The race for second place.Jersey Boys 
W. James Antle III
The New Jersey Senate contest enters the twilight zone.
Gang Warfare
Matthew A. Roberts
Ganging up in the military
News
Fourteen Days:
Pennsylvania’s Verdict; Israel’s Spy Games; Pope vs. PrezDeep Background:
AEI’s Man in Iran
Columns
Liberty’s Last Dance
James P. Pinkerton
Happy Birthday, Mr. Jefferson.Tehran Trip Wire
Patrick J. Buchanan
War Games With Iran
Détente in the Taiwan Strait
Daniel Larison
Taiwan Strait Talk
Arts & Letters
Fewer Bases, More Baseball
Daniel McCarthy
Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism by Bill KauffmanLeft-wing and a Prayer
Darryl Hart
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right by E.J. Dionne Jr
Israel’s Lawyers
Michael C. Desch
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Apatow’s Ensemble
Steve Sailers
Jason Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”
Feature
Mission Accomplished?
May 1 will mark five years since George W. Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and triumphantly pronounced the “end of major combat operations.” Since then, we have incurred 97 percent of the war’s casualties and have spent an additional $473 billion, but Iraq still isn’t the beacon of freedom we were promised.
