The False Evidence Against Scooter Libby (op-ed page version)
Apr. 7, 2015
Wall Street Journal
Debate Club
Feb. 2014
A review of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin
The New Criterion
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Heritage of Liberty
May 12, 2013
A review of Leading the Way: The Story of Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation by Lee Edwards
The Wall Street Journal
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Shawcross on Terror
Feb./Mar. 2012
A review of Justice and the Enemy: From the Nuremberg Trials to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, by William Shawcross
Policy Review
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Gordon Wood's America
Dec. 2011/Jan. 2012
A review of The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon Wood
Policy Review
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Religion in America
Oct./Nov. 2011
A review of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
Policy Review
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The Goldstone Mess
Apr./May. 2011
A review of The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss
Policy Review
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Thinking About Torture
Feb./Mar. 2011
A review of Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried
Policy Review
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One State?
Winter 2011
A review of What is a Palestinian State Worth? by Sari Nusseibeh
The Jewish Review of Books
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The Thinker
Nov. 5, 2010
A review of Reading Obama by James T. Kloppenberg
The Wall Street Journal
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The Cheshire Cat Conservative
Oct./Nov. 2010
A review of Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus, edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball
Policy Review
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The Lawyering of War
Feb./Mar. 2010
A review of The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective by Michael Lewis, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Corn, Victor Hansen, Richard Jackson and James Schoettler
Policy Review
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Alive and Well
Dec. 28, 2009
A review of Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism by George H. Nash
The Weekly Standard
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Reagan's Candid Way
Oct./Nov. 2009
A review of The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989 by Steven F. Hayward
Policy Review
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Conserving
Aug./Sept. 2009
A review of The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt
Policy Review
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God and John Rawls
June/July 2009
A review of A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith by John Rawls, edited by Thomas Nagel
Policy Review
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Bookends: 11/9 and 9/11
Fall 2008
A review of America Between the Wars‚ From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, and The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
World Affairs
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Peaceless
Aug./Sept. 2008
A review of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Policy Review
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Fighting Jihad
Apr./May 2008
A review of Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism by George Weigel
Policy Review
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On Toleration
Mar./Apr. 2008
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
The American Interest
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Exceptionally American
Feb./Mar. 2008
A review of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
Policy Review
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What Is a University for?
Dec. 2007/Jan. 2008
A review of Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman
Policy Review
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Democracy at Home
Oct. 22, 2007
A review of Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government by Michael Mandelbaum
The Weekly Standard
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American Creed
July 15, 2007
A review of Americanism: The Fourth Great American Religion by David Gelernter
The New York Post
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Spinoza's Religion
June/July 2007
A review of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
Policy Review
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New Media and Old
Feb./Mar. 2007
A review of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris
Policy Review
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Liberal Education, Then and Now
Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007
Essay 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.
Policy Review
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Partisan Freedom
Oct./Nov. 2006
A review of Whose Freedom: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
Policy Review
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Freedom at War
Sept. 18, 2006
A review of Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency by Richard A. Posner
The Weekly Standard
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War-Torn Democrats
Aug./Sept. 2006
A review of With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty, edited by 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
Policy Review
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Progressives for Growth
Apr./May 2006
A review of The Moral Consequences of Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman and The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity by Gene Sperling
Policy Review
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Literature in Theory
Feb./Mar., 2006
A review of Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral
Policy Review
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Executive Muscle
Jan. 15, 2006
A review of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 by John Yoo
The New York Post
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Democracy's Challenge
2005
An introduction to Democracy Dialogues, a Web site produced and maintained by the US Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs
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Introduction
2005
Introduction to Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases
Hoover Institution Press
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Laws of Nations
Apr./May 2005
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
Policy Review
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Demography and Security in Israel
June 5, 2004
[This originally appeared in the June 14 issue under a title that inadvertently encouraged opinions about the issue at variance with the tone and argument of the article.]
