Volume III, Number 4, Fall 2003
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Recalling Political Science
Essays
Mark Helprin: War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity
More than merely winning the war in Iraq, we needed to stun the Arab World.Angelo M. Codevilla: Ends, Enemies, and Friends
Victory comes when enemies are identified correctly, then killed or cowed.Harold W. Rood: The Long View: Democracy And Strategy In Iraq
Does the Iraq war mark the end of the great conflicts of the 20th century, or the beginning of those of the 21st?Reviews of Books
Steven F. Hayward: Hillary's Makeover
A review of Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clintonand The Clinton Wars, by Sidney Blumenthal
Jack Barlow: A Rake's Progress
A review of Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution, by Richard BrookhiserPeter McNamara: Hamilton And The Historians
A review of Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, by Stephen F. Knott;Alexander Hamilton: A Life, by Willard Sterne Randall;
and Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman
Leo Moniz: Being Earnest
A review of Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World, by Jedediah PurdyJames W. Ceaser: Natural Rights And Natural History
A review of A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic, by Bruce DainEric R. Claeys: Rehnquist's Court and the Living Constitution
A review of The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, edited by Herman Schwartzand First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life, by Kenneth W. Starr
Joseph M. Bessette: Disarming America
A review of The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control is Wrong, by John R. Lott, Jr.David Tucker: Extremists All!
A review of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, by Daniel LevitasJohn J. Pitney, Jr.: Crushing One's Enemies
A review of The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi, translated by William Scott Wilson.Allen C. Guelzo: Terrorist Or Madman?
A review of John Brown: The Legend Revisited, by Merrill D. PetersonSteven Menashi: The Word is Nigh
A review of The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are, by Norman PodhoretzPaul Marshall: Reading Up on Islam
17 recent books on Muslims and the Middle EastSusan Shell: A Readable Kant
A review of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, edited and translated by Allen W. WoodJames V. Schall: Writing Straight With Crooked Lines
A review of a The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church, by George WeigelChristopher Flannery: Nothing to Declare
A review of America Declares Independence, by Alan DershowitzGary Bauer: Unfinished Testament
A review of For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right, by Ruth Murray BrownChristopher Buskirk: Winning One For The Gipper
A review of a Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency, by Peter J. WallisonMichael P. Zuckert: Calling Liberalism's Bluff
A review of a Religion and Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis in the Separation of Church and State, by J. Judd OwenHarvey C. Mansfield: The Christian Socrates
A review of Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, by Ernest L. FortinWilliam A. Donohue: Uncivil Liberties
A review of a Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, by Aryeh NeierWalter Berns: The Libertarian Dodge
A review of a Free For All: Defending Liberty in America Today, by Wendy KaminerThomas S. Hibbs: Angst, American Style
A review of Existential America, by George CotkinTed V. McAllister: The Ideologue And The Pragmatist
A review of Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement, by Kevin J. Smantand James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life, by Daniel Kelly
R. Shep Melnick: The Lonely Scold
A review of Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon, by Justin MartinDaniel J. Mahoney: The War To End All Politics
A review of a 14-18: Understanding the Great War, by Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, translated by Catherine TemersonPatrick J. Garrity: Springtime in Paris
A review of a Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, by Margaret McMillanMichael S. Gazzaniga: The Limits Of Freedom
A review of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinkerand Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications, by Daniel N. Robinson
Larry Arnhart: Why Males Rule
A review of King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership, by Arnold M. LudwigMark Blitz: Life, Liberty, And The Defense of Human Nature
A review of a Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics, by Leon R. Kass, M.D.and The Future of Human Nature, by Jürgen Habermas
Cum Dignitate Otium
Peter Wood: Containing Multitudes:The Politics of the "Library of America"
Books great, near-great, and not-at-all-great.Nicholas Antongiavanni: Better Off Blindfolded
Casting a jaundiced eye at "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."Gordon Lloyd: New Vintage, Same Sour Grapes
A BBC documentary that misses the point of the American Revolution.Ricardo J. Quinones: Michelangelo's Catechism
Paul Barolsky views the Sistine Chapel afresh, in Michelangelo and the Finger of God.
