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Volume X, Number 2, Spring 2010
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Are People Being Nice?
Correspondence
Winning the War on Terrorism; Lincoln as One of UsEssays
William Voegeli: The Meaning of the Tea Party
The grassroots are up in arms.Wilfred M. McClay: The Sources of American Renewal
Reclaiming self-government from the bottom up.Robert J. Samuelson: Bubbles, Bubbles, Toils and Troubles
What the history of financial crashes should teach us.Richard Vedder: Explaining the Great Depression
Changing interpretations of the 20th century's worst economic collapse.Reviews of Books
Terrence O. Moore: The Making of an Educational Conservative
A review of The Making of an Educational Conservative, by E.D. HirschChristopher Flannery: The Common Sense of the Subject
A review of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, by Matthew SpaldingJohn J. Pitney, Jr.: American Woman
A review of Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah PalinCharles Murray: Who is Ayn Rand?
A review of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burnsand Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller
Denis Boyles: Vive la Différence
A review of The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike, by Peter BaldwinFred Siegel: Insatiable Liberalism
A review of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State, by William VoegeliDarius Udrys: Pure Son of Liberty
A review of The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, by Alex StorozynskiRichard Samuelson: Processed History
A review of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, by Gordon S. WoodDaniel J. Mahoney: A Friend of America and Liberty
A review of Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings, edited and translated by Aurelian Criutu and Jeremy JenningsJohn Blundell: Winter of Discontent
A review of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy BeckettPaul A. Cantor: Ink-Stained Genius
A review of Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing, by Michael SlaterSteven B. Smith: Nazi or Philosopher?
A review of Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933–1935, by Emmanuel Faye, translated by Michael B. SmithMark Blitz: How to Read Plato
A review of Plato’s Philosophers: The Coreherence of the Dialogues, by Catherine H. ZuckertDiana Schaub: The Spirit of the Laws
A review of Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic, and Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, by Paul A. RaheThomas Karako: Thinking the Unthinkable, Again
A review of The Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century, by Keith B. PaynePatrick J. Garrity: Mr. X and the Prince of Darkness
A review of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, by Nicholas ThompsonParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Farewell to the China Station




