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“Answering Edward Said,” in POLICY REVIEW, June and July 2008

 

“After America: Fareed Zakaria’s ‘Post-American World,’” in THE NEW YORK SUN, April 30, 2008

 

“Is Neoconservatism Jewish?” in SH’MA, April 2008

 

“Fighting Jihad,” a review Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism, by George Weigel, in POLICY REVIEW, April and May 2008

 

“The Persistence of Religion,” a review of A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor, in THE CLAREMONT REVIEW OF BOOKS, Spring 2008

 

“The Iranian Threat Won’t Just Go Away,” in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, March 18, 2008

 

“Teaching The Federalist in South Korea,” online at NRO, Feb. 29, 2008

 

“The Neocons and Iraq,” in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, Feb. 16, 2008

 

“On Toleration, a review of Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to “Accept Differences” Undermines Civil Society, by Robert Weissberg, and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire, by Wendy Brown, in THE AMERICAN INTEREST, March and April 2008

 

“Exceptionally American,” a review of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March 2008

 

“Ehud Olmert’s Israel,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, February 4, 2008

 

 

2007 

“What is a University for?”, a review of Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, by Anthony T. Kronman, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2008 

 

“The Insanity of Bush Hatred,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Nov. 14. 2007

 

“Democracy at Home,” a review of Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government, by Michael Mandelbaum, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Oct. 22, 2007

 

“Mahtani’s Approach to Core Curricula Falls Short,” a letter to the editor in THE HARVARD CRIMSON, Oct. 12, 2007, responding to “Bain and Suffering,” by Sahil K. Mahtani, in THE HARVARD CRIMSON, Oct. 5, 2007

 

“Ethics 101,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Oct. 8, 2007

 

“Conserving Russell Kirk,” a review of The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays, ed. George A. Panichas, in POLICY REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 2007

 

“Contested Authority,” a review of The Stillborn God, by Mark Lilla, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 15, 2007

 

“Our Compassless Colleges,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 5, 2007

 

“Vulgarizing the War Debate,” a review of The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror, by Stephen Holmes, in POLICY REVIEW, Aug. and Sept. 2007—also available in pdf

 

“The New New Atheism,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 16, 2007

 

“American Creed,” a review of Americanism: The Fourth Great American Religion, by David Gelernter, in THE NEW YORK POST, July 15, 2007

 

“Spinoza’s Religion,” a review of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave us Modernity, by Rebecca Goldstein, in POLICY REVIEW, June and July 2007--also available in pdf

 

“The Conservative Mind,” in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 29, 2007

 

“Proudly Liberal,” a review of Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism, by Paul Starr, in POLICY REVIEW, April and May 2007--also available in pdf

 

“Illiberal Liberalism,” a review of Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate, by Ronald Dworkin, in FIRST THINGS, April 2007

 

“The Right Stuff,” at POLITICO.COM, March 28, 2007

 

“A Reply to Dinesh D’Souza,” in a symposium, “The Enemy D’Souza Knows,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, March 16, 2007

 

“Excommunication: A Response to Alan Wolfe,” online only at THE NEW REPUBLIC, March 6, 2007

 

“Excommunication for Thee…,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 26, 2007

 

“Strengthening Higher Education,” prepared for OPPORTUNITY 08:  Independent Ideas for our Next President, a project of the Brookings Institution, February 2007

 

“New Media and Old,” a review of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March 2007--also available in pdf

 

“Oy Vey!: Israel Contemplates its Political Leaders,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 5, 2007

 

“The Longer Way,” in Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys, ed. Mary Eberstadt (Simon and Schuster, 2007)

 

 

2006 

Liberal Education, Then and Now,” in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007–also available in pdf  (This essay is based on a lecture originally titled “John Stuart Mill’s Idea of a University, and Our Own,” delivered at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Sept. 15, 2006, at a symposium honoring the 200th anniversary of Mill’s birth and the address on liberal education he delivered there in 1867.)

