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Ashbrook Editorials The Myopia of the Left: An Invitation the Right Must Decline by Andrew E. Busch May 2008 McCain Makes a Start on Health Care by Andrew E. Busch May 2008 Review of The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Patrick J. Garrity April 2008 Obama: Another McGovern or Another Carter? by Andrew E. Busch April 2008 Review of The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War by Mackubin T. Owens April 2008 Opening the Gateway to Victory: The 1862 Campaigns in the West by Mackubin T. Owens April 2008 Will 2008 be a Realigning Election? by Andrew E. Busch April 2008 Barack Obama’s Perfect Union by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2008 Oil Sands: Achieving Balance between Energy Security and Environmental Concerns by Mackubin T. Owens March 2008 Barack Obama and the Tyranny of the Majority by Joseph M. Knippenberg February 2008 The Warrior and the Preacher by Peter Augustine Lawler February 2008 McCain Appeal by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online February 2008 Barack Obama: A Faithful Democrat by Joseph M. Knippenberg February 2008 Voters Face Challenges Making Vote Decision by Andrew E. Busch January 2008 America’s "Long War(s)" by Mackubin T. Owens January 2008 The Candidate’s Religion by Peter Augustine Lawler January 2008 Republican Race Open, But Not Likely to Stay That Way by Andrew E. Busch December 2007 Gettysburg: The Controversies, Part I by Mackubin T. Owens December 2007 Faith (and Faithlessness?) in America by Joseph M. Knippenberg December 2007 The Speech Romney Ought to Give by Joseph M. Knippenberg December 2007 McCain-Huckabee (or Huckabee-McCain)? by Peter Augustine Lawler December 2007 Energy Security vs. Energy Independence by Mackubin T. Owens November 2007 Is McCain the Next Kerry? by Andrew E. Busch November 2007 Leisure, Busyness, and the Aims of Liberal Education by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2007 Emancipation as Political-Military Strategy by Mackubin T. Owens November 2007 Hillary the Vincible? by Andrew E. Busch November 2007 Vigilance and Responsibility: Civil Liberties During the Civil War by Mackubin T. Owens November 2007 Republican Tournament: Will Sweet Six Be Down to Thankful Three by January? by Andrew E. Busch November 2007 Democracy at Arms by Mackubin T. Owens The Weekly Standard October 2007 From Stones River to Chattanooga by Mackubin T. Owens October 2007 Ukrainian Elections Turn the Wheel Again by Andrew E. Busch October 2007 A Marine Takes Charge of Military Transformation by Mackubin T. Owens October 2007 The Democrats’ "Fairy Dust" Energy Plan by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post September 2007 Civic Literacy in America by Joseph M. Knippenberg September 2007 Thompson and Reagan by Andrew E. Busch September 2007 Dismantling Terrorism by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online September 2007 Why Did the Confederacy Lose? by Mackubin T. Owens August 2007 Rip van Knippenberg on the New Europe by Joseph M. Knippenberg August 2007 Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by Mackubin T. Owens August 2007 Maroons Rush In by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online August 2007 Spending Battles Give Republicans an Opportunity, but Seizing It Will Not Be Easy by Andrew E. Busch August 2007 Born American: Reflections of an Immigrant Patriot by Peter W. Schramm The Heritage Foundation August 2007 Stephen Glass Meets the Winter Soldiers by Mackubin T. Owens July 2007 Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania by Mackubin T. Owens July 2007 American by Choice: We Must All Learn What It Means to be an American by Peter W. Schramm The Weekly Standard June 2007 Grant and Lee by Mackubin T. Owens June 2007 Sarkozy’s Pragmatically Optimistic Revolution by John Zvesper June 2007 From Beaver Dam Creek to Antietam: Lee’s Virginia-Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Mackubin T. Owens June 2007 From Machiavelli to America by Christopher