Misunderestimating Bush
A Republican electoral realignment would have to challenge the premises of liberal Democratic government.
From the Editor's Desk
Misunderestimating Bush
A Republican electoral realignment would have to challenge the premises of liberal Democratic government.
Book Reviews
Reagan’s Triumph
Historical argument over the Cold War is a proxy for the fight over fundamental political principles.
Interests Have Consequences, Too
The British experience suggests that, to be effective, ideas must be complemented by other kinds of causal accounts.
The Reluctant Empire
That Americans have so far avoided the imperial temptation is much to their credit, but this has not been without cost.
Wilson’s New World Disorder
The tension between internationalists and isolationists in American foreign policy is not new.
Honor’s Call
Krause has restored honor to its honorable place in our understanding of liberal theory and practice.
Against Reason
For McMahon, modernity is an ongoing battle between Enlightenment progress and Counter-Enlightenment reaction.
The Sage of Philadelphia
Morgan and Srodes go along way toward rescuing Franklin from the oft inanity of his modern portrayal.
Bully!
Can Brands and Morris help us judge whether the T.R. revival is good for our republican institutions?
Reading Woodrow Wilson
Pearson acknowledges both the radical nature of Wilson's arguments and their grounding in German idealism and historicism.
Our Enemy, The State?
Like Reagan, Twight understands freedom in opposition to dependency upon government.
Courting the New Deal
White dispels the powerful, simplistic New Deal myth that obscures our actual constitutional history.
Putting the Fight Back in Federalism
Federalism is endangered by an eclipse of state institutions and of the messy but salutary political culture that once sustained them.
Federalism’s Nemesis
Federalism is dead, and the 17th Amendment killed it.
Natural Right and Biotechnology
The coming debates over biotechnology will test the strength of the moral-sense tradition.
Shameless Injustice
The death penalty rests on a moral judgment about good and evil, responsibility and blame.
To Be Young, Conservative, and Cool
Young conservatives are already right. What they need is an up-to-the minute lesson in how to be cool.
Star-Spangled Snobbery
An examination of American snobbery.
How the Confederates Won
The great tragedy of Civil War memory is that the emancipationist account of the war was sacrificed to reconciliation in alliance with white supremacy.
Essays
War At Last?
President Bush must commit to war and kill the causes of terrorism.
John Quincy Adams on the War We Are In
"Old Man Eloquent" saw the Islamic threat coming.
Why the Election of 1912 Changed America
Four candidates and the struggle for the soul of constitutional government.
Seth Benardete, 1930-2001
In memory of a philosopher.
Books in Brief
Correspondence
The Dandy
A primer on proper attire that will leave you at once satisfied and stupefied.