From the Editor's Desk
Why We Fight
What will be the shape of our victory?
Essays
The Return of Public Seriousness
Andrew E. Busch limns the unintended effects of September 11 on American domestic politics.
Know Your Enemy
Those Hell-Hounds Called Terrorists
Harvey C. Mansfield reflects on the place of terror in modern politics and political theory.
Duty, Honor, Country
On the importance of military virtues in preserving our republican institutions.
72 Black-Eyed Virgins?
Yotam Feldner takes a closer look at the Islamic debate on a martyr's reward.
Victory: What it Will Take to Win
Angelo M. Codevilla explains how to win - and how not to win - America's War on Terrorism.
Book Reviews
Preparing for the War After the War on Terrorism
Why Americans should be concerned with the Quadrennial Defense Review
The Bacterium That Changed History
Consider this: 650 years after that tidal wave of mortality that became known in English-speaking countries as "the Black Death," the word "plague" remains one of the most powerful in our language.
The Hitch with Hitchens
Few figures except the ghost of Joe McCarthy provoke the furies of the feverish Left more than Henry Kissinger, so this book should preserve Hitchens's club memberships on the Upper West Side.
Friends & Enemies
Waging Modern War, by retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, is a fascinating account of coalition warfare: NATO's 1999 war against Yugoslavia in Kososvo.
Between Heaven and Hell
Hamlet in Purgatory in many respects serves as the culmination of Greenblatt's long-term project as a cultural historian.
Books in Brief
The Other Terrorists
There was no "Rita Vogt," but there were many young women like her who joined the terrorist underground in the early 1970s in Germany, and from their remarkable lives this film has been composed.