Features

Checks, Balances, and Wartime Detainees
The Supreme Court mediates as Congress abdicates
Benjamin Wittes

Security Beyond Borders
An unheralded success in transatlantic relations
Leslie Lebl

Marriage and the Limits of Contract
A libertarian case
Jennifer Morse

The Politics of Literacy
When reading skills become a national issue
David Davenport, Jeffrey M. Jones

Books

Laws of Nations
Peter Berkowitz on A New World Order by Anne-Marie Slaughter and The Limits of International Law by Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner and Law without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States by Jeremy A. Rabkin
Peter Berkowitz

The Scholar-Soldiers
Henrik Bering on Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces by Linda Robinson
Henrik Bering

Bleak Farm
Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer on Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia by Sterling F. Delano
Sabrina Schaeffer

Man and God in France
Timothy Lehmann on La République, les religions, l’espérance by Nicolas Sarkozy
Timothy Lehmann