Imposing Utopia
by Thomas Fleming
Concealing despotism.

VIEWS

Cincinnatus, Call the Office!
by Clyde Wilson
Public service versus the American System.

Judging for the People
by Stephen B. Presser
Democracy, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution.

Democracy: The Enlightened Way
by Claude Polin
The your-fault society.

REVIEWS

A Government We Deserve
by H.A. Scott Trask

Sean Wilentz: The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

plus

Clark Stooksbury on Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons

Gregory J. Sullivan on Linda Greenhouse's Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey and Joan Biskupic's Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

Jack Trotter on William Baldwin's A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death

Thomas Fleming on Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Germany: Democratizing Germany: Paving the Way for Hitler
by Josef Schüsslburner

Letter From Greece: Talking About Conservatism:
The Politics of Guilt
by Nikos Hidiroglou

Letter From New Orleans: Six Months After Katrina
by Russell Desmond

VITAL SIGNS

LIFE: The Courage to Defy Prudence
by Christopher Check

TECHNOLOGY: The Age of Verification
by Marian Kester Coombs

COLUMNS

THE BARE BODKIN
by Joseph Sobran

HERESIES
by Aaron D. Wolf

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
V for Vendetta, Thank You for Smoking
by George McCartney

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
POETRY
Revival by Peter Dalton

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.  Additional inside illustrations by Elizabeth Wolf and Nicholas Garrie.