Volume II, Number 1, Fall 2001
From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Why We Fight
Essays
Andrew E. Busch: The Return of Public Seriousness
The unintended effects of September 11 on American domestic policies. The text of Osama bin Laden's fatwa, proclaiming the duty of Muslims to kill Americans.Harvey C. Mansfield: "Those Hell-Hounds Called Terrorists"
A reflection on the place of terror in modern politics and political theory.Jean M. Yarbrough: Duty, Honor, Country
An examination at West Point of the role of military virtues in preserving our republican institutions.Yotam Feldner: 72 Black-Eyed Virgins?
A closer look at the Islamic debate on a martyr's rewardAngelo M. Codevilla: Victory: What it Will Take to Win
How to win—and how not to win—America's War on Terrorism.Reviews of Books
Mackubin Thomas Owens: Friends & Enemies
A review of Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Conflict, by General Wesley K. ClarkPatrick J. Garrity: Preparing for the War After the "War on Terrorism"
A review of the Pentagon's latest Quadrennial Defense ReviewMichael Fumento: The Bacterium That Changed History
A review of In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made , by Norman F. CantorSteven F. Hayward: The Hitch with Hitchens
A review of The Trial of Henry Kissinger
, by Christopher Hitchens
Paul A. Cantor: Between Heaven and Hell
A review of Hamlet in Purgatory
, by Stephen Greenblatt
Thomas L. Krannawitter: Books in Brief
Cum Dignitate Otium
Christopher C. Harmon: The Other Terrorists
"The Legends of Rita," directed by Volker Schlöndorff.Walker Percy: Bourbon, Neat
On the aesthetic of bourbon drinking.
