Teach Them A Lesson
President Bush has staked his presidency on his administration's conduct of the war on terrorism.
From the Editor's Desk
Teach Them A Lesson
President Bush has staked his presidency on his administration's conduct of the war on terrorism.
Correspondence
Essays
Let Us Count the Ways
A strategy for victory in the war on terrorism.
Doing It The Hard Way
Shut down al-Jazeera, control the oil fields, kill terrorist regimes.
How Reagan Became Reagan
His thought was "homemade."
Book Reviews
Dreams of Empire
America's flirtation with the notion of empire and international and domestic resistance.
Have Gun, Will Travel
The case for America's role as sheriff of the new world order.
Bureaucracy And Derring-Do
Human intelligence, bureaucracy, and America's failed efforts to take action against al-Qaeda.
Culture Versus Creed
What is an American?
Why America Works
American politics is split more along cultural than along economic lines.
The Price of Rights
Constitutional rights to welfare benefits is an idea that refuses to die in the world of academia.
Raw Deal
Why conservatives once despised the New Deal for all right reasons, and why they should do so again.
What Went Wrong?
America's Great Depression, and its long term consequences, were largely self-inflicted.
Owls in Iceland
Challenging the prevailing leftist orthodoxy about the Cold War and communism.
Consistently Right
Podhoretz was, in some sense, a conservative even when he was a '60s radical.
Un-American Activities
Political science and the revival of political philosophy.
The Man Who Made Modern America
A biography of the founder of the American government.
The Americanization of God
Understanding America's religious history through the eyes of Lincoln and Jonathan Edwards.
Lincoln’s Audition
Revisiting the Cooper Union speech and Lincoln's ascent to the presidency.
A President, Not a Preacher
Bush regards the remoralization of American life as his duty to the country and to his faith.
Mythic Morals
A review of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz
The Die Is Cast
The Ides of March may not be so remote from the Ides of September after all.
Politics And Piety
Locating in Vergil's thinking a model for penetrating an issue as critical for our time as for his.
Three-Fifths Historian
No one of his generation was a more effective, influential foe of slavery than Jefferson himself.
A Closer Look Under The Bed
Why all the fuss about domestic communism in the 20th century?
The Three Rings
A review of The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I: The Peoples of God, by F. E. Peters
To Be As Gods
Socialism was defeated in the 20th century, but the belief at the heart of socialism survives.
FDR As Statesman
Roosevelt's legacy in domestic policy stands or falls with the authority of its "living Constitution".
Democracy’s Composer
How Beethoven harmonized democracy and genius.
Lincoln for Liberals
The real Lincoln still matters.