May 2012

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  JUNE PREVIEW: Who Will Defend the Defenders?

  By Mitchell D. Silber

  
  

Articles

• The Jigsaw Puzzle & the Chessboard

  Henry R. Nau

  The making and unmaking of foreign policy in the age of Obama.

• What the Evangelicals Give the Jews

  Michael Medved

  The true, and hidden, virtue of a controversial relationship.

• Three Days that Shook ObamaCare

  Tevi Troy

  An unexpected turn of events at the Supreme Court.

• The War Obama Wanted

  Alana Goodman

  How Democrats got the better of Republicans on contraception vs. religious liberty.

• Ryan's Hope

  James Pethokoukis

  Are the politics changing when it comes to reining in Medicare?

• Capital Offense

  Omri Ceren

  The Obama administration and its Jerusalem problem.

• Eisenhower and the End of Greatness

  Michael J. Lewis

  Frank Gehry's design doesn't know how to convey a singular truth.

• Deviated: A Memoir

  Jesse Kellerman

  A cautionary tale from the brave new world of health-care coverage.

Politics & Ideas

• Class Dismissed

  Jeff Jacoby

  A review of Jonathan D. Sarna's "When General Grant Expelled the Jews"

• The Closing of the American Nietzsche

  Charles M. Stang

  A review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's "American Nietzsche"

• In Tropes They Trust

  Jonathan Neumann

  A review of Jonah Goldberg's "The Tyranny of Clichés"

• Prudishness Lost

  Peter Lopatin

  A review of Faramerz Dabhoiwala's "The Origins of Sex"

Culture & Civilization

• Beloved by Whom?

  D.G. Myers

  Toni Morrison, master at seeming the master.

• The Incredible Shrinking Conductor

  Terry Teachout

  From Leonard Bernstein to . . . Alan Gilbert?

• Roth’s Complaint

  William Giraldi

  A review of "Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters," edited and translated by Michael Hofmann

• The Game Change Game

  Andrew Ferguson

  Failing up and writing down.

John Podhoretz

• Culture Warrior in Chief

  John Podhoretz

  From the editor.

Threat Assessment

• The Iran Leakfest

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Threat Assessment

Letters

• Taking the Jewish Vote for Granted

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Jonathan S. Tobin's “Jews, Money, and 2012"

• Bickel and Judicial Restraint

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Adam J. White's "The Lost Greatness of Alexander Bickel"

• Objectivity and the Haredim

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Mati Wagner's "The Ultra-Orthodox on the Warpath"

• What About the Urban Poor?

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan's "American Mobility"

Enter Laughing

• The Lottery Joke

  Our joke for May