Notable Essay:

Crisis in Europe by Bruce Bawer (The Hudson Review, Vol. 58, No. 4, Winter 2006).

Discusses the lack of liberty-mindedness in Europe, particularly among European intellectuals and Europe's Muslim immigrants. Bawer is the author of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within.

The American Interest, Volume 1, Number 3, Spring 2006.

Notable Essay:

Civil Society at The Second Draft by Richard Landes and Pedro Zúquete.

An introduction to the concept of civil society (and its relationship to pre-modern / traditional / aristocratic / agricultural / hiearchical societies). The Second Draft website has many insightful essays, many of a general nature providing a philosophical framework for understanding political disputes, in addition to those particularly related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. See also Richard Landes' blog Augean Stables.

First Things, Number 162, April 2006.

Notable essays:

• Theology’s Continental Captivity by R.R. Reno.
  [Discusses differences between analytic philosophy and continental philosophy.]


• Iraq: Then & Now by George Weigel.
  [Discusses the Iraq war in the context of just war theory; opposes those who (mis)use just war theory to oppose the Iraq war.]