 

“Against Relativism,” a review of Neoconservatism: Why we Need it, by Douglas Murray, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Oct. 23, 2006

 

“Partisan Freedom,” a review of Whose Freedom: The Battle over America’s most Important Idea, by George Lakoff, in POLICY REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 2006 (pdf version)

 

“Freedom at War,” a review of Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, by Richard A. Posner, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Sept. 18, 2006

 

“War-Torn Democrats,” a review of With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty, ed. Will Marshall, and The Good Fight: Why Liberals–and Only Liberals–Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart, in POLICY REVIEW, Aug. and Sept. 2006, also available in pdf

 

“When Liberalism was Young,” a review of John Stuart Mill: A Biography, by Nicholas Capaldi, in THE CLAREMONT REVIEW OF BOOKS, Summer 2006

 

“Gentlemen Revolutionaries,” a review of Revolutionary Characters: What made The Founders Different, by Gordon S. Wood, in POLICY REVIEW, June and July 2006

 

“The Case Against Compromise,” a review of The Party of Death, by Ramesh Ponnuru, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, June 1, 2006

 

“Progressives for Growth,” a review of The Moral Consequences of Growth, by Benjamin M. Friedman, andThe Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity, by Gene Sperling, in POLICY REVIEW, April and May 2006

 

“Unscholarly Scholars: Mearsheimer, Walt, and “The Israel Lobby,” available online only at PeterBerkowitz.com, April 8, 2006

 

“U.S. Military: 8, Elite Law Schools: 0,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 20, 2006

 

“The Ambiguities of Rawls’s Influence,” in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, a journal of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 4/No. 1, March 2006, pp. 121-127

 

“Summers’s End,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 6, 2006

 

“Literature in Theory,” a review of Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, ed. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March, 2006

 

“Israel after Sharon …,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 6, 2006

 

“Ariel Sharon’s Legacy,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Jan. 16, 2006

 

“Executive Muscle,” a review of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11, by John Yoo, in the NEW YORK POST, Jan. 15, 2006

 

 

2005

“Lacking the Wisdom of Solomon,” in NRO, Dec. 5, 2005

 

“Democratizing the Constitution,” a review of Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution, by Stephen Breyer, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006

 

Introduction (in pdf), The Future of American Intelligence (Hoover Institution Press, 2005)

 

“Speaking their Language,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Oct. 4, 2005

 

“A Worthy War Critic,” a review of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, in POLICY REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 2005

 

“Democracy’s Challenge,” an introduction to Democracy Dialogues, an internet cite produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs

 

“The Court, the Constitution, and the Culture of Freedom,” in POLICY REVIEW, August and September 2005

 

“Eye on 2007: Kuwait’s women prepare for their first election,” online at the WEEKLY STANDARD, July 8, 2005

 

Introduction (in pdf), Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases (Hoover Institution Press, 2005)

 

“Liberty First, Democracy Later,” in HAARETZ, June 10, 2005

 

“Educating the University,” a review of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, by Donald Alexander Downs, in POLICY REVIEW, June and July 2005

 

“They’ve Kuwaited Long Enough,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, May 4, 2005

 

“Studying Islam, Strengthening The Nation,” in THE WASHINGTON POST, April 12, 2005

 

“Laws of Nations,” a review of A New World Order, by Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Limits of International Law, by Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner, and Law without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government requires Sovereign States, by Jeremy Rabkin, in POLICY REVIEW, April and May, 2005, pp. 71-80

 

“Variety, Vulnerability describe U.S. Politics,” online in the TAIWAN NEWS and syndicated by Knight Ridder, Feb. 26, 2005

 

“He is Charlotte Simmons,” a review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March 2005

 

“They always Bash Bush First,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb.7. 2005

  

 

2004

“Rules of Disengagement,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Dec. 17, 2004

 

“Enlightenment Rightly Understood,” a review of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2004/Jan. 2005