Flannery June 2007 The Ukrainian Crisis in Perspective by Andrew E. Busch June 2007 The Call to Greatness by Terrence Moore June 2007 Thank You, George Lucas by John E. Moser May 2007 Another Tale of May: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign by Mackubin T. Owens May 2007 A Complicated Victory by Andrew E. Busch May 2007 A Tale of Two Mays in Wartime: What a Difference a Year Makes by Mackubin T. Owens May 2007 Sarkozy is No Chirac by John Zvesper May 2007 Review of Dangerous Nation by Mackubin T. Owens May 2007 The Revival of French Electoral Politics by John Zvesper April 2007 Ohioan Makes Good: The Story of Jesse Owens by Patrick J. Garrity April 2007 A Special Place in Hell by Terrence Moore April 2007 Copperheads, Then and Now by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online March 2007 March Madness by Patrick J. Garrity March 2007 Casey and Westmoreland: Kicked Upstairs? by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online February 2007 Why Conservatives Should be Leery of Government-Mandated Assessment in Higher Education by Joseph M. Knippenberg February 2007 Before the Magic by Patrick J. Garrity February 2007 Up Down Under by Patrick J. Garrity January 2007 George W. Bush’s War by Mackubin T. Owens January 2007 "Be Perfect": Ridgeview’s Second State Championship by Terrence O. Moore December 2006 "Search and Destroy": The Origins of Our Air-Mobile Army by Mackubin T. Owens November 2006 November 7th by the Numbers by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2006 Can George W. Bush Learn from Harry S. Truman? by John E. Moser November 2006 Midterm Elections Present Opportunities and Dangers for Democrats by Andrew E. Busch November 2006 Which Models, and Which Precedents, Will Appear on Election Day? by Andrew E. Busch November 2006 The "Transformation" Mistake by Mackubin T. Owens November 2006 The American World Series by Patrick J. Garrity October 2006 The Last Three Weeks: Localize or Nationalize? by Andrew E. Busch October 2006 1994 Republicans End Long Journey in the Wilderness by Andrew E. Busch October 2006 America’s Untapped Fuel Supply by Mackubin T. Owens October 2006 Fuel for Thought by Mackubin T. Owens October 2006 "How Much is Tuition?": Charter Schools Defined by Terrence Moore September 2006 Are We Winning in Iraq?: Defeatism is Unwarranted by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online September 2006 1978 GOP Sets Stage for Reagan by Andrew E. Busch September 2006 Heather Mac Donald’s Conservative Crack-Up by Joseph M. Knippenberg August 2006 1974 Midterms Bolster Liberalism in Congress by Andrew E. Busch August 2006 Stem Cell Politics: Advantage, Republicans by Joseph M. Knippenberg July 2006 1966 Midterm Foreshadows Republican Era by Andrew E. Busch July 2006 1958-1962 Midterms Pave Way for Great Society by Andrew E. Busch July 2006 "The Good Guys" Won?! by Robert Alt National Review Online July 2006 Men@War: Haditha in Context by Mackubin T. Owens June 2006 1946 Midterm Gives GOP First Majority Since 1928 Elections, Helps Ensure Truman’s Reelection by Andrew E. Busch June 2006 Faith, Learning, and Politics: The Case of Patrick Henry College by Joseph M. Knippenberg May 2006 Rumsfeld and His Critics by Mackubin T. Owens May 2006 The New Deal Comes to a Screeching Halt in 1938 by Andrew E. Busch May 2006 Kevin Phillips’s American Demagoguery by Joseph M. Knippenberg April 2006 A Dereliction of Duty: Military Officer Shouldn’t Try to be Policymakers by Mackubin T. Owens April 2006 An Honest Account by Mackubin T. Owens April 2006 1930 Midterms Heralded New Deal by Andrew E. Busch April 2006 America’s Role in the World: Republican Empire and the Bush Doctrine by Mackubin T. Owens April 2006 Religious Freedom in Afghanistan by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2006 Democrats Put Themselves on the Road to the White House in 1910 by Andrew E. Busch March 2006 Burned Out in Birmingham: Liberal Education and America by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2006 Fire Bennish for His Moral and