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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY "Leviathan
Then and Now," in
Policy Review, Oct. and Nov. 2008 “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 “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 “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 “Contested
Authority,” a review of The Stillborn God, by Mark
Lilla, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, “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 “The
Conservative Mind,” in the “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 “Excommunication
for Thee…,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “The Longer Way,” in Why I Turned Right:
Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys, ed. Mary Eberstadt (Simon and Schuster, 2007) 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.) “Partisan Freedom,” a review of Whose Freedom: The Battle over America’s most Important Idea, George Lakoff, in POLICY REVIEW, Oct. and Nov. 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
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 “Democratizing
the Constitution,” a review of Active Liberty: Interpreting our
Democratic Constitution, by Stephen Breyer, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec.
2005/Jan. 2006 “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
“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 “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 “Tabloid
Scholarship,” a
review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne
Norton, in THE NEW YORK POST, “Liberalism
and Power,” in Beyond
Power and Paradise, ed. Tod Lindberg ( “Lubavitchers
and Liberals,” a
review of Lubavitchers as Citizens: A
Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Jan Feldman, in POLICY REVIEW, August and
September 2004 “The
Liberal Spirit in America,” in POLICY REVIEW, August and September 2003, pp. 29-47 “The
Demagoguery of Democratic Theory,” in CRITICAL REVIEW, vol. 15, nos. 1-2,
Winter-Spring 2003 “What hath
Strauss Wrought,” in
THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “The
Academic Liberal,” in
THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “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 “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 “John Rawls
and the Liberal Faith,”
in the “Giving
Sophistry a Bad Name,”
in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “Money and Love,” a review of Economic Sentiments, by Emma
Rothschild, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, “Questioning
America,” a review of
Moral Freedom, by Alan Wolfe, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, June 25, 2001,
pp. 34-37 “Virtue and
Poverty,” 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, “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 “Freedom
and the Vulnerabilities of Virtue,” in 45 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE 51 (
2000), pp. 55-63 “And Lofty Flowed the
Don,” a review of The
Cunning of Unreason, by John Dunn, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, “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, “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, “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 “Giving
Liberalism Its Due,”
Institute of “Hobbes and Rousseau in “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 “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, “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 “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 “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, “Thou Shalt not Kill,” a review of The Curse of Cain: The Violent
Legacy of Monotheism, by Regina M. Schwartz, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, “Beyond Pangloss,” a review of Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as Charity
of the Wise, by Patrick Riley, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, “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 “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, “The Art of
Association,” a
review of The Fragility of Freedom, by Joshua Mitchell, in THE NEW
REPUBLIC, “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 “Nietzsche's Ethics of
History,” in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Winter 1994, pp. 6-27 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 “On the
Laws Governing Free Spirits and Philosophers of the Future,” 100 YALE LAW JOURNAL 701 (1990), pp. 701-722 “Reconstructing
Nietzsche as Progressive,” a review of Nietzsche and Political Thought, by Mark Warren,
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