Volume VI, Number 4, Fall 2006
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Our Predicament
Essays
Mark Helprin: The War in Lebanon
Why Israel won this battle, but greater ones lie ahead.Larry P. Arnn: Why the GOP is Flunking Higher Education
The Republicans risk turning America's universities into a federally-funded no-truth zone.William Voegeli: The Era of Big Ideas is Over
Will liberals embrace a future of ad hocery?Barry Rubin: The Rise and Decline of al-Qaeda
How al-Qaeda, once a pioneer among Islamists, has become outmoded.Peter W. Schramm: Born American, But in the Wrong Place
A personal reflection on the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.John Rosenthal: The Road to Condemning Guantanamo
The Nazis, moral equivalence, and the U.N. Guantanamo report.Reviews of Books
Theodore Dalrymple: Suicide of the West
Reviews of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, by Bruce Bawer;Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too, by Claire Berlinski;
and Londonistan, by Melanie Phillips
Richard Samuelson: Faith-based Liberalism
A review of The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter BeinartCharles Geshekter: Beating Ploughshares into Swords
A review of The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair, by Martin MeredithGerard Alexander: The Cost of Good Intentions
A review of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William EasterlyR. Shep Melnick: The $10,000 Solution?
A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles MurrayWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.: Amicus Brief
A review of Friendship: An Exposé, by Joseph EpsteinMark Blitz: Giving Honor Its Due
A review of Honor: A History, by James BowmanJohn Yoo: The Pettifoggery of War
A review of Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways by Alan M. DershowitzStephen B. Presser: We, the People
A review of America's Constitution: A Biography, by Akhil Reed AmarDaniel Walker Howe: In Search of a Public Philosophy
A review of Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate, by James W. Ceaser, with responses by Jack N. Rakove, Nancy L. Rosenblum, and Rogers M. SmithForrest McDonald: Sage Advice
A review of What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers, by Richard BrookhiserDiana Schaub: Mystic Chords of Memory
A review of Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives, edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Joseph R. FornieriJean Edward Smith: A People's History of Reconstruction
A review of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Eric FonerBarton Swaim: Florid Balderdash
A review of The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World, by Jerome McGannElihu Grant: The Right Stuff
A review of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. NelsonRobert M. Collins: Respecting Reagan
A review of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, by Richard ReevesJustin Shubow: The Prince and the Dandy
A review of The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style, by Nicholas AntongiavanniBenjamin Balint: Spinning Spinoza
A review of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca GoldsteinRobert Royal: What Hath God Wrought?
A review of The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, by Rodney StarkKatherine Auspitz: If Men Were Angels
A review of Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, by Michael BurleighPatrick J. Garrity: Americas' Game
A review of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, by David MaranissShadow Play
Martha Bayles: Birth of a Blockbuster
An inside look at Dan Brown's new novel.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril
