Articles
Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?
The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time
by Lincoln Caplan
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
by David Bosco
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
by Sarah E. Mendelson
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
by Jill McCorkle
Balanchine’s Cabinet
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
by Ann Hagman Cardinal
Confluences
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins
by Jennifer Sinor
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Souls Hungering After Meaning
In Aegypt, John Crowley's just-completed four-book masterwork, ordinary people bear a faint symbolic glow through real and mythological realms
Michael Dirda
Book Reviews
The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
Ernest B. Furgurson
Latin’s Eminent Career
Is the language of empire, the church, scholarship, and Europe nearing retirement?
A. E. Stallings
A Long Walk in the New World
Of 300 Spaniards sent to settle Florida, only four survived