October 15, 2001

This issue of The Weekly Standard, published just weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, featured Max Boot's provocative cover essay "The Case for American Empire," arguing for a robust assertion of American power and global leadership. The issue also included extensive war politics coverage from the magazine's leading voices, including Fred Barnes, Noemie Emery, Stephen F. Hayes, Gary Schmitt, and founders Robert Kagan and William Kristol, reflecting on America's response to the attacks and its emerging military campaign in Afghanistan.