Volume IV, Number 1, Winter 2003

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Bipartisan Dreams

Correspondence

Essays

Terrence O. Moore: Wimps and Barbarians: The Sons of Murphy Brown

Today's boys have little sense of how to be men.

Glenn Ellmers: Schwarzenegger's Moment

From recall to reform.

Allen C. Guelzo: Learning to Love the Federalists

Jefferson's opponents were awkward but indispensable.

David F. Forte: The True Story of Marbury v. Madison

Why Chief Justice John Marshall was not a judicial activist.

Angelo M. Codevilla: No Victory, No Peace

What Rumsfeld's memo reveals, and conceals.

Reviews of Books

Andrew E. Busch: Breaking the Perfect Tie

review of The Emerging Democratic Majority, by John B. Judis;
and Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre, by David R. Mayhew

Douglas A. Jeffrey: Red-Baiting

A review of Made in Texas: George Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, by Michael Lind

Arnold Beichman: Out Of Gas

A review of The Long Detour: The History And Future Of The American Left, by James Weinstein

Gerard Alexander: Utopia's Victims

Reviews of Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum;
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, by Martin Amis;
and A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, by Eric D. Weitz

Clifford Orwin: We Anti-Nihilists

A review of Terror and Liberalism, by Paul Berman

David Tucker: A Long, Hard Slog

Reviews of No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century, by Walter Laqueur;
Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War, by Norman Friedman;
Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror, by Richard Miniter;
and Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, by Gerald L. Posner

Scott W. Johnson: The Party's Not Over

A review of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America, by Micah L. Sifry

Carnes Lord: The Nelson Touch

A review of Nelson: Love and Fame, by Edgar Vincent

Albert Keith Whitaker: The Bible and Philosophy

Reviews of The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon R. Kass;
and Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, by Thomas L. Pangle

Michael P. Zuckert: Father Of Our Country?

A review of John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer

John Zvesper: Crass Struggle

A review of A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, by John Ferling

Forrest McDonald: Debt & Taxes

Reviews of A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy, by James Macdonald;
and Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence, by Bruce H. Mann

Peter S. Onuf: Lewis And Clark, Deconstructed

A review of Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness, by Thomas P. Slaughter

Christopher Wolfe: Tipping The Scales

A review of The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism, by Paul Carrese

Jeremy Rabkin: In the Looking Glass

A review of The Majesty of Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, by Sandra Day O'Connor

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Tailgunner Ann

A review of Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter

Gordon Lloyd: American Original

A review of Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives, edited by John A. Murley and John A. Alvis

Frederick R. Lynch: Immigration Nightmares

Reviews of a Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, by Michelle Malkin;
and Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, by Victor Davis Hanson

Paul A. Cantor: The Economic Muse

A review of The Literary Book of Economics, edited by Michael Watts

Sam Ratcliffe: Dangerous Books

A review of Not Seeing Red: American Librarianship and the Soviet Union, 1917-1960, by Stephen Karetzky

Pamela K. Jensen: Shakespeare's Metaphysics

A review of Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear', by Leon Harold Craig

Cum Dignitate Otium

William Voegeli: Gatsby and the Pursuit of Happiness

Money and morals in the American dream.

Ricardo J. Quinones: Dostoevsky's Transcendent Art

Joseph Frank's classic biography of a classic novelist.

Elliott Banfield: The Fourth Dimension

The artistic limits of our visual age.