Contents
The ‘Fatal Flaw’ of Internationalism:
Babbitt on Humanitarianism, 4
Richard M. Gamble
Democratizing the Constitution:
The Failure of the Seventeenth Amendment, 19
C. H. Hoebeke
Two Women in a Revolving Door,
Rose, Orrery, and Wishbone, 38
Poems by Heidy Anne Steidlmayer
Francis Lieber on the Sources of Civil Liberty, 40
Steven Alan Samson
The First to Fall into Sleep, 63
A poem by Marc Awodey
Reviews
Straussianism Descendant?
The Historicist Renewal, 64
Randall E. Auxier
Leo Strauss e la destra americana, by Germana Paraboschi. Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1993.
162 pp. L.25,000.
Origins of Nihilism: Actual and Alleged, 73
Jan Olof Bengtsson
Nihilism Before Nietzsche, by Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxiv+312 pp. $27.50 cloth. $15.95 paper.
God and the Constitution, 85
K. R. Constantine Gutzman
The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, by Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore. New York and London: Norton, 1996. 166 pp. $22 cloth.
The Tribalization of the Western Mind, 92
Wayne Allen
The Defeat of the Mind, by Alain Finkielkraut. Translated by Judith Friedlander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 165 pp. $22.95.
The Diorite Whales, 98
A short story by Michael O’Laughlin