May 5, 2003

This issue featured Max Boot's analysis of post-invasion Iraq strategy in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein. Stephen F. Hayes investigated the regime's financial networks and the journalists and politicians allegedly bribed by Saddam's cash. The magazine also included Christopher Hitchens on Malcolm Muggeridge and James J. Buckley on John Henry Newman, offering cultural and intellectual commentary alongside coverage of the Iraq War's immediate aftermath.