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Volume IX, Number 2, Spring 2009

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Spring 2009 CRB (4.4 MB PDF)

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. Dunn

Richard Vedder: The Education Mill

A review of The Race Between Education and Technology, by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

Lawrence M. Mead: Econs and Humans

A review of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Victor 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 Tuyll

Andrew 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 Sageman
and 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. Bailey

John 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 Tucker

Robert M.S. McDonald: Light and Liberty

A review of The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson, by Kevin J. Hayes

Joseph Tartakovsky: Dead End

A review of Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: First, Do No Harm


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