Volume IV, Number 3, Summer 2004

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: For the Gipper

Correspondence

Essays

Thomas G. West: Leo Strauss and American Foreign Policy

Is there a neoconservative connection?

Michael M. Uhlmann: The Road Not Taken

Why the Court should have listened to Justice Jackson.

Edward J. Erler: Still Separate But Equal

What happened to the colorblind Constitution?

Harvey C. Mansfield: The Captive Woman

A sermon on science and religion.

Reviews of Books

Andrew E. Busch: Reagan's Legacies

A review of The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism & Its Legacies, edited by W. Elliott Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham
and Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, by Walter Williams

Colin Dueck: Kerry's Dilemma

A review of The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership, by Zbigniew Brzezinski;
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, by Joseph S. Nye;
and Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, by Noam Chomsky

Midge Decter: The Open Society and Its Enemy

A review of The Bubble of American Supremacy, by George Soros

Gerard Alexander: Democratic Exaggerations

A review of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay;
and An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle

Jeremy Rabkin: No Miracle In San Francisco

A review of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations, by Stephen Schlesinger

Barry Cooper: Fantasy Land

A review of Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future, by Lloyd Axworthy

Eldon J. Eisenach: The Fate Of Progress

A review of A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, by Michael McGerr

Ronald J. Pestritto: The Perils of Progress

A review of Woodrow Wilson, by H.W. Brands

John Zvesper: Moral Monster

A review of Napoleon: A Political Life, by Steven Englund

Mackubin Thomas Owens: First in War

A review of Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer
and Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War, by Wayne Bodle

Jean M. Yarbrough: Crypto-Tory?

A review of Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind, by Michael Knox Beran

Wilson Carey McWilliams: That Old-Time Religion

A review of Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War, by E. Brooks Holifield

Glen E. Thurow: One Nation Under God

A review of Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith, by Joseph R. Fornieri

Michael P. Zuckert: A Life In The Law

A review of Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era, by Michael A. Ross

Timothy Sandefur: Slaughtering the 14th Amendment

A review of The Slaughterhouse Cases by Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie

Richard E. Morgan: Grasping at Straws

A review of The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary: Why the Right is Wrong about the Courts, by Mark Kozlowski

Matthew J. Franck: Coercion by Consent

A review of Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government, by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod

John McWhorter: Black Like Who?

A review of The End of Blackness, by Debra J. Dickerson

Christine Rosen: Good Council

A review of Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Leon Kass
and Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics, by the President's Council on Bioethics

Stephen K. Tootle: The Return of William McKinley

A review of The Modern American Presidency, by Lewis L. Gould;
William McKinley and His America (Revised Edition), by H. Wayne Morgan;
William McKinley, by Kevin Phillips;
and Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America, by Eric Rauchway

Karl Walling: Statecraft And Soulcraft

A review of The Modern Prince: What Modern Leaders Need to Know Now, by Carnes Lord

Delba Winthrop: Toward Grandeur

A review of Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution, by Robert T. Gannett, Jr.

Paul A. Cantor: Average Bill

A review of Shakespeare, by Michael Wood

John Derbyshire: On A Green Knoll Apart

A review of W.B. Yeats: A Life—Vol. II: The Arch-Poet, by R.F. Foster

Cum Dignitate Otium

Jeffrey Hart: Tennis: From Leveling Up to Leveling Down

The grand days of the sporting gentleman.

John B. Kienker: Mystic Chords of Memory

The Gilder Lehrman Collection invites Americans to fall in love with their history.