Historical Ignorance by Terrence Moore March 2006 Midterm Elections Offer a Mixed Bag by Andrew E. Busch March 2006 A Monopoly on ’Relating to Children’?: Teacher Certification Further Refuted by Terrence Moore February 2006 Webb Loss by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online February 2006 Eating Up the Bread of Our Children by John C. Eastman February 2006 Tolerating the Intolerable by David Foster February 2006 The Mohammed Cartoons and the Broken Sky by John Zvesper February 2006 The One Economics Job Mr. Greenspan Can’t Have by Terrence Moore January 2006 Conservatives and Martin Luther King by Andrew E. Busch January 2006 Transformation: The Changing Requirements for Victory on the Battlefield by Mackubin T. Owens January 2006 Vigilance and Responsibility: Alexander Hamilton’s Strategic Sobriety by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online January 2006 Statesmen, Demagogues, and the Rule of Law by John C. Eastman January 2006 Alexander Hamilton: The Indispensable Founder by Mackubin T. Owens January 2006 Singles and Doubles by Andrew E. Busch January 2006 Irreducible Hostility: Intelligent Design in the Courts by Joseph M. Knippenberg January 2006 Strength and Constancy: It’s a Strategy by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online December 2005 Hamiltonian W. by Mackubin T. Owens December 2005 The Political Theology of Thanksgiving by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2005 Defeated by Defeatism: Why Jack Murtha is Wrong by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online November 2005 ’05 Elections a Mixed Bag by Andrew E. Busch November 2005 Recovering Civic Virtue by David Forte October 2005 My, Oh Miers! by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2005 Tiptoeing Toward the Center: Galston and Kamarck on "The Politics of Polarization" by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2005 Miers, Bush, and a Discourse of Constitutionalism by Andrew E. Busch October 2005 Terrorism and the "Katrina Option" by Andrew E. Busch September 2005 Hurricane Katrina and the Future of American Civil-Military Relations by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post September 2005 How Not to Honor Our Honorable Dead: Ending the Summer of Cindy Sheehan by Mackubin T. Owens September 2005 Baghdad and Philadelphia by John Zvesper September 2005 Reading Lolita in Atlanta by Joseph M. Knippenberg August 2005 Be Careful What You Wish For... by Andrew E. Busch August 2005 Time to Revisit the Vietnam Analogy by Andrew E. Busch August 2005 Sterile Irrelevance by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online August 2005 Behind the Casualties by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post August 2005 What’s Wrong With Progressivism? by Andrew E. Busch August 2005 John Roberts on Church and State: A Speculative Reconstruction by Joseph M. Knippenberg August 2005 A Noble Soldier, Not a Great Soldier by Mackubin T. Owens July 2005 Shifting the Balance by Andrew E. Busch July 2005 Will This War Ruin the Army? by Mackubin T. Owens July 2005 The Judge Bush Should Get to Know... by Peter W. Schramm July 2005 Policing Pluralism: The Ten Commandments and the First Amendment by Joseph M. Knippenberg July 2005 Supreme Contradiction by Peter W. Schramm June 2005 Rollin’ on the Rivers by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post June 2005 Attention: Deficit Disorder by Andrew E. Busch June 2005 French Reactions to the EU Referendums by John Zvesper June 2005 From Breaking Rocks to Building Cathedrals: The Conversation of a Charter School’s Graduating Class by Terrence Moore June 2005 A Generational Thing by Mackubin T. Owens June 2005 A Man’s Job: Ground Combat is More Than Just a "Women’s Issue" by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online May 2005 Lincoln’s Strategy: Emancipation Was an Early Goal by Mackubin T. Owens May 2005 Horror and Valor of War by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post May 2005 Doing Justice to Justice Sunday by Joseph M. Knippenberg