Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2004
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Teach Them A Lesson
Essays
Mark Helprin: Let Us Count the Ways
A strategy for victory in the war on terrorism.Angelo M. Codevilla: Doing It The Hard Way
Shut down al-Jazeera, control the oil fields, kill terrorist regimes.Steven F. Hayward: How Reagan Became Reagan
His thought was "homemade."Reviews of Books
Carnes Lord: Dreams of Empire
A review of Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, by Niall Ferguson;Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, by Niall Ferguson;
and America's Inadvertent Empire, by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric
Mackubin Thomas Owens: Have Gun, Will Travel
A review of The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order, by Colin S. GrayDavid Tucker: Bureaucracy And Derring-Do
A review of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Colland A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, by James Bamford
Vincent J. Cannato: Culture Versus Creed
A review of Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, by Samuel P. HuntingtonJames Q. Wilson: Why America Works
A review of Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future, by Michael BaroneR. Shep Melnick: The Price of Rights
A review of The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, by Cass R. Sunsteinand Welfare and the Constitution, by Sotirios A. Barber
Robert Eden: FDR As Statesman
A review of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, by Conrad BlackGregory L. Schneider: Raw Deal
A review of FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, by Jim PowellRichard Vedder: What Went Wrong?
A review of Rethinking the Great Depression, by Gene SmileyMichael Knox Beran: To Be As Gods
A review of Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy, by G. Edward WhiteWilliam Rusher: A Closer Look Under The Bed
A review of Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America, by Ted MorganDonald T. Critchlow: Owls in Iceland
A review of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage, by John Earl Haynes and Harvey KlehrDavid Klinghoffer: Consistently Right
A review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s, edited by Thomas L. JeffersElihu Grant: Un-American Activities
A review of Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political Science, by Dennis J. MahoneyStephen F. Knott: The Man Who Made Modern America
A review of Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow A review of "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, by Garry WillsChristopher Levenick: The Americanization of God
A review of Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden;America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark A. Noll;
and Lincoln, by Richard J. Carwardine
Allen C. Guelzo: Lincoln's Audition
A review of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold HolzerThomas L. Krannawitter: Lincoln for Liberals
A review of Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever, by Mario M. CuomoJaroslav Pelikan: The Three Rings
A review of The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, by F. E. PetersJoseph M. Knippenberg: A President, Not a Preacher
A review of A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush, by David Aikman;The Faith of George W. Bush, by Stephen Mansfield;
and George W. Bush on God and Country, edited by Thomas M. Freiling
Thomas R. Martin: Mythic Morals
A review of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths, by Mary LefkowitzRonald Cluett: The Die Is Cast
A review of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom HollandJohn E. Alvis: Politics And Piety
A review of Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid, by Eve AdlerCum Dignitate Otium
Algis Valiunas: Democracy's Composer
How Beethoven harmonized democracy and genius.
