Features

Leviathan Then And Now
The latter-day importance of Hobbes’s masterpiece
Peter Berkowitz

The Futility of Class Warfare
Why “us” versus “them” doesn’t sell
Bradley Schiller

The Need for Missile Defense
Dangerous states with big ambitions
Peter Brookes

How the Soviet System Cracked
Shifting incentives, miscalculation at the top
Paul R. Gregory

Books

The Irish Prophet
Henrik Bering on Edmund Burke: Volumes I & II by F.P. Lock
Henrik Bering

Fighting Words
Craig S. Lerner on A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by Jim Webb
Craig Lerner

One Side Only
Benjamin Wittes on The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Benjamin Wittes

007, Defanged
Liam Julian on Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
Liam Julian

Iraq, Round Three
Victor Davis Hanson on Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope by Michael Yon and Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search For a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson.
Victor Davis Hanson