May 2005 Happy Birthday Shakespeare: Or What You Will by Rafael Major April 2005 The Popes and Modern Liberalism by Andrew E. Busch April 2005 Chirac’s European Constitution Show by John Zvesper April 2005 Reagan, Bush, and Taxes by Andrew E. Busch April 2005 The Problem with "Pushing Back" by Mackubin T. Owens April 2005 Be Not Afraid: He Wasn’t by Steven Hayward April 2005 Decalogue Part of Nation’s Foundation by Peter W. Schramm Columbus Dispatch March 02, 2005 Review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2005 A Few Modest Suggestions for Tax Reform by Andrew E. Busch March 2005 Religion and (Abortion) Politics in Great Britain: Tony Blair’s Faithworks Speech by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2005 The Schiavo Case: Human Tragedy and Legal Travesty by Robert Alt March 2005 The "No" Party May Be Miscalculating on Social Security by Andrew E. Busch March 2005 In Defense of "Discrimination" by Joseph M. Knippenberg March 2005 Defending the Ten Commandments by Larry J. Obhof March 2005 Iwo Jima and the Future of the Marine Corps by Mackubin T. Owens February 2005 No Hype Necessary by Rafael Major February 2005 Psychiatric Ward by Andrew E. Busch February 2005 Distinctions of War: General Mattis’s Mistake by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online February 2005 Howard Dean and the Democrats by Andrew E. Busch February 2005 Bush’s State of the Union Address: Paving the Road to Freedom by Lucas Morel February 2005 Bootin’ Number Talk by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online January 2005 Bush’s Second Inaugural Address and Its (Dis)Contents by Joseph M. Knippenberg January 2005 Judging Rumsfeld by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online January 2005 The "Troubled Vet" Returns by Mackubin T. Owens New York Post December 23, 2004 Review of James Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by Mackubin T. Owens The National Review December 2004 "Theocracy" on Trial: The Faith-Based Initiative in the Courts by Joseph M. Knippenberg December 2004 Liberty in London by John Zvesper December 2004 Democrats Are Blowing Their First Chance at Recovery by Andrew E. Busch December 2004 Is Help on the Way in Europe? by John Zvesper December 2004 Two, Three, Many Fallujahs by Mackubin T. Owens The Weekly Standard December 2004 Is the Electoral College Passe?: No by Peter W. Schramm The Columbus Dispatch November 16, 2004 Remembering Winston Churchill: A Possession for All Time by Justin D. Lyons November 2004 Surviving the Blue Academy: A Modest Proposal by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2004 Off Target with the Salvation Army by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2004 A Shooting in Fallujah: Act of War or War Crime? by Mackubin T. Owens November 2004 Europeans See Change, But Is It True? by Andrew E. Busch November 2004 I Like Both Kinds of Music: Country and Western by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online November 2004 Liberty in Paris by John Zvesper November 2004 Presidents and Mandates by Andrew E. Busch November 2004 The Disaffirmation of Black Law Students by Lucas Morel November 2004 The Presidential Elections of 2004 and 2008 by John Zvesper November 2004 Gay Marriage and the Ground Game by Joseph M. Knippenberg November 2004 If Americans Want Andrew Jackson, Why Do Democrats Keep Giving Them Woodrow Wilson? by John Moser November 2004 George W. Bush’s Unfinished Revolution by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 The Big Picture by Andrew E. Busch October 2004 The Normality of Bush’s Faith by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 Time For Bush to Admit He is Not the Messiah? by John Zvesper October 2004 Who Will Go Positive? by Andrew E. Busch October 2004 John Kerry’s Consistency by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 Sleep Well, Liam by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 The Long and Winding Road: George W. Bush and the African-American Churches by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 