Volume III, Number 3, Summer 2003

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Republican Triumphs

Essays

Angelo M. Codevilla: When the Cheering Stops

We ended Saddam's regime, but have we squandered our success?

Christopher Flannery: No Limbaughs on the Left

Listening to liberal radio—so you don't have to.

Michael M. Uhlmann: The Use and Abuse of Just-War Theory

Lead us not into the pacifist temptation.

Dwight Lee: A Noble Science

Why economics is far from dismal.

William B. Allen: Making Citizens

The good American and the good European.

Reviews of Books

Steven F. Hayward: Commander-In-Chief

A review of Bush at War, by Bob Woodward;
and The Right Man, by David Frum

Victor Davis Hanson: The Little Tyrant

A review of Napoleon: A Penguin Life, by Paul Johnson

Richard Samuelson: Making Democracy Safe for the World

A review of The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, by Fareed Zakaria

Carnes Lord: Putting 'The Politics' Back In Politics

A review of Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, edited by Aristide Tessitore

Susan D. Collins: Translating The Philosopher

A review of Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, translated by Joe Sachs;
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, edited by Roger Crisp;
Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin;
and The Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, translated by Sir David Ross, J.L. Ackrill, and J.O. Urmson

Mackubin Thomas Owens: The 'Lost Cause' In Retreat

A review of The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, by David J. Eicher;
and Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, by Noah Andre Trudeau

Martha A. Derthick: Giants Roam The Earth

A review of High and Mighty: SUVs—The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way, by Keith Bradsher

Robert Royal: Garry Agonistes

A review of Why I Am A Catholic, by Garry Wills

John B. Kienker: The Book of Vices

A review of Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, by Dan Savage

John H. Taylor: Even Paranoiacs Have Enemies

A review of JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me: An Idealist's Journey from Capitol Hill to Hollywood Hell, by Eric Hamburg

Thomas S. Hibbs: God and Man at the Multiplex

A review of Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment, by Brian Godawa
and The Myth of the American Superhero, by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett

Ricardo J. Quinones: Lifting Us Up

A review of Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, by Harold Bloom

Correspondence

Too Hard on Bush? Lincoln's Victory

Cum Dignitate Otium

Thomas S. Engeman: In Defense of Cowboy Culture

For the American hero, the frontier never closes.

Steven J. Lenzner: Leo Strauss and the Detective Story

The philosopher as sleuth.

Elliott Banfield: The Goddess of Freedom

Lady Liberty still speaks to all those yearning to be free.