The Weekly Standard
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Liberalism and School Choice
2003
Contribution to The Future of School Choice, edited by Paul Peterson
pp. 107-131
Hoover Institution Press
Reasonable Doubts
Dec. 15, 2002
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
p. BW04
The Washington Post
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Byron at Ground Zero
Nov. 4, 2002
A review of Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism by George P. Fletcher
pp. 31-37
The New Republic
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Beyond Good and Evil
Aug. 18, 2002
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, translated by Ronald Taylor
p. BW15
The Washington Post
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After Autonomy
June 17, 2002
A review of Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice by William Galston
pp. 35-39
The Weekly Standard
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Liberal Education
May 20, 2002
A review of Charters, Vouchers and Public Education, edited by 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 and Dominic J. Brewer; and Schools, Vouchers and the American Public by Terry M. Moe
pp. 35-39
The Weekly Standard
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Jane Addams's Values
Mar. 25, 2002
A review of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain, and The Jane Addams Reader, edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain
pp. 36-38
The Weekly Standard
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Down to the Wire
July 27, 2001
A review of Deadlock by the political staff of The Washington Post; Bush v. Gore, edited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and William Kristol; 36 Days by correspondents of The New York Times; and The Perfect Tie by James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch
p. 27
The Times Literary Supplement
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Reckless Disregard, II
July 20, 2001
A review of The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose our President by Vincent Bugliosi
National Review (online exclusive)
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Reckless Disregard
July 13, 2001
A review of Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 by Alan Dershowitz
National Review (online exclusive)
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Ethicism
Mar. 5, 2001
A review of Conflict of Interest in American Public Life by Andrew Stark
pp. 40-44
The New Republic
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Sweet and Lowdown
Dec. 4, 2000
The New Republic (online exclusive)
Wooed by Freedom?
Oct. 2000
A review of Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar, edited by Amy Kass and Leon Kass
pp. 128-133
The Atlantic Monthly
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Easy Virtue
August 28, 2000
A review of Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin
pp. 43-45
National Review
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Liberty at War with Itself?
August 25, 2000
A review of In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain by Desmond King
p. 28
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hobbes and Rousseau in Israel
2000
A commentary in The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, edited by Michael Walzer
pp. 497-500
Yale University Press
Liberalism's Discontents
Feb. 21, 2000
A review of The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball
pp. 33-35
The Weekly Standard
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Other People's Mothers
Jan. 10, 2000
A review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation by Peter Singer, and Practical Ethics (2nd edition) by Peter Singer
pp. 27-37
The New Republic
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Response and Restatement
Dec. 1999
Symposium: Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism
pp. 5-15
The Yale Journal of Ethics
The Pearl Diver
June 14, 1999
A review of The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
pp. 44-52
The New Republic
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Beyond Victimhood
Feb. 1999
A review of A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America by Shelby Steele
pp. 66-67
Commentary
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Mill: Virtue, Liberty and the Discipline of Individuality
1998
in Mill and the Moral Character of Liberalism, edited by Eldon Eisenach
pp. 13-47
Penn State University Press
Fear and Thinking
July 13, 1998
A review of Political Thought and Political Thinkers by Judith N. Shklar, edited by Stanley Hoffmann; and Redeeming Political Thought by Judith N. Shklar, edited by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson
pp. 34-39
The New Republic
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The Reason of Revelation
May 25, 1998
A review of Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought by Leo Strauss, edited by Kenneth Hart Green
pp. 31-34
The Weekly Standard
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Book Review
Mar. 1998
A review of Free Markets and Social Justice by Cass R. Sunstein
pp. 213-214
The American Political Science Review
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Book Review
Mar. 1998
A review of The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, edited by Kathleen Higgins and Bernd Magnus
pp. 340-342
The Philosophical Review
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Liberalism Strikes Back
Dec. 15, 1997
A review of The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity by Alain Renaut, translated by M.B. DeBevoise and Franklin Philip
pp. 32-37
The New Republic
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Between Principles: Liberal Democracy and the Communitarian Challenge
1997
in Democracy: The Challenges Ahead, edited by Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman
pp. 19-29
London: MacMillan
The Politic Moralist
Sept. 1, 1997
A review of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics by Ruth W. Grant
pp. 36-40
The New Republic
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
June 23, 1997
A review of The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism by Regina M. Schwartz
pp. 41-45
The New Republic
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Beyond Pangloss
Apr. 7, 1997
A review of Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as Charity of the Wise by Patrick Riley
pp. 38-41
The New Republic
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Book Review
Spring 1997
A review of Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven B. Smith
p. 103
The Wilson Quarterly
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Liberal Zealotry
March 1994
A review of The Anatomy of Antiliberalism by Stephen Holmes
103, pp. 1363-1382
Yale Law Journal
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