articles * essays * reviews
Netanyahu Surprises at 10th Annual Herzliya Conference
Pajamasmedia.com, Feb. 4, 2010
The Lawyering of War
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, Feb./Mar. 2010
The New Progressivism: Same as the Old Progressivism?
Pajamasmedia.com, Jan. 21, 2010
The Message from Massachusetts
Politico, Jan. 19, 2010
Blaming Israel First
The Weekly Standard, Jan. 18, 2010
2009
Alive and Well
A review of Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism by George H. Nash
The Weekly Standard, Dec. 28, 2009
Breakdown in the Academy
A review of The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand
Policy Review, Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010
Going Backwards in Beirut
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 30, 2009
Academia Goes Silent on Free Speech
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 2009
Reagan's Candid Way
A review of The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989 by Steven F. Hayward
Policy Review, Oct./Nov. 2009
Obama's Middle East Gambit
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 28, 2009
A Exaggerated Death
A review of The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus
National Review Online, Sept. 3, 2009
He's No Ronald Reagan
The Weekly Standard, Aug. 10, 2009
Conserving
A review of The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2009
Moderation is No Vice
A review of Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin
The Weekly Standard, July 27, 2009
Obama's Empathy Test
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), July 13, 2009
Bibi's Choice
The Weekly Standard, July 13, 2009
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