May 2013

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  The Case for Drones

  By Kenneth Anderson

  
  

Articles

• "My Negro Problem-and Ours" at 50

  Norman Podhoretz

  Reflections on a controversial essay and its legacy.

• Gay Marriage, the Court, and Federalism

  Tara Helfman

  How the justices should decide.

• The Spirit of '75?

  Algis Valiunas

  An audacious, and wrong, argument about the American Revolution.

• In Praise of Sheryl Sandberg

  Christine Rosen

  The controversial Facebook executive's book is exactly the right kind of self-help.

Fiction

• Onto a Good Thing

  Joseph Epstein

  The short story for May

Politics & Ideas

• The Bureaucrat-Driven Life

  Heather Wilhelm

  A review of Cass Sunstein's Simpler

• The Making of an Education Reformer

  Sohrab Ahmari

  A review of Michelle Rhee's Radical

• Bork's Watergate

  James Rosen

  A review of Robert H. Bork's Saving Justice

• Dear Prudence

  Paul O. Carrese

  A review of Peter Berkowitz's Constitutional Conservatism 

• Whose Accomplishments?

  Mona Charen

  A review of Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World

Culture & Civilization

• The Parenting Trap

  Dana Mack

  A review of Bruce Feiler's The Secrets of Happy Families

• George Saunders, Anti-Minimalist

  Fernanda Moore

  For once, the hype surrounding a hip writer is deserved.

• A Chekhov in Training

  Terry Teachout

  Amy Herzog breaks through.

• What Ailes the Liberal Media?

  Andrew Ferguson

  Press Man

John Podhoretz

• Taking Obama's Foreign Policy Seriously

  John Podhoretz

  From the Editor

Threat Assessment

• More Genocide Threats from Iran

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Threat Assessment

Letters

• Denying Jewish Peoplehood-and Reality

  Our Readers

  Responses to Robert S. Wistrich's "The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism"

• Gun Laws, Crime, and Freedom

  Our Readers

  Responses to Benjamin Domenech's "The Truth About Mass Shootings and Gun Control"

• Don't Confuse Principle and Pose

  Our Readers

  Responses to Matthew Continetti's "Poseur Politics in the Era of Obama"

• Jews and Sports

  Our Readers

  Responses to Joseph Epstein's "This Jewish Sporting Life"

Enter Laughing

• The Night School Joke

  Our Joke for May