Volume VII, Number 4, Fall 2007

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Forcing the Spring

Correspondence

Promoting Democracy Abroad; Winning the Middle East; American Patriotism; Creed and Culture; Copyright Law; Democratic Republicanism; The Truth about Leo Strauss

Essays

Steven F. Hayward: Reagan and the Historians

Giving the Gipper his due.

Angelo M. Codevilla: American Statecraft and the Iraq War

Learning from our mistakes.

William Voegeli: The Trouble with Limited Government

Are we all big-government conservatives now?

Books in Brief

Brief reviews of Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy, by Colin Dueck;
The End of Government...As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work, by Elaine C. Kamarck;
and The Inner Vision: Liberty and Literature, edited by Edward B. McLean.

Reviews of Books

Michael Barone: Land of the Free

A review of America: The Last Best Hope, Volume I: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
and America: The Last Best Hope, Volume II: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, by William J. Bennett

Harvey Sicherman: A Thousand and One Nights

A review of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, by Michael B. Oren

Charles R. Kesler: No Euphoria Yet

A review of Making War to Keep Peace, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick;
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, by Norman Podhoretz;
and Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions, by John Agresto

Algis Valiunas: Aryan Sister

A review of Leni Riefenstahl: A Life, by Jürgen Trimborn, translated by Edna McCown
and Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, by Steven Bach

Joseph Tartakovsky: Mother Tongue

A review of Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, by Seth Lerer

Cheryl Miller: The Genius of Old New York

A review of Edith Wharton, by Hermione Lee

Mark A. Heberle: Making It New

A review of The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts, by Milan Kundera

David L. Tubbs: From Under the Rubble

A review of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947–2005, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney

Bradley C. S. Watson: Behind the Veil of Ignorance

A review of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition, by David Lewis Schaefer

Christopher Nadon: Back to the Cave

A review of Republic, by Plato, translated by Joe Sachs
and The Republic, by Plato, translated by R.E. Allen

Mark Blitz: The Broad Ground of Courage

A review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh

Eva Brann: Welcome to Colonus

A review of The Theban Plays of Sophocles, translated by David R. Slavitt

John Derbyshire: China Discovers the West

A review of The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 B.C. to the Present, by Harry G. Gelber

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Out of Focus

Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: A Rare Alignment