Volume II, Number 1, Fall 2001

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Why We Fight

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Angelo M. Codevilla: Victory: What it Will Take to Win

How to win—and how not to win—America's War on Terrorism.

Essays

Andrew E. Busch: The Return of Public Seriousness

The unintended effects of September 11 on American domestic policies.

Know Your Enemy

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 reward

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. Clark

Steven F. Hayward: The Hitch with Hitchens

A review of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, by Christopher Hitchens

Patrick J. Garrity: Preparing for the War After the "War on Terrorism"

A review of the Pentagon's latest Quadrennial Defense Review

Paul A. Cantor: Between Heaven and Hell

A review of Hamlet in Purgatory, by Stephen Greenblatt

Michael 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. Cantor

Thomas L. Krannawitter: Broken Hearth, Broken Hearts

A review of The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family, by William J. Bennett

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.