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LOVE YOUR ENEMIES How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt By Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks begins ''Love Your Enemies'' with a scene, a moment [...]

ULYSSES GRANT's was an unexpected American life, mysteriously comprehensive in its range and--the more that people have thought about him--in its meanings. A parable of the mysteries of the ordinary, [...]

AROUND THE YEAR 1330, a poet and Buddhist monk named Kenko wrote Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)--an eccentric, sedate and gemlike assemblage of his thoughts on life, death, weather, manners, aesthetics, [...]

Frank Capra's movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington came out in 1939. I, too, arrived in 1939, a couple of weeks after Hitler went into Poland. I was born in [...]

LYTTON STRACHEY made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short legs. Arnold--headmaster of Rugby, father of Matthew Arnold, paragon of manly 19th-century Christian rectitude and one of the subjects [...]

AT FORT CLARK in West Texas one night in the 1870s, my great-grandmother Ella Mollen Morrow was asleep in the officers' quarters. Her husband, Maj. Albert Morrow, was several days' […]

ON A PERFECT OCTOBER DAY in 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer--mistress of John Kennedy, friend of Jackie Kennedy and ex-wife of a top CIA man, Cord Meyer--was murdered in the rarefied [...]

A BE ROSENTHAL of the New York Times and Norman Mailer stood talking at Carl Bernstein's 50th birthday party. It was Valentine's Day, 1994. The room in Bernstein's apartment in [...]

What follows is taken from a speech given by WFB at Kent State University on April 1. In the light of what has since happened, and what looms as United [...]

The series of civil wars, social havoc and financial crises which took place in the 20th century have not only contributed to the demise of men, but put forward development, as well. Such events have taught men how to fight for freedom, cope with monumental problems and use military prowess for a cause.

No soldier since Washington has had his roman virtues, and so significantly shaped a peace In my mind, a diagram of american military history might begin with a parallelogram of [...]

Exuma, consisting of two narrow islands connected by a single-lane bridge, is perhaps the tranquil and charming spot in the Bahamas to visit. Its leisurely pace is reminiscent of an earlier time, and its 5,600 residents are very friendly with tourists.

DAY OF EMPIRE How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall. By Amy Chua. 396 pp. Doubleday. $27.95. The emperor Claudius thought about the dynamics of imperial [...]

DEEP ECONOMY The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. By Bill McKibben. 261 pp. Times Books/Henry Holt & Company. $25. Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim (in ''Slaughterhouse-Five'') had a famous [...]

THE TORTURE DEBATE IN AMERICA Edited by Karen J. Greenberg. 414 pp. Cambridge University Press. Paper, $18.99. TORTURE Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? Edited by Kenneth [...]

the first years of the millennium have become, for interesting reasons, a golden age of popular political biography. The young British writer Simon Sebag Montefiore has just produced Stalin: The [...]

Speedboats have the kick of an amusement park--spray in the face, a noisy, bucking rush across the water. I prefer boating at the other extreme, in a kayak or canoe. [...]

For this department a distinguished writer is asked to read the magazine's feature articles before publication and to comment or elaborate on them or take issue with them. Wendy mitman [...]

Elvis in the Morning, by William F. Buckley Jr. (Harcourt, 328 pages, $25) An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters might peck for a year or [...]

Mr. Morrow is an essayist for Time magazine and University Professor at Boston University. Pat Buchanan tells his people to 'mount up and ride to the sound of the guns.' [...]