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Book Reviews “Bookends:
11/9 and 9/11,” a review of 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the
Fall of the 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, in WORLD AFFAIRS, FALL 2008 “Peaceless,” a review of The Much Too
Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, by
Aaron David Miller, in POLICY REVIEW, Aug. and Sept. 2008 “Answering
Edward Said,” a review of Defending the West, by Ibn Warraq, in POLICY REVIEW,
June and July 2008 “After America: Fareed
Zakaria’s ‘Post-American World,’” in THE NEW YORK “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 “On
Toleration,” a review of Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to
“Accept Differences” Undermines Civil Society, Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the
Age of Identity and Empire,
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 “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 “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 “Contested
Authority,” a review of The Stillborn God, by Mark
Lilla, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, “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
“American
Creed,” a review of Americanism: The Fourth Great
American Religion, by David Gelernter, in THE NEW YORK POST, “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 “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 “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 “Against
Relativism,” a review
of Neoconservatism: Why we Need it, by Douglas Murray, in THE WEEKLY
STANDARD, “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 “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, “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 “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 “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 “Democratizing
the Constitution,” a review of Active Liberty: Interpreting our
Democratic Constitution, by Stephen Breyer, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec.
2005/Jan. 2006 “A Worthy War Critic,” a review of The
Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, in POLICY
REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 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 “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 “He is
Charlotte Simmons,” a
review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb.
and March 2005 “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 “Politicizing Reason,” a review of Reason: Why Liberals will win the “Tabloid
Scholarship,” a
review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne
Norton, in THE NEW YORK POST, Oct. 3, 2004 “Lubavitchers and
Liberals,” a review
of Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Jan
Feldman, in POLICY REVIEW, August and September 2004 “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 “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 “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 “Returning to Reason Reasonably,” a review of Return to Reason, by Stephen
Toulmin, in FIRST THINGS, August 1, 2002, p. 61 “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 “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 “Money and Love,” a review of Economic Sentiments, by Emma
Rothschild, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, Oct. 1, 2001, pp. 41-45 “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 “Ethicism,” a review of Conflict of Interest in American
Public Life, by Andrew Stark, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, March 5, 2001, pp.
40-44 “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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “Toward a
More Complex Liberalism,” a review of The Virtues of Liberalism, by James Kloppenberg,
in THE “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 “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 “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 Spinoza,
Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith, in
THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Spring 1997, p. 103 “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 “The
Arrogance of Compassion,” a review of The Politics of Meaning, by Michael Lerner, in THE
JERUSALEM REPORT, Sept. 19, 1996, pp. 59-61 “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 “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 “Liberal
Zealotry,” a review
of The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, by Stephen Holmes, 103 YALE LAW
JOURNAL 1363 (1994), pp. 1363-1382 A review
of We the People, Vol. 1:
Foundations, by Bruce Ackerman, in EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES,
Summer 1993, pp. 692-697 “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 “Reconstructing
Nietzsche as Progressive,” a review of Nietzsche and Political Thought, by Mark Warren,
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