“Saskia Sassen Reveals High-Handed Habits, Stifles Discussion,” in the Chicago Maroon, Nov. 16, 2004

“A Second Chance to Unite,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Nov. 12, 2004

Introduction (in pdf), Varieties of Progressivism in America (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)

 

Introduction (in pdf), Varieties of Conservatism in America (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)

“Politicizing Reason,” a review of Reason: Why Liberals will win the Battle for America, by Robert Reich, in POLICY REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 2004

“Tabloid Scholarship,” a review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton, in THE NEW YORK POST, Oct. 3, 2004

Bush v. Gore Comes Back,” in THE NEW YORK SUN, Sept. 23, 2004, p. 9

“Liberalism and Power,” in Beyond Power and Paradise, ed. Tod Lindberg (New York: Routledge, 2004)

“Real Republicans,” in THE NEW YORK SUN, Sept. 2, 2004, p. 16

“Lubavitchers and Liberals,” a review of Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Jan Feldman, in POLICY REVIEW, August and September 2004

“Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 19, 2004

“Destructive Decision,” in THE NEW YORK SUN, July 12, 2004, p. 9

“Political Paradoxes,” in THE NEW YORK SUN, June 29, 2004, p. 10

“Demography and Security in Israel,” June 5, 2004 [This originally appeared in the June 14 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD under a title that inadvertently encouraged opinions about the issue at variance with the tone and argument of the article.]

 “The Shadow of Fascist Philosophy on Today’s Conservative Politics,” a letter to the editor, in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 14, 2004, in response to Alan Wolfe, “A Fascist Philosopher Helps us Understand Contemporary Politics,” in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, April 2, 2004

“The Lawfulness of the Election Decision: A Reply to Professor Tribe,” in 49 VILLANOVA LAW REVIEW 259 (2004)

“The Case for the War in Iraq,” in the STANFORD DAILY NEWS, April 16, 2004, and syndicated by Knight-Ridder as a Hoover Institution Weekly Essay

 “Israel’s House Divided,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, April 12/April 19, 2004

“Fukuyama in Tel Aviv,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 19, 2004, online only

“What to do about Same-Sex Matrimony,” in the JERUSALEM POST, March 16, 2004

“An Oasis: Kuwait Women make Progress,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, March 3, 2004

“Good Fences make Good Neighbors,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 1, 2004

“Reclash of Civilizations,” in THE BOSTON GLOBE, Feb. 15, 2004

“The Liberal Arts in Kuwait,” online only in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Jan. 28, 2004

 

2003

“The Israeli Summit: Talking National Security in Herzliya,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Dec. 19, 2003

“A Guide to US Liberalism,” in THE JERUSALEM POST, Dec. 9, 2003

Introduction, Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (Hoover Institution Press, 2003)

“Bush and the Liberal Tradition,” in THE JERUSALEM POST: Upfront, Nov. 14, 2003, p. 15

“Liberalism and School Choice,” in The Future of School Choice, ed. Paul Peterson (Hoover Institution Press, 2003), pp. 107-131

“Point of View: Rules and Grievances,” in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, October 10, 2003, p. B16

Contribution to, “Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far?: A Symposium” in COMMENTARY, October 2003, pp. 29-31

“Unradical Son,” in THE BOSTON GLOBE, August 10, 2003, p. H1

“The Liberal Spirit in America,” in POLICY REVIEW, August and September 2003, pp. 29-47

“Democracy in Kuwait,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 11, 2003

“The Demagoguery of Democratic Theory,” in CRITICAL REVIEW, vol. 15, nos. 1-2, Winter-Spring 2003

“Dubious Diversity,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 7 and July 14, 2003, pp. 14-16

“What hath Strauss Wrought,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, June 2, 2003

“Hypocrisy at the U.N.,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 24, 2003, pp. 17-18

 

2002

“This is Berlin: When a Famed Thinker Took to the Airwaves,” a review of Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty, by Isaiah Berlin, in THE FORWARD, Dec. 20, 2002