The Campaign and the Duelfer Report by Andrew E. Busch October 2004 On the Offensive by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online October 2004 Freestyle Wrestling by Peter W. Schramm The Weekly Standard October 2004 I Love Dick Cheney by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 George W. Bush: Hypocrite or Fanatic? by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 Kerry Needed a Debate Home Run, But Only Got a Single by Joseph M. Knippenberg October 2004 Kerry Hangs Hopes on Debates by Andrew E. Busch September 2004 Bush Offends Sophisticates’ Pieties by John Zvesper September 2004 John Kerry’s "Diplomacy" by Joseph M. Knippenberg September 2004 Rather Be Fishin’ by Andrew E. Busch September 2004 Seared in My Memory: Reclaiming Stolen Honor This Election Year by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online September 2004 September 17, 1862: High Tide of the Confederacy? by Mackubin T. Owens September 2004 Kerry Faces Vexing Choice on Iraq Costs by Andrew E. Busch September 2004 Lewis’s Abolition Best Introduction to Philosophy, Defense Against Relativism by Terrence Moore September 2004 Spinning the Global Opposition to American Policy by John Zvesper September 2004 What’s Love Got to Do with It?: George W. Bush and the Religious Left by Joseph M. Knippenberg September 2004 Kerry’s Moment of Peril by Andrew E. Busch August 2004 A Tangled Web: Kerry’s Defenders Have to Deal with History—and the Facts by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online August 2004 John Kerry’s Two Vietnams: The Swift Vets and the Record by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online August 2004 Is Bush the Better Peace-With-Europe Candidate? by John Zvesper August 2004 President Kerry and His Court by Nathaniel Stewart August 2004 General Attempt to Campaign by the Book by Mackubin T. Owens August 2004 Democrats Have Emptied Their Six-Shooter; Now What? by Andrew E. Busch August 2004 Among the Heroes by Robert Alt July 29, 2004 No Guns, No Fear by Robert Alt July 26, 2004 The Troops Respond by Robert Alt July 19, 2004 The Iraqi Example by Robert Alt National Review Online July 08, 2004 John Kerry’s Big Night: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by Lucas Morel July 2004 Barack Obama: A Republican Soul Trapped Inside a Democrat’s Body by Lucas Morel July 2004 While the Democratic Band Plays, the GOP Trumpet Will be Warming Up by Andrew Busch July 2004 Against the West: Islamic Radicals Hate Us for Who We Are, Not What We Do by Mackubin T. Owens July 2004 Trying the Tyrant: Saddam’s New Legal Right by Robert Alt National Review Online June 30, 2004 Terrorists Welcome by Robert Alt June 29, 2004 The June Surprise by Robert Alt National Review Online June 28, 2004 Journalism at War: Let’s Not Return to the Old Days by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online June 2004 We Are All Cowboys Now by Julie Ann Ponzi June 2004 The Reagan of History: Reflections on the Death of Ronald Reagan by Mackubin T. Owens June 2004 Bush and Chirac Agreeably Disagree by John Zvesper June 2004 One Final Lesson: Individuals Count by Terrence Moore June 2004 The Liberals’ Creed by Robert Alt May 27, 2004 The Horrors of Abu Ghraib by Robert Alt May 10, 2004 God and Man in Baghdad by Robert Alt May 06, 2004 The Jacksonian Tradition and the War in Iraq by John Moser May 2004 Reconstruction Redux?: Let’s Hope Not by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online May 2004 Is It Marriage? by David Tucker May 2004 Courage Allows Us to Defend Civilization by Terrence Moore May 2004 The Ambiguous Legacy of Brown by Lucas Morel May 2004 Great Literature Enables Students to Understand Themselves and Others by Terrence Moore May 2004 Wingate’s Wisdom: Why Diplomats Blame Israel First by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online May 2004 Review of The Pentagon’s New Map by Mackubin T. Owens May 2004 Bad News From the Front: 1942 and Today by John Moser May 2004 A Real Sex Education Should Be Based in the Humanities by Terrence