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It, by Larry P. Arnn

Claire Berlinski: First Freedoms

A review of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide, by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea

John Yoo: No Respect

A review of Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, by Stephen F. Knott

Michael Nelson: Eisenhower as Statesman

A review of Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War, by David A. Nichols; Eisenhower: The White House Years, by Jim Newton; and Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith

Mackubin Thomas Owens: On the Warpath

A review of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War, by Eliot A. Cohen

Charles Horner: The Dreamer and the Doer

A review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel

Harvey C. Mansfield: The Will to Cool

A review of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Terrence O. Moore: Boys to Men

A review of The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood, by William J. Bennett

Daniel Oliver: Intelligent Design

A review of If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement, by David B. Frisk

Joseph Epstein: My Fair Language

A review of The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, by Henry Hitchings

Christopher Caldwell: Live and Let Die

A review of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith, Sonia Arrison

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Red State, Blue State

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