“The Academic Liberal,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Dec. 16, 2002

“Reasonable Doubts,” a review of Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Modern Philosophy, by Susan Neiman, and Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, by Bernard Williams, in THE WASHINGTON POST, Dec. 15, 2002, p. BW04

“Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in Jerusalem,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Dec. 2, 2002

“Byron at Ground Zero,” a review of Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism, by George P. Fletcher, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, November 4, 2002, pp. 31- 37

“The Pathos of the Kass Report,” a review of Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, a report by the President's Council on Bioethics, in POLICY REVIEW, October & November 2002, pp. 71-78

“Beyond Good and Evil,” a review of Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. Shelley Frisch, and Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Joachim Köhler, trans. Ronald Taylor, in THE WASHINGTON POST, p. BW15, Aug. 18, 2002

“The Complexities of Cloning” in THE JERUSALEM POST, August 2, 2002

“Returning to Reason Reasonably,” a review of Return to Reason, by Stephen Toulmin, in FIRST THINGS, August 1, 2002, p. 61

“Liberals versus Religion,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 15, 2002, pp. 13-16

“Wilentz's Fabricated Scalia,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, July 11, 2002

“Fish Story,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE, June 28, 2002

“After Autonomy,” a review of Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice, by William Galston, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD June 17, 2002, pp. 35-39

“In Praise of Balance,” a review of The Ship of State, by Norma Thompson, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 20, 2002, pp. 41-45

“Liberal Education,” a review of Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, ed. Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems, by Frederick M. Hess, Rhetoric versus Reality: What we Know and What we Need to Know about Vouchers and Charter Schools, by Brian p. Gill, P Michael Timpane, Karen E. Ross, Dominic J. Brewer, Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public, by Terry M. Moe, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, May 20, 2002, pp. 35-39

“Senator Schumer Performs an Unexpected Service,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, May 17, 2002

“John Rawls and the Liberal Faith,” in the WILSON QUARTERLY, Spring 2002, pp. 60-69

“The Senate Judiciary Committee's Opportunity,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, April 22, 2002

“Kafka in Massachusetts,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, April 1, 2002, pp. 15-16

“Jane Addams's Values,” a review of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, by Jean Bethke Elshtain, and The Jane Addams Reader, ed. Jean Bethke Elshtain, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 25, 2002, pp. 36-38

“Tribe v. Truth,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 4, 2002, pp. 29-33

Contribution to “Scoring the SOTU,” a symposium in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Jan.30, 2002

 

2001

“Giving Sophistry a Bad Name,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Dec. 31, 2001/ Jan. 7, 2002, pp. 18-19

“The Continuing Controversy over Bush v. Gore,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Dec. 12, 2001

“The Professors and Bush v. Gore ,” in THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Autumn 2001, pp. 76-89

“Money and Love,” a review of Economic Sentiments, by Emma Rothschild, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Oct. 1, 2001, pp. 41-45

“Contribution to ‘A Call to Arms,’” a symposium in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Sept.21, 2001

“Put to the Test,” in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Sept. 18, 2001

“Down to the Wire,” a review of Deadlock: The Inside Story of America's Closest Election, by the Political Staff of The Washington Post, Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and Commentary, ed. E.J. Dionne Jr. & William Kristol, 36 Days: The Complete Chronicle of the 2000 Presidential Election Crisis, by Correspondents of The New York Times, and The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election, by James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch, in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, July 27, 2001, p. 27

“Reckless Disregard, II,” a review of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose our President, by Vincent Bugliosi, in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, July 20, 2001

“Reckless Disregard,” a review of Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000, by Alan Dershowitz, in NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, July 13, 2001

“Questioning America,” a review of Moral Freedom, by Alan Wolfe, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, June 25, 2001, pp. 34-37

“Virtue and Poverty,” a review of Fighting Poverty with Virtue, by Joel Schwartz, in THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Summer 2001, pp. 116-120

