March/April 2013
Editorial
Reality’s Hour
Front Lines
Anti-Imperial Presidency
A 19th-century model for the right foreign policy
Don’t Break the China
We need Beijing as an ally against anarchy.
Burke Not Buckley
The case for community-centric conservatism
Cover Story
The GOP’s Vietnam
How Republican foreign policy lost the culture war—and a generation
Articles
How Social Darwinism Made Modern China
A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom.
What Texas Won’t Teach
U.S. history takes a back seat to race, class, and gender
Beyond Fox News
Meet the post-movement conservatives.
Sex After Christianity
Gay marriage isn’t just a social revolution but a cosmological one.
Commentary
Pope Benedict’s Farewell
Why Marriage Equality Is Right
Escape From the EU
Look Homeward, Devil
The tenth anniversary of a little book about the America overshadowed by war: Dispatches From the Muckdog Gazette.
Gulf States Buy Egyptian Riots
Is Saudi money undermining Cairo’s Morsi government?
Arts & Letters
Spain’s Leftist Civil War
The Spanish Civil War, Stanley Payne, Cambridge, 268 pages
Greatness Visible
Selected Letters of William Styron, R. Blakeslee Gilpin and Rose Styron, eds., Random House, 704 pages
How Do You Say “Quagmire” in French?
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall, Random House, 839 pages
Austrians Don’t Blow Bubbles
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle, Harry C. Veryser, ISI Books, 328 pages
The Man Who Put Europe in Order
Castlereagh: A Life, John Bew, Oxford University Press, 722 pages
Never Mind Humanity
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Ray Kurzweil, Viking, 352 pages
Whole Foods’ Better Business
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, John Mackey and Raj Sisodia, Harvard Business Review Press, 368 pages
