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THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Volume 53 1991 Editor: Donald P. Kommers Managing Editor: Dennis Wm Moran Book Review Editor: Walter Nicgorski Issued each January, April, July and October Opinions expressed in the articles printed in THE Review oF Potitics are those of the authors alone and are not necessarily opinions held by the editors. Subscriptions: Institutional, $25.00 per year in the United States (Individual, $20.00); foreign, $28.00 (Individual, $23.00); single copies, $10.00 (domestic) and $12.00 (foreign). Entered as second-class matter, April 1, 1939, at the Post Office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556 Index of Articies, 1991 Philip Abbott, Are Three Generations ofR adicals Enough?: Self-Critique in the Novels of Tess Slesinger, Mary McCarthy and Marge Piercy ..........000000000ee0e0es ; J. Brian Benestad, Catholicism and American Public Philosophy Christopher Bruell, A Return to Classical Political Philosophy and the Understanding oft he American Founding Kenneth L. Deutsch and Walte: Nicgoski, Preface Gus diZerega, Elites and Democratic Theory: Insights from the Self-Organizing Model Hillel Fradkin, Philosophy and Law: Leo Strauss as a Student of Medieval Jewish Thought Robert P. George, The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz Dante Germino, Blasphemy and Leo Strauss’s Machiavelli .. John Gunnell, Strauss Before Straussianism: Reason, Revelation and Nature Donald W. Hanson, Reconsidering Hobbes’s Conventionalism Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman, Existentialism Politicized: Arendt’s Debt NN Seneca er aiebhal aa cet iela GN ddahs Ceeseideds vscevecesness , David R. Lachterman, Strauss Read from France ............ David Lawrence Levine, Without Malice But with Forethought: A Response to Burnyeat Thomas K. Lindsay, The “God-Like Man” versus the “Best Laws”: Politics and Religion in PIII cctidaiodcucta tceachGesaedetrecisasycsceccstscennsc es ‘ Nicholas Lobkowicz, Christianity and Culture Charles Lockhart, American Exceptionalism and Social Security: Complementary Cultural and Structural Contributions to Social Program Development . Robert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, National Socialism and the Project of Foundation Margaret Moore, Liberalism and the Ideal of the Good Life Gerhart Niemeyer, On Authority and Alienation: A Meditation David M. O’Brien, The Framers’ Muse on Republicanism, the Supreme Court, and Pragmus. Constitutional Interpretivism Thomas L. Pangle, On the Epistolary Dialogue Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin .. A. J. Parel, The Question of Machiavelli’s Modernity Mark P. Petracca, The Rational Choice Approach to Politics: A Challenge to Deomcratic David Schaefer, Leo Strauss and American Democracy: A Response to Wood and Holmes James V. Schall, S.J., A Latitudfeo r Statesmanship?: Strauss on St. Thomas Susan Shell, Meier on Strauss and Schmitt Steven B. Smith, Leo Strauss: Between Athens and Jerusalem Nathan Tarcov, On a Certain Critique of “Straussianism” Aristide Tessitore, Euripides’ Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness Stewart Umphrey, Natural Right and Philosophy Thomas G. West, Leo Strauss and the American Founding Index of Book Reviews, 1991 Bireley, Robert, The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellian or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe (Dante Germino) Blum, Lawrence A., and VictorJ . Seidler, Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism (Mary G. Dietz) Braunthal, Gerard, Political Loyalty and Public Service in West Germany: The 1972 Decree against Radicals and Its Consequences (Arthur B. Gunlicks) Ceasar, James W., Liberal Democracy & Political Science (Kirk Emmert) Condren, Conal, George Lawson’s Politica and the English Revolution (Stephen M. Fallon) Emmert, Kirk, Winston S. Churchill on Empire (James W. Muller) Ferry, Luc, Rights--The New Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns (Catherine Zuckert) Franco, Paul, Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Wendell John Coates, Jr.) ... Goldwin, Robert A., Why Blacks, Women, and Jews Are Not Mentioned in the Constitution and Other Unorthodox Views (Kent A. Kirwan) Hardin, Charles M., Constitutional Reform in America (Douglas W. Kmiec) Heslep, Robert D., Education in Democracy: Education’s Moral Role in the Democratic State (Henry C. Johnson, Jr.) Honderich, Ted, Conservatism (KevinJ . Smant) Kruks, Sonia, Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity, and Society (Kerry H. Whiteside) Kukathas, Chandran, Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Edward J. Harpham) McCoy, Charles N. R., On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy: Essays (A. J. Beit- zinger) McCoy, Drew R., The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (Alan Gibson) McElroy, Robert W., The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray (J. Brian Benestad) MacKinnon, Catherine A., Toward a Feminist Theory of the State( Jean Bethke Elshtain) Manicas, Peter T., War and Democracy (Elliot Bartky) Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr., Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Executive Power (Glen E. Thurow) Melzer, Arthur M., The Natural Goodness of Man: On the System of Rousseau’s Thought (Christopher Kelly) Nagel, Robert F., Constitutional Cultures: The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review (James R. Stoner, Jr.) Nicholson, Peter P., The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists: Selected Studies (Wil- liam B. Gwyn) Peters, Ronald M., Jr., The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective (John Brademas) . és Pflanze, Otto, Bismarck and the Development of Germany (Theodore S. Hamerow) Sandoz, Ellis, Government ofL aws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding (Gary D. Glenn) Schwartz, Thomas Alan, America’s Germany: John J.M cCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.) ............... Shanley, Mary Lyndon, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England (Jean Bethke Elshtain) Shuger, Debra Kuller, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics and the Dominant Culture (Gerard Wegemer) Smith, Paige, Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America (Alven M. Neiman) Sparr, Arnold, To Promote, Defend and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960 (David L. Salvaterra) Stanlis, PeterJ .,E dmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution (Francis Canavan) Thompson, Judith Jarvis, The Realm of Rights (Mark Tushnet) . Thorne, Melvin J., American Conservative Thought Since World War II: The Core Ideas (Kevin J. Smant) Tinder, Glenn, Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation (Neal Riemer) Velkley, Richard L., Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundations of Kant’s Critical Philosophy (Patrick J. C. Powers) Vipond, Robert C., Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution (Alec Stone) Waligorski, Conrad P., Political Theory of Conservative Economists (Peter Minowitz) Walker, Graham, Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Au- gustinian Prospects (Gregory Bassham) Wattenberg, Martin P., The Rise ofC andidate-Centered Politics: Presidential Elections of the 1980s (Samuel B. Hoff) Weigel, George, Catholicism and the Renewal ofA merican Democracy (J. Brian Benestad) Wilshire, Bruce, Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity and Alienation (Alven M. Neiman) Winch, Peter, Simone Weil: “The Just Balance” (Mary G. Dietz) . >