Moore May 2004 Delenda Est Fallujah: Insurgents Must Be Crushed by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online May 2004 Tillman’s Generation by Robert Alt National Review Online April 26, 2004 The Al Jazeera Effect by Robert Alt The Weekly Standard April 21, 2004 Media Incivility and Bias in Iraq by Robert Alt April 20, 2004 Like Mike by Robert Alt National Review Online April 14, 2004 Tet II? by Robert Alt National Review Online April 08, 2004 The Promise and Peril of Iraq by Robert Alt April 01, 2004 The Best a Free Nation Can Produce by Julie Ann Ponzi April 2004 It Seems to Me I’ve Heard That Song Before by Andrew E. Busch April 2004 The Democrats’ Wendell Willkie by John Moser April 2004 "When I Left We Were Winning" by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online April 2004 Senator Kennedy, Iraq is No Vietnam by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online April 2004 Republicans Must Emphasize Their Democratic Ideals by John Zvesper April 2004 Freedom’s Groupies: Optimism in the Land of Hammurabi by Robert Alt National Review Online March 31, 2004 The Transition Has Begun by Robert Alt National Review Online March 29, 2004 A New Birth of Freedom: Iraq, One Year Later by Robert Alt National Review Online March 19, 2004 Undeterred by Robert Alt National Review Online March 18, 2004 A Review of The Iraq War: A Military History by Mackubin T. Owens March 2004 A Safer World by Robert Alt National Review Online March 2004 Clarke’s Accusation by David Tucker March 2004 Need a Middle School Education? Go to College by Terrence Moore March 2004 The Curse of Jihad by Mackubin T. Owens March 2004 The Twenty-First Century Could Easily Learn From the Eighteenth a Few Lessons in Manners by Terrence Moore March 2004 Driving Iraq: Meet All-American Mr. Turner by Robert Alt National Review Online March 2004 Super Tuesday Sets Bush-Kerry Race, Demonstrates Flaws of Nominating System by Andrew E. Busch March 2004 Abraham Lincoln Saved the Union, But Did He Really Free the Slaves? by Mackubin T. Owens March 2004 Witnessing Mel Gibson’s "Passion" by Lucas Morel March 2004 Conservatives Should Remember "Diversity" in Debate Over Homosexual Marriage by Julie Ann Ponzi March 2004 The "Correlation of Forces," Then and Now by Mackubin T. Owens February 2004 The Return of Ralph Nader by Andrew E. Busch February 2004 Heraclitus’ Maxim Still Holds True: Character is Destiny by Terrence Moore February 2004 We All Have Our Uniforms to Wear by Terrence Moore February 2004 Game Over by Andrew E. Busch February 2004 ’Twere Well Said, Were it Said Grammatically by Terrence Moore February 2004 Left and Lefter by Andrew E. Busch February 2004 Wrong Question in Hamdi by John C. Eastman January 2004 The Alphabetic Principle is More Suited to the Human Mind by Terrence Moore January 2004 The State of the Union and Bush’s Presidential Campaign by Lucas Morel January 2004 Iowa Caucuses Point to Fluid Democrats, But Dean Can’t Be Counted Out by Andrew E. Busch January 2004 Tuning Out Environmental Gore by Steven Hayward January 2004 Johnny’s Fate: Guesser or Fearless Word Attacker by Terrence Moore January 2004 Lost on Cold Mountain: The Anti-Gods and Generals by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online January 2004 The Verdict is In: Phonics is the Way to Teach Reading by Terrence Moore January 2004 Will the Facts Catch Up With the Myth? by Andrew E. Busch January 2004 The Rumsfeld Mystique by Mackubin T. Owens The Jerusalem Post January 2004 The American Way of War by Mackubin T. Owens The Jerusalem Post December 2003 Putting Saddam on Trial by David Tucker December 2003 So Much For a "Quagmire" by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online December 2003 Children Follow Adults’ Lead in Speaking by Terrence Moore December 2003 The Triumphs and Travails of Phillis Wheatley by Lucas Morel December 2003 This Christmas, Let Children Know Where They Are: Give Them Maps by Terrence Moore December 2003 Golf and the Thin Veneer of Civilization by Patrick Garrity November 2003 