Volume I, Number 1, Fall 2000

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: In Defense of Constitutional Democracy

New calls to abolish the Electoral College system are simple, appealing, and a threat to constitional government in the United States.

Reviews of Books

Steven F. Hayward: Gray Matter on Green Affairs

Reviews of Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto, by Peter Huber;
and Conservation Reconsidered, by Charles T. Rubin

Herman Belz: Recipes for Anarchy in which Libertarians and Slaveholders Find Common Cause

A review of States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876, by Forrest McDonald
and When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, by Charles Adams

Ben Boychuk: Who's Sorry Now?

A review of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years, by James Bovard
and Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment, by David P. Schippers

Glenn Ellmers: Can We Talk?

A review of The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy, by Peter Levine

Charles R. Kesler: A New Birth of Freedom

A review of A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, by Harry V. Jaffa

Ken Masugi: Did Tocqueville Understand America?

A review of Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop

Lucas E. Morel: Forced into Gory Lincoln Revisionism

A review of Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, by Lerone Bennett

Cum Dignitate Otium

Martha Bayles: Music, Philosophy, and Generation Y

A few reasons to be hopeful amidst the flotsam and jetsam of popular culture.

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Wine With Lunch

The fruit of the vine can induce the fruit of benefaction, and who's opposed to that?