Volume V, Number 1, Winter 2004
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: The Chief Justice and the Constitution
Essays
William Voegeli: The Endless Party
Liberalism has always been unwilling, and unable, to define itself.Andrew E. Busch: Rolling Realignment
The country is less divided today than in 2000.William J. Bennett: Bush's Mandate
It is moral, and it is mainstream.Charles R. Kesler: Democracy and the Bush Doctrine
Exporting compassionate conservatism.Reviews of Books
Jeremy Rabkin: The Lesser Evil is Not Good Enough
A review of The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, by Michael IgnatieffGerard Alexander: Anti-anti-neoconservatism
A review of America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarkeand Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana, by Gary Dorrien
Herman Belz: A More Perfect Union
A review of Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government, by Gary V. WoodBenjamin Ginsberg: The Regime of Free Speech
A review of The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, by Paul StarrJay Martin: The Last Jeffersonian
A review of Hawthorne: A Life, by Brenda WineappleJames R. Stoner, Jr.: Counting Every Vote
A review of Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, by Roy Morris, Jr.and Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876, by William H. Rehnquist
Arnold Beichman: The France of Jacques Chirac
A review of The French Betrayal of America, by Kenneth R. TimmermanJohn Zvesper: Mythical Friends, Meet Mythical Enemies
A review of Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, by John J. Miller and Mark MoleskyDaniel J. Mahoney: Anti-anti-Americanism
A review of Anti-Americanism, by Jean-François Revel, translated from the French by Diarmid CammellPaul A. Rahe: Machiavelli at War
A review of Art of War, by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated, edited, and with a commentary by Christopher LynchKarl Walling: Our Interest Guided by Our Justice
A review of American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Lamberton HarperMackubin Thomas Owens: Subjugation and Extermination
A review of Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief, by Geoffrey Perretand Lincoln's Constitution, by Daniel Farber
Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr.: Cultures of War
A review of Battle: A History of Combat and Culture, by John A. Lynnand Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, by Victor Davis Hanson
Joseph M. Bessette: Is God in the Details?
A review of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, by Stephen M. Barr;The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design, by William A. Dembski;
By Design: Science and the Search for God, by Larry Witham;
and Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design, by Thomas Woodward
Christopher Levenick: Slouching Towards Pluralism
A review of The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live our Faith, by Alan Wolfe;Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal, by William R. Hutchison;
and Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited, by Charles Taylor
Scott Walter: Great Expectations
A review of Letters to a Young Catholic, by George WeigelRomanus Cessario: The Spirit's Breath
A review of The Bible in English: Its History and Influence, by David DaniellPaul A. Cantor: History Plays
A review of The Age of Shakespeare, by Frank Kermodeand Imagining Shakespeare, by Stephen Orgel
Mark Blitz: From the Top
A review of The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings, by Eva BrannCatherine Zuckert: Plato's Poetry
A review of Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic, by Ramona A. NaddaffRicardo J. Quinones: Les Intellectuels
A review of Camus and Satre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It, by Ronald AronsonJames Panero: Palestinian Authority
A review of Humanism and Democratic Criticism, by Edward W. SaidJean Bethke Elshtain: Practice Does Not Make Perfect
A review of Democracy and Tradition, by Jeffrey StoutTerrence O. Moore: Chivalry Now
A review of The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry, by Brad MinerPaul Johnson: Beauty Betrayed
A review of The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, by Roger KimballCum Dignitate Otium
Harvey C. Mansfield: A More Demanding Curriculum
Reviving liberal education in a free society.
