February 10, 2003

This issue focused on affirmative action and diversity policy with essays by Charles Krauthammer and Stanley Kurtz, while also addressing the Bush administration's foreign policy direction in the lead-up to the Iraq War. Contributors including Fred Barnes, Max Boot, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Stephen F. Hayes, and William Kristol examined the end of appeasement, the Clinton administration's foreign policy record, and the morality of American interventionism abroad. The magazine presented a neoconservative perspective on both domestic policy and the emerging conflict in Baghdad.