Summer 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note: Pressing On
Review 3 July 2011
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Ancient Virtues in a Postmodern World
a review by - Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century by Howard Gardner. Basic Books, 2011, 244 pp., $26.
Review 10 July 2011
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Individual and Community—and God
a review by - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009.
Essay 10 July 2011
Otto von Habsburg (20 November 1912–4 July 2011)Review 17 July 2011
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What’s the Supreme Court Supposed to Do?
a review by - The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2008 by Lucas A Powe, Jr. Harvard University Press (Cambridge and London), 432 pages, paper $19.95, 2011.
Review 24 July 2011
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What was the Enlightenment?
a review by - A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010). Pages xiv, 276.
Essay 31 July 2011
Review 7 August 2011
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Forgotten Name, Enduring Legacy
a review by - Founding Federalist: The Life of Oliver Ellsworth by Michael C. Toth (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011). 240 pages, $25.
Review 14 August 2011
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Directions Back to the Public Square
a review by - Exiting a Dead End Road: A GPS for Christians in Public Discourse edited by Gudrun and Martin Kugler (Vienna, Austria: Kairos Publishing, 2010), paper, 353 pp. (introduction and table of contents available here).
The Classics Revisited 21 August 2011
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Bottom Rail on Top
by - Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son by William Alexander Percy (Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), 348 pp.
Review 11 September 2011
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Love and Evil in Nazi Germany
a review by - In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larsen (Crown, 2011). 464 pages, $26.
Symposium 18 September 2011
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Metternich vs. McEmpire
by - Symposium: Conservatism and Empire
Symposium 18 September 2011
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Empire and the Crisis of American Conservatism
by - Symposium: Conservatism and Empire
Symposium 18 September 2011
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How the GOP swallowed the Conservative Movement
by - Symposium: Conservatism and Empire
Symposium 18 September 2011
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And the Tragedy Continues
by - Symposium: Conservatism and Empire
Review 25 September 2011
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A Child’s Imagination is a Terrible Thing to Waste
a review by - Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen (ISI Books, November 2010), 320 pp., $26.95.
On Essays and Letters 25 September 2011
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Old Roads and Montesquieu’s Library
by - On Essays and Letters
