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ARTS & LETTERS Le Capital Capital in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty (Belknap/Harvard, 685 pages, $39.95) Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Reviewed by James Tiereson Thomas piketty...
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THE NATION'S PULSE Understating: the BudgetCrisis by James Piereson Lawrence summers published an article recently in the Financial Times asserting that U.S. federal spending will continue to...
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Bad, Bad Republicans If s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein...
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A Time for Choosing Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. An introduction to our special symposium. By James Piereson When the soviet empire collapsed 25 years ago, many...
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Is Liberalism Dead? No, not yet, not so long as it has the run of government and the programs it created to keep itself in power. By James Piereson Having written an article a year ago on the...
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Overlords of World War II When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first met Winston Churchill at the hastily arranged Placentia Bay conference in August 1941, he took an immediate...
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "American Government: Institutions and Policies" errors men have made and Thomas does it creditably . Those who took capitalism for granted and sought " higher moral values " may have indeed paved the way for the...
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