The War President
The last thing George W. Bush wanted was to become a foreign policy president.
From the Editor's Desk
The War President
The last thing George W. Bush wanted was to become a foreign policy president.
Correspondence
Essays
The Myth of the Racist Republicans
The truth about the Southern Strategy.
The Democratic Party and the Politics of War
The demise of the happy warrior.
Heather’s Compromise
Settling for Mr. Right Now.
Book Reviews
One Last Card to Play
A review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo
Correspondent in Chief
A review of Reagan: A Life in Letters, edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson
Reagan in Sacramento
Lou Cannon is our most trustworthy source on Ronald Reagan, whether we agree with all his judgments or not.
Will They Ever Learn?
A review of Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, by Mona Charen
Infidelities
A review of Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach
Wages of Sin
A review of The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective by Robert W. Fogel
Saving Souls
Assessing the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.
A Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time
A review of Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton
Halfway to Renaissance
A review of History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga
The Ties That Bind
A review of The American Founding and the Social Compact edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West
Madison Avenues
A review of James Madison, by Garry Wills
and James Madison and the Future of Limited Government, edited by John Samples
Pirate Patriot
A review of John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas
The German Question
Examining the shelved Morgenthau Plan and the man behind it.
Footnotes to Greatness
Patton was a great man despite his indiscretions, rather than a small one because of them.
The Mother of All Anti-Feminists
To counter feminist arguments, women must defend not choice but nature.
Pink-Slipped in Love
Whitehead repeatedly ignores the simple solution of advising women to refrain from moving in with a man until they are married.
Teach the Teachers, Test the Students
What makes for good teachers and good teaching?
Keys to the Kingdom
Steinberg reveals that there is nothing transparent about the admissions process of selective academic institutions.
Nature and Happiness in Locke
A review of Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy by Michael P. Zuckert
The Constitutional Presidency
A new edition of an old book that corrects the most egregious modern theories of presidential leadership.
By Popular Demand
Ingraham's great political divide is the Elites vs. "We the People".
Darwinian Conservatism
Darwinian conservatism can at least provide a scientific account of the moral and political nature of human beings.
Darwinian Relativism
Darwinism's success was due as much to aggressive public relations as it was to scientific evidence.
Commonsense Ethics
Dismantling the fact/value dichotomy.
Aquinas for the Democratic Age
A review of Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory, by John P. Hittinger
Great Learning Lightly Borne
Canavan is a man you would wish to know, for the betterment of your soul no less than of your mind.
Old Poison, New Bottles
There is no effort to connect the dots when it comes to pervasive and growing anti-Catholicism.
The Strange Case of a Hillbilly Thomist
Examining the life and works of Flannery O'Connor.
An Unweeded Garden
Bemoaning the state of higher education.
A Reply to My Critics
A response from Pierre Manent.
Divine Harmonies
Not everything in life works out as we wish.