Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness : Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books

Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys.;Progressivism and the liberal century -- Renewing conservatism -- The war we are in -- Statesmen and despots -- Current contentions -- The politics of culture -- Arts, literature, and leisure. Contents 6 Introduction 10 Part I: PROGRESSIVISM ANDTHE LIBERAL CENTURY 18 Taming Big Government 20 A Nicer Form of Tyranny 31 Why the Election of 1912 Changed America 36 FDR as Statesman 45 The Endless Party 54 Involuntary Associations 62 A Left-Handed Salute 67 Flights of Fancy 73 Part II. RENEWING CONSERVATISM 78 The Conservative Challenge 80 The Right Stuff 93 Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement 103 The Myth of the Racist Republicans 118 The Long Detour 125 Why Conservatives Lost the War of Ideas 132 The Conservative Cocoon 136 Tailgunner Ann 140 Part III. THE WAR WE ARE IN 144 Victory: What It Will Take to Win 146 War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity 161 Leo Strauss and American Foreign Policy 167 Democracy and the Bush Doctrine 176 Tribes of Terror 185 The Home Front: Left, Right, and (Elusive) Center 196 Theater of War 203 Why We Don’t Win 208 Intermezzo: A Portfolio of Illustrations from the Claremont Review of Books 224 Part IV. STATESMEN AND DESPOTS 260 Aristotle and Locke in the American Founding 262 Moral Monster 266 The Man Who Made Modern America 270 Three-Fifths Historian 276 How the Confederates Won 281 The Bicentennial Lincolns 285 Tyranny and Utopia 300 Thoughts and Adventures 306 The Greatness and Decline of American Oratory 315 Part V. CURRENT CONTENTIONS 324 Business as Usual 326 The Presidential Nomination Mess 328 Continental Drift 338 France’s Immigrant Problem—and Ours 349 Free to Use 357 All the Leaves Are Brown 360 Is Health Care a Right? 371 Part VI. HEARTS AND MINDS 376 Born American, But in the Wrong Place 378 The Crisis of American National Identity 384 The Debacle at Harvard 394 The Education Mill 397 Wimps and Barbarians 401 Against the Virtual Life 411 A Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time 416 The Three Rings 420 Part VII. ARTS, LITERATURE, AND LEISURE 424 Building Democracy 426 Pith and Pen 432 Man of Letters 435 Larry McMurtry and the American West 439 The Genius of Old New York 445 Aryan Sister 453 Is There Intelligent Life on Television? 459 Music, Philosophy, and Generation Y 468 Macbeth and the Moral Universe 472 Index 486 List of Contributors 510 List of Books Reviewed and Discussed* 514 Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys the range of issues addressed in the Claremont Review of Books first decade, from the conservative critique of American progressivism to foreign policy, politics, history, and culture. Liberally illustrated with art director Elliot Banfield's popular cartoons, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness provides the magazine's many devotees with a treasured keepsake of a tumultuous decade and will be of interest to all those who care about American politics and culture. Among the contributors are Hadley Arkes, Martha Bayles, the late William F. Buckley, Jr., Paul Cantor, James Ceaser, Joseph Epstein, Christopher Flannery, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, the late Jaroslav Pelikan, Joseph Tartakovsky, Michael Uhlmann, Algis Valiunas, William Voegeli, and the late James Q. Wilson. Collects essays by such writers as William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Brookheiser, covering the first decade of the conservative Claremont Review of Books