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Volume VIII, Number 3, Summer 2008
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: A Righteous Wind
Correspondence
Science and Design; The Collapse of Civilization?Essays
William Voegeli: Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement
What the Right got wrong—and right.Wendy E. Long: Bearing Witness
The life and character of Clarence Thomas.Mark Helprin: Rich Country, Strong Arms
We ignore China's grand strategy at our peril.Books in Brief
Reviews of Books
John J. Pitney, Jr.: Nixon's the One
A review of Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, by Conrad BlackChristopher Levenick: What Howe Hath Wrought
A review of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker HoweAllen C. Guelzo: Washing Mud from Marble
A review of Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. KrannawitterJoseph Tartakovsky: Man of a Thousand Faces
A review of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography, by Alberto ManguelLesley Herrmann: Puritans and Cavaliers
A review of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyEva Brann: Yin and Yang
A review of Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World, by Ricardo J. QuinonesAlgis Valiunas: The Critic Who Sometimes Exists
A review of Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30sand Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s, by Edmund Wilson
Paul A. Rahe: The Great and the Good
A review of The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics, by Rober FaulknerJohn Fonte: Beyond the Nation State
A review of The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation, by Strobe Talbott; and Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy, by Marc. F. PlattnerAmity Shlaes: Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up?
A review of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture, by Brink LindseyJames R. Stoner: Our Robed Rulers
A review of Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History, by Keith E. Whittington`George Thomas: First Things
A review of Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, by Anthony Lewisand Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, by Martha Nussbaum
Thomas E. Schneider: City on a Hill
A review of Christianity and American Democracy, by Hugh HecloRalph Ketcham: A Bright and Active Boy
A review of The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, by Lorraine Smith PangleShadow Play
Martha Bayles: A Monument to Adams
HBO’s John Adams is a brilliant portrait of a great American.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Make the Sudan an Offer It Can't Refuse
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