“Complex, my Dear Holmes,” a review of Law without Values, by Albert W. Alschuler, in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, May 25, 2001, p. 14

“Puppy Love,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE, March 8, 2001

“Ethicism,” a review of Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, by Andrew Stark, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, March 5, 2001, pp. 40-44

 

2000

“Freedom and the Vulnerabilities of Virtue,” in 45 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE 51 (2000), pp. 55-63

“Sweet and Lowdown,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE, Dec. 4, 2000

“Nutty Professors,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Nov. 27, 2000, pp. 1-12

“And Lofty Flowed the Don,” a review of The Cunning of Unreason, by John Dunn, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Nov. 13, 2000, pp. 42-45

“Wooed by Freedom?” a review of Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar, ed. Amy Kass and Leon Kass, in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Oct. 2000, pp. 128-133

“Sensitivity Isn't Enough,” a review of Virtue, Reason, and Toleration, by Glen Newey, in THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, Sept. 7, 2000, pp. 17-18

“Easy Virtue,” a review of Sovereign Virtue, by Ronald Dworkin, in NATIONAL REVIEW, August 28, 2000, pp. 43-45

“Liberty at War with Itself?” a review of In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain, by Desmond King, in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, August 25, 2000, p. 28

“The Futility of Utility,” a review of Law and Social Norms, by Eric A. Posner, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 5, 2000, pp. 38-44

“A Dramatic Struggle Over Self-Definition,” a review of The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul, by Yoram Hazony, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, June 1, 2000, p. A20

“Giving Liberalism Its Due,” Institute of United States Studies, University of London, 2000

“Hobbes and Rousseau in Israel,” a commentary, in The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, ed. Michael Walzer (Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 497-500

“The Principle Problem,” a review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 20, 2000, pp. 27-31

“Liberalism's Discontents,” a review of The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control, ed. Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 21, 2000, pp. 33-35

“Other People's Mothers,” a review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, by Peter Singer, and Practical Ethics, 2nd edition, by Peter Singer, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Jan. 10, 2000, pp. 27-37

 

1999

“Response and Restatement,” in Symposium: Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism, in the YALE JOURNAL OF ETHICS, Dec. 1999, pp. 5-15

“Feminism vs. Multiculturalism? The Liberal Project at Odds with Itself,” a review of Is Multiculturalism bad for Women?, by Susan Moller Okin and respondents, ed. Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Nov. 1, 1999, pp. 40-43

“Reduction and Betrayal,” a review of The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, by Richard A. Posner, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August 23, 1999, pp. 38-45

“A Measure of Compassion,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August 16, 1999, pp. 26-27

“The Pearl Diver,” a review of The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social, by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 14, 1999, pp. 44-52

“Fair Harvard,” in the HARVARD CRIMSON, May 26, 1999, p. 8

“The Good Fight,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 10, 1999, pp. 20-21

“Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places,” a review of Monica's Story, by Andrew Morton in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, April 26, 1999, pp. 48-49

“Beyond Victimhood,” a review of A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America, by Shelby Steele, in COMMENTARY, Feb. 1999, pp. 66-67

 

1998

“Mill: Virtue, Liberty, and the Discipline of Individuality,” in Mill and the Moral Character of Liberalism,ed. Eldon Eisenach (Penn State University Press, 1998), pp. 13-47

“Toward a More Complex Liberalism,” a review of The Virtues of Liberalism, by James Kloppenberg, in THE BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, Oct. 1998, p. 25

“Fear and Thinking,” a review of Political Thought and Political Thinkers, by Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann, and Redeeming Political Thought, by Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 13, 1998, pp. 34-39

“Can Liberalism be Saved?” a review of Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America, by Richard Rorty, in COMMENTARY, June 1998, pp. 75-78

“The Reason of Revelation,” a review of Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought, by Leo Strauss, ed. Kenneth Hart Green, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, May 25, 1998, pp. 31-34

