Volume I, Number 2, Winter 2001

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Michael M. Uhlmann: As the College Goes, So Goes the Constitution

The case against the direct election of the president.

Andrew E. Busch: The Perfect Tie

Remember all that talk a few years ago about political realignment?Well, the realignment is here, and neither political party is going to like it.

Symposium

What the 20th Century Can Teach the 21st

With contributions from Richard Brookhiser, Paul A. Cantor, Anthony Fucaloro, Robert P. George, Wilfred M. McClay, Harry Neumann, Mackubin Thomas Owens, and Paul A. Rahe.

Essays

Harry V. Jaffa: Aristotle and Locke in the American Founding

What Crisis of the House Divided and A New Birth of Freedom have in common.

Reviews of Books

Joseph M. Bessette: A Plea for Pandering

A review of Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness, by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro

Steven F. Hayward: Will the Real "New Democrats" Please Stand Up?

A review of The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan—A Biography, by Godfrey Hodgson
and Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, by Robert G. Kaufman

David Tucker: Settling Up

A review of The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, by Randall Robinson;
The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, by Elazar Barkan;
When Sorry Isn't Enough, The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice, edited by Roy L. Brooks

Michael Anton: Lone Wolfe

A review of Hooking Up, by Tom Wolfe

Angelo M. Codevilla: Wake-Up Call

A review of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today, by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan

Michael M. Uhlmann: Restoring Order to the Court

A review of Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases, edited by Terry Eastland
and Great Cases In Constitutional Law, edited by Robert P. George

Brian T. Kennedy: Beyond the Evil Empire

A review of Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol

Cum Dignitate Otium

Ben Boychuk: The Spectacle of the Oscars

It's always dangerous to ascribe conservatism to a Hollywood product. But what the heck....

Mark Gauvreau Judge: Ken Burns Ain't Got That Swing

"Jazz," the 10-part documentary, views America's music through the prism of race. And that's just Part One.

Bernard DeVoto: The Cocktail Hour: Do's and Dont's

These are precisely two cocktails...and three abominations.