Fewer Bases, More Baseball 
By Daniel McCarthy
Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism by Bill Kauffman

Left-wing and a Prayer PDF
By Darryl Hart
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right by E.J. Dionne Jr

Israel’s Lawyers PDF
By Michael C. Desch
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller

Apatow’s Ensemble PDF
By Steve Sailers
Jason Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”



Liberty’s Last Dance 
By James P. Pinkerton
Happy Birthday, Mr. Jefferson.

Tehran Trip Wire PDF
By Patrick J. Buchanan
War Games With Iran

Détente in the Taiwan Strait PDF
By Daniel Larison
Taiwan Strait Talk



Mission Accomplished? 
May 1 will mark five years since George W. Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and triumphantly pronounced the “end of major combat operations.” Since then, we have incurred 97 percent of the war’s casualties and have spent an additional $473 billion, but Iraq still isn’t the beacon of freedom we were promised.