A review of Free Markets and Social Justice, by Cass R. Sunstein, in the AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, March 1998, pp. 213-214

A review of The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Kathleen Higgins and Bernd Magnus, in THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, March, 1998, pp. 340-342

 

1997

“Liberalism Strikes Back,” a review of The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity,by Alain Renaut, trans. M.B. DeBevoise and Franklin Philip, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Dec. 15, 1997, pp. 32-37

“Between Principles: Liberal Democracy and the Communitarian Challenge,” in Democracy: The Challenges Ahead, ed. Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman (London: MacMillan, 1997), pp. 19-29

“Saving Liberalism's Soul,” a review of The Growth of the Liberal Soul, by David Walsh, in FIRST THINGS, Nov. 1997, pp. 47-52

“The Politic Moralist,” a review of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics, by Ruth W. Grant, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Sept. 1, 1997, pp. 36-40

“Thou Shalt not Kill,” a review of The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, by Regina M. Schwartz, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 23, 1997, pp. 41-45

“Beyond Pangloss,” a review of Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as Charity of the Wise, by Patrick Riley, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, April 7, 1997, pp. 38-41

“The Styles Modern Politics,” a review of The Politics of Faith & the Politics of Scepticism, by Michael Oakeshott, in FIRST THINGS, April 1997, pp. 38-42

A review of Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith, in THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Spring 1997, p. 103

 

1996

“The Debating Society,” a review of Democracy and Disagreement, by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Nov. 25, 1996, pp. 36-42

“Liberalism's Virtue,” in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, Fall 1996, pp. 183-191

“The Arrogance of Compassion,” a review of The Politics of Meaning, by Michael Lerner, in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, Sept. 19, 1996, pp. 59-61

“Science Fiction: Postmodernism Exposed,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 1, 1996, pp. 15-16

“The Art of Association,” a review of The Fragility of Freedom, by Joshua Mitchell, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 24, 1996, pp. 44-49

“The Religion of Democracy,” a review of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, by Alan Ryan, in THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Winter 1996, pp. 133-139

 

1995

“Communitarian Criticisms and Liberal Lessons,” a review of Communitarianism and its Critics, by Daniel A. Bell, Looking Backward, by Derek Phillips, and Liberals and Communitarians, by Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift, in THE RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY, Fall 1995, pp. 54-64

“Friends of Liberalism Should be Grateful,” a review of Passions and Constraint, by Stephen Holmes, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, Sept. 1995, pp. 5-6

“Rediscovering Liberalism,” a review of An Intellectual History of Liberalism, by Pierre Manent, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, March 1995, pp. 12, 14

 

1994

“Liberal Zealotry,” a review of The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, by Stephen Holmes, 103 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1363 (1994), pp. 1363-1382

“Nietzsche's Ethics of History,” in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Winter 1994, pp. 6-27

 

1993

A review of We the People, Vol. 1: Foundations, by Bruce Ackerman, in EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES, Summer 1993, pp. 692-697

 

1992

“Rabin's Victory and the Revitalization of the Israeli Center,” a Hudson Briefing Paper, no. 147, Dec. 1992

 

1991

“The Correspondence of I and Thou,” a review of The Letters of Martin Buber, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr, trans. Richard and Clara Winston and Harry Zohn, in THE FORWARD, 20 Nov. 1992, pp. 9, 11

A review of Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism, by Bruce Detwiler, in POLITICAL THEORY, Nov. 1991, pp. 683-687

“Toward a Feminist Orthodoxy,” a review of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, by Catharine MacKinnon, 3 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE HUMANITIES 301 (1991), pp. 301-314

 

1990

“On the Laws Governing Free Spirits and Philosophers of the Future,” 100 YALE LAW JOURNAL 701 (1990), pp. 701-722

 

1989

“Reconstructing Nietzsche as Progressive,” a review of Nietzsche and Political Thought, by Mark Warren, in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Fall 1989, pp. 623-628