Volume II, Number 2, Winter 2002

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Our Friend Tom

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Charles R. Kesler: The Genteel Decline of America's First Dynasty

A review of America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918, by Richard Brookhiser

C. Bradley Thompson: John Adams

A review of John Adams, by David McCullough

Richard Samuelson: John Quincy Adams

A review of John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life, by Paul C. Nagel;
John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union, by James E. Lewis;
John Quincy Adams: A Bibliography, by Lynn H. Parsons;
and Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, by William Lee Miller

Christopher Flannery: Henry Adams

A review of Improvement of the World, A Biography of Henry Adams: His Last Life, 1891-1918, by Edward Chalfant
and Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist, by James P. Young

Essays

Victor Davis Hanson: Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars

Don't underestimate the spirit of freedom in the citizen-soldier, ancient and modern.

David Tucker: Terrorism and the Imperial Struggle

The next stage in the anti-colonial fight.

Reviews of Books

Thomas B. Silver: Why Conservatives Lost the War of Ideas

The lingering consequences of Progressivism—for the country and for the Right. An exclusive first look at Tom Silver's final book

Steven F. Hayward: A Premature Post-Mortem for Liberalism

A review of The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by H.W. Brands

Martha Bayles: Top of the World, Skipper!

A review of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, by Paul A. Cantor

In Memoriam: Thomas B. Silver, 1947-2001

Larry P. Arnn, Christopher Flannery, and Peter Schramm reflect on the loss of a patriot, a scholar, and a friend.

James Seaton: Delighting in the Great Books

A review of Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education, by Jeffrey Hart

John J. Pitney, Jr.: A Bad Case for Big Government

A review of What Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequality, by Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons

Correspondence

Books in Brief

Cum Dignitate Otium

Ken Masugi: Reason and Revelation at the Movies

"Black Hawk Down," directed by Ridley Scott; "A Beautiful Mind," directed by Ron Howard; "The Man Who Wasn't There," directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen.

Bradley C. S. Watson: Up in Smoke

Defending the last undefended vice.