Features

The Financial Markets and Fear Itself
Why investor confidence plunged
Holman Jenkins

Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd
How to resist the weapon’s spread
Henry Sokolski

Underage Drinking and the Drinking Age
The Amethyst Initiative’s harmful remedy
Carla Main

Orwell’s Instructive Errors
The edifying commentator is also a flawed one
Liam Julian

Regulation and American Business
Increasing competitiveness by controlling red tape
Elsie Echeverri-Carroll, Sofía Ayala

The Dark Figure of Corruption
Crippling economies around the world
Claire Berlinski

Books

God and John Rawls
Peter Berkowitz on A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith by John Rawls edited by Thomas Nagel
Peter Berkowitz

Fighting Clever
Henrik Bering on The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 byThomas E. Ricks, Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan by David Loyn
Henrik Bering

Reagan's Place
James Kirchick on The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War byJames Mann
James Kirchick

Slamming Aid
Apoorva Shah on Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Apoorva Shah