"Be a Man, Take Risks, Win Money and Honor," The American Enterprise, September 2000, pp. 38-39.
Essays
The Right to Be Respectable
"The Right to Be Respectable," review of Free Speech and the Politics of Identity, by David A. J. Richards, Times Literary Supplement, 11 August 2000.
Bruni and Machiavelli on Civic Humanism
Where We Stand: The Conservative End of Education
"Where We Stand: The Conservative End of Education," National Review, 3 July 2000, 25-26.
The Twofold Meaning of Unum
“The Twofold Meaning of Unum,” Reinventing the American People, Robert Royal, ed., Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995, pp. 103-113. French translation, "E pluribus unum: la double signification du principe d'unité dans la devise des Etats-Unis," Esprits Libres, Politique et Culture, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 6-18.
The Trouble with Stanley
"The Trouble with Stanley," review of The Trouble with Principle, by Stanley Fish, National Review, 7 February 2000, 46-48.
The Cuckold in Machiavelli’s Mandragola
"The Cuckold in Machiavelli's Mandragola," The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli; Essays on the Literary Works, Vickie B. Sullivan, ed., New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 1-29.
Translating Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
"Translating Tocqueville's Democracy in America," with Delba Winthrop, The Tocqueville Review, Vol. 21 (2000), 153-164.
Majority Tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville
“Majority Tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville,” Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams, Peter Dennis Bathory and Nancy L. Schwartz, eds., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, pp. 289-297.
Naturally Proud
"Naturally Proud," review of The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama, Times Literary Supplement, 16 July 1999.