Features

Iraq Is Not Vietnam
A pernicious equivalence
Fredrick Kagan

What Is “Cruel and Unusual”?
Eighth Amendment jurisprudence is a train wreck
Benjamin Wittes

China’s Quest for Asia
Beijing fills a vacuum
John Tkacik, Dana Dillon

Making Democracy Stick
First, identify the obstacles to stability
Gerard Alexander

On the Disposal of Dictators
The problem of the tyrant’s corpse
Victor Matus

Books

Too Few Good Men
Amy L. Wax on Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas and American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle
Amy Wax

Churchill’s Workshop
Henrik Bering on In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War by David Reynolds
Henrik Bering

Democratizing the Constitution
Peter Berkowitz on Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution by Stephen Breyer
Peter Berkowitz