Volume II, Number 3, Spring 2002

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Big Government Conservatism?

Essays

Angelo M. Codevilla: What War?

By spring 2002, the Bush administration's pretense that it was making war had worn thin.

Reviews of Books

Hadley Arkes: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Alan Wolfe

A review of Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice, by Alan Wolfe

K.R. Constantine Gutzman: The Man Behind the Signature

A review of John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot, by Harlow Giles Unger

Larry P. Arnn: Winston Is Back

A review of Churchill: A Biography, by Roy Jenkins;
Churchill: A Study in Greatness, by Geoffrey Best
and The Gathering Storm, directed by Richard Loncraine

Thomas L. Krannawitter: Dishonest About Abe

A review of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, by Thomas DiLorenzo

Ward Connerly: Up From Slavery

A review of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, by Roger Wilkins

Christopher Flannery: Steinbeck In Good Conscience

A review of America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction, by John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson

Michael Anton: The Men Behind the Mysteries

Reviews of Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett;
and The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959, edited by Frank McShane and Tom Hiney

Glenn Ellmers: It's Over, Already

A review of The Unfinished Election of 2000, edited by Jack N. Rakove

James F. Pontuso: Ascent From Exile

A review of Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, by Joseph Pearce
and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology, by Daniel J. Mahoney

Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley: Seeing Red

A review of Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh;
A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left, by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner;
and Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture, by Michael Barson and Steven Heller

Julie Ann Ponzi: The Secret Ingredient Is Love

A review of Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work, by Jennifer Roback Morse

James H. Nichols, Jr.: God and Mammon

A Review of Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, by Robert H. Nelson

Books in Brief

Cum Dignitate Otium

Edward C. Banfield: Advice to Graduates About Advice

A few sage words to this year's graduating class. No exhortations, please.

On Wine

In wine, there is truth. Why would you drown the truth? A moral defense of the fruit of the vine, from Benjamin Franklin.