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Volume VIII, Number 2, Spring 2008
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Buckley's Legacy
Correspondence
Losing the Iraq War; Islamic Tribal Terrorism; Kurt Vonnegut, Conservative?Essays
James W. Ceaser: What a Long, Strange Race It's Been
With no new thinking to offer the candidates offer...themselves.Harvey C. Mansfield: The Common Form of All the Virtues
A sermon on charity in deed and speech.Michael M. Uhlmann: When Law is Not Enough
Lawyers and legislators can only go so far in directing the conduct of war. Then you need a president.Carl J. Schramm: Economics and the Entrepreneur
How the 20th-century debate on economics shaped the 21st-century economy.Harry V. Jaffa: God Bless America
What Senator Obama and Reverend Wright don't know about their country.Larry P. Arnn: Thoughts and Adventures
Celebrating the eight-volume Winston S. Churchill, a biography worthy of a great man.Locus Classicus
John Patrick Diggins: The Education of Henry Adams
Reviews of Books
Daniel Oliver: A Born Teacher
A review of Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement, by Linda Bridges and John R. Coyne, Jr.; and Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review, by William F. Buckley, Jr.Ronald J. Pestritto: A Nicer Form of Tyranny
A review of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah GoldbergRoss Douthat: Against the Atheists
A review of What’s So Great About Christianity, by Dinesh D’SouzaPeter Berkowitz: The Persistence of Religion
A review of A Secular Age, by Charles TaylorJoseph M. Bessette: Science and Faith
A review of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, by Michael Behe;The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, by Francis S. Collins;
and God’s Universe, by Owen Gingerich
John J. Pitney, Jr.: Not a Hugger
A review of Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, by Stephen F. HayesAlan Gibson: Property vs. Democracy
A review of Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison, by Stephen L. ElkinAllen C. Guelzo: States' Rights and Wrongs
A review of The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, and The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, by William W. FreehlingRobert G. Ingram: From the New to the Old Whigs
A review of Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers, by Michael BaroneMichael Knox Beran: He Was No Alexander Hamilton
A review of Fallen Founder: A Life of Aaron Burr, by Nancy IsenbergJoseph Tartakovsky: Golden Juggler
A review of In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage, by Joseph EpsteinCheryl Miller: The Master
A review of The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, by P.G. WodehouseParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: McCain Mutiny
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