Volume I, Number 4, Summer 2001

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Charles R. Kesler: The Age of Reagan

Three new books make the case for Ronald Reagan's enduring legacy. But has Reagan replaced FDR as the dominant force in American politics?

Steven F. Hayward: Exclusive Excerpt: 'Here We Are On The Late Show Again'

How Ronald Reagan Defied Expectations And Beat 'Giant Killer' Pat Brown

Essays

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Case Closed?

Weighing the evidence in this ongoing controversy.

Reviews of Books

Thomas B. Silver: Pragmatism's Four Horsemen

A review of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand

James Higgins: Al Smith and the Liberalism That Might Have Been

A review of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith, by Robert A. Slayton

Edward J. Erler: liberalchic.gov

A review of republic.com, by Cass R. Sunstein

Patrick J. Garrity: Balancing Act: How We Won the Cold War

A review of In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Strategy, by Aaron L. Friedberg

Richard E. Morgan: A Noble Judicial Coup?

A review of Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, by James T. Patterson

William P. Hoar: Reds in the White House

A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel

James H. Nichols, Jr.: Right, Law, and Justice at the End of History

A review of Outline of a Phenomenology of Right, by Alexandre Kojève

Timothy Wheeler: Unworthy Lives and Unalienable Rights

A review of The Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, by Wesley J. Smith

Pride and Political Philosophy

Mark Blitz: Nazi Thinker

A review of Introduction to Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger, translated by Gregory Field and Richard Polt

Cum Dignitate Otium

Constance Rossum: A Life in Three Movements

Reflections on the remarkable life of a musician-lawyer-scholar.

Josh Jensen: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold

May I offer you a glass of freezing white wine, or would you prefer some boiling red wine?