CONTENTS 3 A Note on This Issue fall 2014 vol. 56, no. 4 R. V. Young A SYMPOSIUM ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 5 America the Supranational: Introduction Richard J. Bishirjian 7 Leo Strauss and the American Political Religion Richard J. Bishirjian 19 Promised Land: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Founding Era Walter A. McDougall 31 City of Globalists David Corbin 41 What U.S. Foreign Service Officers Should Know Angelo M. Codevilla 55 The Battle Hymn of the Republic and American Civil Religion Richard M. Gamble 65 James Monroe and the Sources of American Exceptionalism James P. Lucier POETRY 77 Fr. Gustave Depreitere Recollects Emeritus The Reluctant Thomist Teaches PHIL 101 William Bedford Clark REVIEWS 83 Cultural Contradictions of Scientism The Disunity of American Culture by John C. Caiazza Robert C. Koons 87 Louisiana Cosmopoesis The Fiddler of Driskill Hill by David Middleton Aaron Urbanczyk 91 Continental Freedom Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition, edited by Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire Meins G. S. Coetsier