October 2012
Editorial
The Other Culture War
Front Lines
What’s So Special About Special Ops?
SEALs and Rangers are no answer to our military woes.
Two Cheers for Heresy on Global Warming
Climate change is a cycle—of faddish opinions
The Art of Trains
Rail offers a poetic way to watch the world
A Man Called Tubesteak
Farewell to the legendary Kahuna who christened Gidget
From Kennan to Trotsky
How the United States became a superpower of the left
Cover Story
Who Closed the American Mind?
Allan Bloom was brilliant, but wrong about Burke and multiculturalism
Modernism & Conservatism
Does the culture of “The Waste Land” lead to freedom—or something more?
Articles
Japan’s Bad Trade
Why won’t anyone talk about Tokyo’s auto protectionism?
007′s Masculine Mystique
James Bond is more than a glamorous womanizer.
Not Amish, But Close
A farmer puts Wendell Berry’s agrarian ideal to the test
Congress Cries War
When hawks roost on Capitol Hill, even Canada isn’t safe.
Return of the Kingsley
America gets reintroduced to the original Amis
Arts & Letters
A Stage Is the World
Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario
Obama’s Nerds
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, Sasha Issenberg, Crown, 357 pages
Who Was John Randolph?
John Randolph of Roanoke, David Johnson, LSU Press, 352 pages
The Spirit of Treason
Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason, Christina Shelton, Threshold, 352 pages
Swimming in Rhetoric
Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle To Obama, Sam Leith, Basic Books, 312 pages
Misjudging Rehnquist
The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist, John A. Jenkins, PublicAffairs, 320 pages
We Are Not All Westerners Now
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn, Charles A. Kupchan, Oxford University Press, 272 pages
