"Good and Happy," review of Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon, and Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert, New Republic, 3 July 2006.
Essays
Unmanly Athletes
"Unmanly Athletes," Wall Street Journal, 19 June 2006.
A New Feminism
"A New Feminism," Imprimis, June 2006, reprinted in Society, January/February 2007.
The Debacle at Harvard
"The Debacle at Harvard," Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2006.
Stranger in a Strange Land
"Stranger in a Strange Land," review of American Vertigo, by Bernard-Henri Lévi, Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2006.
The Law and the President
"The Law and the President," Weekly Standard, 16 January 2006.
Democratic Greatness in the Founding
"Democratic Greatness in the Founding," Enlightening Revolutions: Essays in Honor of Ralph Lerner, Lexington Books, 2006.
Tocqueville’s New Political Science
"Tocqueville’s New Political Science," with Delba Winthrop, The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville, Cheryl B.Welch, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 81-107.
The People and Their Power
"The People and Their Power," review of The Rise of American Democracy, by Sean Wilentz, Wall Street Journal, 13 October 2005.
The Cost of Free Speech
"The Cost of Free Speech: In the Universities It's Almost as High as the Tuition," review of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, by Donald Alexander Downs, Weekly Standard, 3 October 2005.