July 17, 2006

This issue examined the political isolation of hawkish Democrats through the lens of Senator Joe Lieberman's primary challenge, with Matthew Continetti analyzing the purging of liberal interventionists from the Democratic Party. Noemie Emery offered historical perspective by revisiting how Truman's legacy had been distorted in contemporary debate, while Dan Blumenthal and William Kristol addressed the immediate foreign policy threat posed by North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his ballistic missile program.