July 5, 2004

This issue featured a cover tribute to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan by William Kristol, reflecting on the influential politician and intellectual who passed away in 2003. The magazine also investigated how the Clintons, Al Gore, and the New York Times were revisiting and rewriting recent political history, with coverage by Stephen F. Hayes and William Kristol. A substantial summer reading section offered essays from leading writers including Fred Barnes on D-Day, Jon L. Breen on mysteries, Noemie Emery on Jimmy Carter, Andrew Ferguson on Abraham Lincoln, and Christopher Hitchens on Bob Dylan.