Bush’s Whitehall Palace Speech by John Zvesper November 2003 A Prescription for Trouble by Andrew E. Busch November 2003 No Comparison: Iraq is Not Like Vietnam by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online November 2003 Terri Schiavo and the "Will" to Live by Nathaniel Stewart October 2003 Pre-Emptive Doctrine Difficult, But Not New by Andrew E. Busch October 2003 The Classical Trivium Remains the Best Course of Learning by Terrence Moore October 2003 A Heart for Learning in Harlem by Lucas Morel October 2003 A Strategy for Republican Empire? by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online October 2003 Death Defying by Nathaniel Stewart October 2003 Rumsfeld’s Memo by David Tucker October 2003 Thin Law Line: Judicial Catch-22 by Robert Alt National Review Online October 2003 The Latin Language: Dead or Alive? by Terrence Moore October 2003 The Recall and the Founders by John Zvesper October 2003 Rushing to Judgment: NFL and Media Reality by Robert Alt October 2003 Vigilance and Responsibility by Mackubin T. Owens October 2003 Association of Teacher Qualification and Certification is a False One by Terrence Moore September 2003 Dwight David Clark?: The General Enters the Fray by Andrew E. Busch September 2003 Today’s Young People Will Make History, For Better or Worse by Terrence Moore September 2003 The Marines’ Perfect War by Mackubin T. Owens September 2003 Bottom of the Ninth by Robert Alt September 2003 9/11: The End of "The End of History" by Mackubin T. Owens September 2003 Schools Must Prepare Youth for the Post-September 11th World by Terrence Moore September 2003 Howard Dean, the Non-Fluke by Andrew E. Busch September 2003 Avoiding Catastrophe, Skirting Disaster by David Forte September 2003 Democratic Racism: The Real Reason Behind the Borking of Estrada by Robert Alt September 2003 The Bush Doctrine and the Poverty of International Relations Theory by Mackubin T. Owens September 2003 The Episcopal Church: Eternal or "Eternally Out of Date?" by Mackubin T. Owens, The Rev. Jonathan Ostman August 2003 Young People Need to Know the True Meaning of Friendship by Terrence Moore August 2003 Faith, Ideology, and Politics by David Forte August 2003 Should We Send More Troops? by David Tucker August 2003 Classical Education and Dignified Leisure Must Be Supported at Home by Terrence Moore August 2003 Children Find Utility and Enjoyment in Exercising Their Memories by Terrence Moore August 2003 Kagan’s The Peloponnesian War by Mackubin T. Owens August 2003 No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online July 2003 Young Students Need Discipline Along With Kindness by Terrence Moore July 2003 Civilian Rumsfeld: Overseeing the Military by Mackubin T. Owens July 2003 Why the Intelligence Matters by David Tucker July 2003 Doing God’s Work?: How Congress Should Ban Cloning by Robert Alt, Nathaniel Stewart July 2003 What We Do Know in Iraq by Andrew E. Busch July 2003 Postwar Iraq: The Big Picture by Mackubin T. Owens July 2003 Two Hundred and Twenty Seven Years Later, Declaration is Still Revered—and Threatened by Andrew E. Busch July 2003 Reflections on the Fourth of July by Mackubin T. Owens July 2003 For Jefferson, Liberty Without Learning Was Unthinkable by Terrence Moore June 2003 The Divergence of America and Europe by John Zvesper June 2003 A Good Teacher’s Summer is Still Busy by Terrence Moore June 2003 The Combat Card by Mackubin T. Owens June 2003 The New Glass Ceiling by John C. Eastman June 2003 The Good and the Beautiful and the True by Terrence Moore June 2003 Reflections on Memorial Day by Mackubin T. Owens May 2003 International Anarchy by Mackubin T. Owens May 2003 Don’t Judge a Nation by Its Friends by Andrew E. Busch May 2003 Do We Need a "Just Peace" Theory? by John Moser May 2003 A Moral Assignment by Terrence Moore May 2003 Seymour Hersh, Leo Strauss and Victory in Iraq by David Tucker May 2003 Gambling on Virtue by David Foster May 2003 He Wants to Go Back: Mark Helprin’s "What We Did Wrong" Assessment by Mackubin T. Owens May 2003 Hypocrisy: Can