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Conservatism and the University Curriculum
The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2009
God and John Rawls
A review of A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith by John Rawls, edited by Thomas Nagel.
Policy Review, June/July 2009
His Liberal Hour
A review of The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe
The Weekly Standard, May 25, 2009
Pragmatism Obama Style
The Weekly Standard, May 4, 2009
The Aesthetic Urge
A review of The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton
Policy Review, Apr./May 2009
Downwind from Iran: Why They're Nervous in the Gulf
The Weekly Standard, Apr. 6, 2009
Waltzing Among the Rockets
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 16, 2009
A Contribution to "Stanley Fish and The Storm in Ottawa: Seven Professors Say What They Think"
MindingtheCampus.com, Feb. 10, 2009
Questions for Obama on National Security Law
Forbes.com, Feb. 4, 2009
Constitutional Conservatism
Policy Review, Feb./Mar. 2009
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Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 31, 2009
Conservatives Can Unite Around the Constitution
The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2, 2009
2008
The European Left and Ours
Policy Review, Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009
Supposing Obama Were a Bipartisan
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 17, 2008
Towering Ivories
A review of Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 3, 2008
Are Universities Above the Law?
The Weekly Standard, Oct. 27, 2008
Power Misdirected
The Hoover Digest, Fall 2008
Leviathan Then and Now
Policy Review, Oct./Nov. 2008
Bookends: 11/9 and 9/11
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, Fall 2008
Debates Should Be More than Sound Bites
POLITICO, Oct. 1, 2008
An Unfortunate Israeli Export
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 29, 2008
Plans for Mideast Peace: U.N. Reform Needed for Palestinian Refugees
The Washington Times, Aug. 5, 2008
Peaceless
A review of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2008
Answering Edward Said
A review of Defending the West by Ibn Warraq
Policy Review, June/July 2008
After America: Fareed Zakaria's 'Post-American World'
The New York Sun, Apr. 30, 2008
Is Neoconservatism Jewish?
Sm'ma, Apr. 2008
Fighting Jihad
A review of Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism by George Weigel
Policy Review, Apr./May 2008
The Persistence of Religion
A
review of A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
The Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2008
The Iranian Threat Won't Just Go Away
The Jerusalem Report, Mar. 18, 2008
Teaching The Federalist in South Korea
National Review Online, Feb. 29, 2008
The Neocons and Iraq
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
The American Interest, Mar./Apr. 2008
Exceptionally American
A review of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
Policy Review, Feb./Mar. 2008
Ehud Olmert's Israel
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 4, 2008