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Articles in March 22, 2004 issue of National Review

• In Fox News poll, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry tie at 45 percent apiece in prospective matchup
• National Journal ranks senators on a liberal-to-conservative scale, and guess who the very most liberal senator of 2003 was?
• One-note Edwards
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The passion of the reviewers
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Pure Simon
  by Michael Potemra
• Ben Chandler wins House seat in Kentucky, marking first Democratic victory in a special election since 1991
• In testimony before Congress, Alan Greenspan said the deficit should be eliminated through spending cuts, not tax increases
• The proprietors of Saudi Arabia are trying to lighten up the country's image
• Safety in numbers: the limits of unilateralism
  by John O'Sullivan
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Good day for democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Kerry letter to Bush: "Over the last week, you and your campaign have initiated a widespread attack on my service in Vietnam, my decision to speak out to end that war, and my commitment to the defense of this nation
• When it appeared that Kerry would win the nomination, we were sure of one thing: Teresa Heinz Kerry would be good for some entertainment
• Why must college be so costly?
  by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
• Notes & asides
  by Daniel R. Shawe
• Holland Acts
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Voice of the people
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Rates of teen pregnancy and abortion continue to decline, according to Alan Guttmacher Institute
• Scott Peterson is being tried for double murder
• The American bishops of the Catholic Church selected a National Review Board of laymen to investigate the "causes and context" of the sexual-abuse scandal
• Money makes his world go 'round: an unknown story about John Kerry
  by Byron York
• Tumbling down
  by Peter Robinson
• Crooked thought
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Digby Jones of Britain's Confederation of Business Industry: "I don't like to hear talk of 'Benedict Arnold CEOs,' which is completely unfair
• There are strange doings in Palm Beach County, and we don't mean hanging chads
• Liberal education
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Virginia is for taxers; are Republicans Republicans in the Old Dominion? Anywhere else?
  by Stephen Moore
• To the bitter end
  by Ronald Radosh
• Israel frenzy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Jay Leno: "The Department of Homeland Security is now working with the United States Post Office
• Rick Weiss of the Washington Post is one of the most respected and influential science reporters around, and deservedly so
• Is it right that old goats in positions of power—professors, bosses, clergymen—nuzzle their charges?
• The abolition of sex: don't worry—only in the law. Only!
  by John Derbyshire
• Works
  by Sarah Bramwell
• Dubya's to lose
  by Peter Murphy
• Iraqis have proposed a constitution
• New Paltz, N.Y., is a Rip Van Winkle-ish town on the edge of the Catskills, founded by French Calvinists three centuries ago
• Who's got a right to sing the blues?
• Going timesless: who dares give up the 'newspaper of record'?
  by Jay Nordlinger
• 2004 Bermuda Cruise
• Kerry fact & fiction
  by Jay McConville
• President Bush, speaking at the Republican Governors Association, showed some of the feistiness that his well-wishers have been yearning to see
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide has left Haiti, and the Marines have come in
• Forbes magazine released its annual list of billionaires, and one of the newcomers is J. K. Rowling
• 2004 Ad
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Blyth spirit
  by Kate O'Beirne
• For and agin'
  by Kenneth Morrill
• Last of the Democratic bathwater, John Edwards runs down the drain
• An Iraqi constitution has bumped into existence
• Daniel Boorstin was the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, and he studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale
• 'He that stands it now …' A writer responds to his critics
  by David Frum
• Shrewd, but small
  by John Derbyshire
• Solving America's retirement problem
• Finally, the mainstream press has taken some substantive interest in Mackubin Thomas Owens's NR cover story about John Kerry's 1971 congressional testimony
• During a recent Oval Office visit, President Bush and German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder had a fine old time, yukking it up and letting bygones be bygones
• A battle, joined
• Not amnesty but attrition: the way to go on immigration
  by Mark Krikorian
• Dutch, reformed
  by S.T. Karnick