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Volume IX, Number 2, Spring 2009
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: The New New Deal
Correspondence
Essays
William Voegeli: The Wilderness Years Begin
Does conservatism need to reinvent itself?Robert Samuelson: What Caused the Financial Meltdown?
Too much success bred failure.Carl J. Schramm: Up From Poverty
The mysteries of economic growth.Daniel Walker Howe: The Ages of Jackson
Is Andrew Jackson an American hero?Mark Helprin: The Disputed Question
Mark Helprin rebuts Peter Wehner's defense of the Bush Doctrine.Reviews of Books
R. Shep Melnick: The Two Billion Dollar Judge
A review of Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins, by Joshua M. DunnRichard Vedder: The Education Mill
A review of The Race Between Education and Technology, by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. KatzLawrence M. Mead: Econs and Humans
A review of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass R. SunsteinVictor Davis Hanson: Ways and Means of War
A review of Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History, by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van TuyllAndrew C. McCarthy: Riddle of the Sands
A review of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East, by Kenneth M. Pollack;The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, by Olivier Roy;
and Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, by Gilles Kepel
Robert R. Reilly: Thinking Like A Terrorist
A review of Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century, by Marc Sagemanand The Mind of Jihad, by Laurent Murawiec
Kenneth Minogue: The Iron Lady
A review of “There Is No Alternative”: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters, by Claire Berlinski.Algis Valiunas: Highborn Fools
A review of Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1691-1709: Presented to the King, by Duc de Saint-Simon, translated by Lucy Norton;Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1710-1715: The Bastards Triumphant, by Duc de Saint-Simon, translated by Lucy Norton;
and Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1715-1723: Fatal Weakness, by Duc de Saint-Simon, translated by Lucy Norton
Joseph M. Bessette: Hail to the Chief
A review of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power, by Jeremy D. BaileyJohn Zvesper: Notes on the State of Jefferson
A review of Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, by David TuckerRobert M.S. McDonald: Light and Liberty
A review of The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson, by Kevin J. HayesJoseph Tartakovsky: Dead End
A review of Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian BarnesParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: First, Do No Harm