William Bennett Still Defend Virtue? by Julie Ann Ponzi May 2003 The Consciences of Youth Also Require an Education by Terrence Moore May 2003 The Perils of Saying "Diversity" in Public by Lucas Morel May 2003 Justice Delayed by John C. Eastman May 2003 Bush Redux?: Don’t Count on It by Andrew E. Busch April 2003 Defending Federalism by Robert Alt April 2003 What is Victory? by David Tucker April 2003 Transforming Transformation: Defense-Planning Lessons from Iraq by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online April 2003 The Liberal Arts and the New "Student Revolt" by John Moser April 2003 Disarming Iraq, or Disarming Iraqis? by Andrew E. Busch April 2003 Tikrit Ahead: The War’s Not Over by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online April 2003 Wisenheimer: Does John Kerry Mean What He Says? by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online April 2003 More Than a Million Mogadishus, We Need One Good Chicago by Terrence Moore April 2003 Europeans Fail to See Changes in American Hearts and Minds by John Zvesper April 2003 A Judicial Role Call on Affirmative Action, Part II: The Conservative Wing by Lucas Morel April 2003 A Judicial Role Call on Affirmative Action, Part I: The Liberal Wing by Lucas Morel April 2003 A Founding Reunion: Embedment Reacquaints Freedom of Speech and National Defense by Mackubin T. Owens Nationa Review Online April 2003 Sniping: War Critics Divorce War From Politics by Mackubin T. Owens April 2003 Saddam’s Secret Weapon: Peter Arnett@work by Mackubin T. Owens National Review Online March 2003 Besides Democracy, the Greeks Invented "Shock and Awe" by Terrence Moore March 2003 Patience: The Main Thing Remains The Main Thing by Mackubin T. Owens March 2003 L’Audace : The War Plan by Mackubin T. Owens March 2003 A Clausewitzian Read: The Proper Balance by Mackubin T. Owens March 2003 Euro-Democrats Show Their Hand: It Plays Well in Paris, But What About Peoria? by Andrew E. Busch March 2003 What the War on Iraq Means by David Tucker March 2003 Saddam’s Style: Gauging the Chem/Bio Threat by Mackubin T. Owens March 2003 Strategy Revealed!: A Parody by Robert Alt March 2003 Cultural Literacy Best for the Young Person’s Mind and the Nation by Terrence Moore March 2003 Doing It Without Turkey by Mackubin T. Owens March 2003 The Other Wars by David Tucker March 2003 War and Memory: "Gods And Generals" As History by Mackubin T. Owens February 2003 Today’s Youth Need Standards of Study and of Speaking by Terrence Moore February 2003 A Matter of Judgment by Andrew E. Busch February 2003 Balanced Circuit: Debunking the D.C. Circuit Myth by Robert Alt National Review Online February 2003 Patronizing Diversity by John C. Eastman February 2003 A Nation Still At Risk by Terrence Moore January 2003 A Nation Still at Risk by Terrence Moore January 2003 A Union of Freedom and Responsibility by Lucas Morel January 2003 God and Empire: Some Theological Reflections on the State of the Union by Gregory Dunn January 2003 Off to the Races by Andrew E. Busch January 2003 New-School Diversity vs. Old-School Affirmative Action by Lucas Morel January 2003 Finding, Killing, Transforming by David Tucker January 2003 Oops!: Maybe the Two-War Standard Made Sense After All by Mackubin T. Owens January 2003 Black Ambivalence about Affirmative Action? A Grand Opportunity for the Republican Party by Lucas Morel January 2003 Gangs and Citizens: A Review of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York by Sean Mattie January 2003 "We Decided to Stand Against Chaos" by Peter W. Schramm Claremont Review of Books December 2002 The Democratic Party’s Legacy of Racism by Mackubin T. Owens December 2002 Justice at Christmas by John C. Eastman December 2002 A War for Oil? So What? by John Moser December 2002 Quo Vadis?: Trent Lott and GOP Principles by Mackubin T. Owens December 2002 Miracle on Red Square by Andrew E. Busch December 2002 No Easy Way Out for Democrats’ Dilemma on National Security by Andrew E. Busch December 2002 Missles and Aircraft by David Tucker December 2002