February 23, 2004

This issue paid tribute to the late Senator Daniel P. Moynihan with a cover essay by William Kristol. The magazine also featured Matt Labash's piece on Al Sharpton's confessions and a major article by Robert Kagan and William Kristol examining the justification for the Iraq War in light of David Kay's findings on the absence of weapons of mass destruction, asking whether it was right to go to war on first principles.