BIRD'S EYE
What Do You Mean, "a Good War"?
By Karl Zinsmeister
It is sometimes said, including by me, that Americans don’t know as much history as they ought to. But there is one era that many Americans have studied carefully—and that is our own Civil War epoch.

SCAN
Short News and Commentary
Playing Qatar. Reining in unions. True-blue Libertarian. Very tough love. Nil at Ground Zero. Happy to be TV-free. Capitalist miracles

POLITICO
The GOP Lock
By Grover Norquist
The GOP lock is on. For how long?

"LIVE" WITH TAE
Catherine Crier
Who better to write an angry new book called The Case Against Lawyers than a former prosecutor, state judge, civil litigator, and legal journalist? TAE interviews Catherine Crier and gets an earful on irresponsible attorneys.

FORWARD OBSERVER
Praise the Boom, Don't Bury It
By James K. Glassman
Praise, don’t bury, the ’90s boom.

TRANSCRIPT
Conservatism and Liberality
By Andrew Sullivan
Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan sketches political philosopher Michael Oakeshott’s quirky fusion of conservatism and liberality.

IN REAL LIFE
Nursery Lessons
By Brian Connelly
Four years in a fancy child care center convince one man that more children need to be told “no.”

FLASHBACK
Man without a Country
By Bill Kauffman
Legally exiled from America? It happened once.

NOW PLAYING
Bull Schmidt
By Josh Larsen
About Schmidt is Hollywood’s latest smug rendition of the Midwest and the dimwitted dullards who supposedly live there.

TERROR WATCH
Time to Woo India?
By Thomas Donnelly
America needs new overseas partners. India’s looking good.

WORKING LUNCH
Free Market Pharmaceutical Coverage
By Joseph Antos
A free-market alternative to help retirees afford prescription drugs is garnering attention from the media and Congress.

THE ECONOMIST
Why I'll Vote for the Dividend Tax Cut
By Christopher Cox
Congressman Chris Cox wants to end the double taxation of dividends so the stock market can do its work.

BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
Tilting the Playing Field: School, Sports, Sex, and Title IX by Jessica Gavora * Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes,and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones * A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America by Michael Bernstein  

DIGEST
Summaries of Important Research
How guns make people safe. Bush’s all-American foreign policy. The uninsured are shrinking? Colors on the corporate balance sheet.Martian rights. AIDS won’t help Asia. Inbred in Iraq.

OPINION PULSE
The Latest Survey Data
Southerners versus non-Southerners: religion, alcohol, race, etc. Tax reform a top priority.

SIDELIGHTS
News Scraps
Minks on the sidewalk. We'll kill bin Laden. Pork for education, no kidding. Starving in Berlin? Free Qomolangma! Coffin spirit.