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On the Trail of the Bush-McCain Monster
by Andrew E. Busch
August 2008

Will 2008 Be Another 1980?
by Andrew E. Busch
August 2008

McCain Campaign Faces Unexpected Risk: What to do If Iraq Goes Too Well?
by Andrew E. Busch
July 2008

Obama is Straight Out of The West Wing in More Ways Than One, But Are the Credits Rolling?
by Andrew E. Busch
July 2008

The Mendacity of Hope: Rewriting the Story of the Faith-Based Initiative
by Joseph Knippenberg
July 2008

Haditha Again: Justice? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Justice!
by Mackubin T. Owens
June 2008

Duty, Devotion, and Love
by Terrence Moore
June 2008

Reflections on Memorial Day
by Mackubin T. Owens
National Review Online
May 2008

The Game
by Patrick J. Garrity
May 2008

Americans Under Fire: Three Accounts of Fighting the War on Terror
by Mackubin T. Owens
The Weekly Standard
May 2008

A Sure Thing?
by David Forte
May 2008

Democratic Republicanism in the Primaries, Part I
by Joseph M. Knippenberg
May 2008

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