Government Books & Reviews

How to Fight Terrorism

Daniel Byman | Mar 01, 2005
Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.

Night and Fog

Martin Walker | Dec 01, 2004
Alan Furst recreates the atmosphere of Europe's second Dark Ages (1933-45) as few others have. Today, Western civilization is again under attack, and Furst can teach us a great deal.

Recovering Our Nerve

Niall Ferguson | Jun 01, 2004
"Getting the wind up", is an old British expression for panicking.

Prudence and the Prince

Fred E. Baumann | Jun 01, 2004
Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

Leon Aron | Mar 01, 2004
A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Bad Laws Make Bad Judges

Fred C. Ikle | Mar 01, 2004
Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

John Lukacs | Sep 01, 2003
A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

Burying Nikita

Susan Eisenhower | Mar 01, 2003
William Taubman's biography of Chairman Khrushchev combines original research and good sense to produce the best last word so far on the late Soviet leader.

The Beginning of Economic Wisdom

Michael Novak | Mar 01, 2003
Two primers on economics reveal a lingering philosophical divide in the intellectual imagination of our time.

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