LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

John A. Basinski and Harry Neumann on Neumann's nihilism

Thomas West and Gregory B. Smith on Natural Right and America's future 

REVIEWS

George C. S. Benson and John West, Jr.: Who Will Educate the Educators?
A review of The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980 and The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time by Diane Ravitch, and Challenge to American Schools: The Case for Standards and Values, edited by John H. Bunzel

Steven R. Boyd: Ersatz Founding Fathers
A review of The Anti-Federalist: Writings by the Opponents of the Constitution, Selections by Murray Dry from Herbert Storing's The Complete Anti-Federalist, and The Essential Antifederalist, edited by W.B. Allen and Gordon Lloyd

Francis Canavan:  Empty Passions of Modern Men
A review of Passion: An Essay on Personality, by Roberto Unger

Edward J. Erler: Judicial Enlightenment Run Riot
A review of On What the Constitution Means, by Sotirios Barber

Douglas A. Jeffrey: Bad Marx for Thomas Sowell
A review of Marxism: Philosophy and Economics, by Thomas Sowell

Jack Kemp: Moral Capital
A review of The Spirit of Enterprise, by George Gilder

Dennis J. Mahoney: God Save This Honorable Court!
A review of United States Reports, 1984-85 Term, by Warren E. Burger et al.

Bruce Pencek: Shaky Legal Foundations
A review of A Theory of Law, by Philip Soper

Larry Peterman: New Babbits
A review of Habits of the Heart:Individualism and Commitment in American Life, by Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton

Harold W. Rood: The Naivete of George Kennan
A review of The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War, by George Kennan

Ellen D. Tucker: American Warriors, and Their Women
A review of Machine Dreams, by Jayne Anne Phillips

BOOKS IN BRIEF