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1983-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-date

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Written on Water Archive @ WSJ.com

The Written on Water Archive contains articles written by Mr. Helprin for the Wall Street Journal and for the Journal's Web site "OpinionJournal.com." The articles were written between July 28, 2000 and December 13, 2004.

Title: "The Literary Tenor of the Times."
Source: The Claremont Review of Books
Date: Winter 2006/07: Vol. 7:1

Title: "The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril."
Source: The Claremont Review of Book
Date: Fall 2006: Vol. 6:4

Title: "The War in Lebanon."
Source: The Claremont Review of Books
Date: Fall 2006: Vol. 6:4

Title: "The Unvarnished Immigration Debate."
Source: The Washington Post
Date: 21 May 2006: b7.

Title: "After Diplomacy Fails."
Source: The Washington Post
Date: 13 April 2006: a21.

Title: "Constitution or Tyranny."
Source: The Claremont Review of Books
Date: Spring 2006: Vol. 6:2.

Title: "The Democratic Peace."
Source: The Claremont Review of Books
Date: Winter 2005/2006: Vol. 6:1

Title: "Herd Animals."
Source: The Claremont Review of Books
Date: Fall 2005: Vol. 5:4

Title: Let Us Count the Ways: To Win the War on Terrorism.
Source: Claremont Review of Books. Vol: 4: Issue 4.
Date: Fall 2004.

Title: Two Accusations, Rebutted.
Source: National Review.
Vol: Vol. 56: Issue 12
Pages: 29-30
Date: June 28, 2004.

Title: War In the Absence of Strategic Clarity.
Source: Claremont Review of Books.
Vol: 3: Issue 4.
Date: August 26, 2003.

Title: Analyze This.
Source: National Review.
Vol: Vol. 55: Issue 8.
Pages: 34-36.
Date: May 5, 2003.

Title: "Take My Advice."
Source: Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation From People Who Know a Thing or Two.
Editor: James L. Harmon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster.
Date: 2002.

Title: Defend Civilization Itself
Source: Imprimis
Date: July 2002.
Note: Scroll down Imprimis page for this article.

Title: Coup de Boutir
Source: National Review Online
Date: April 16, 2002.

Title: Phony War.
Source: National Review .
Date: April 22, 2002
Vol: Vol. 54, number 7
Page: 29

Title: What Israel Must Now Do to Survive
Source: Commentary
Date: November 2001
Vol: Vol. 112, number 4.
Pages: 25-29

Title: A Way Out of the Wilderness
Source: Imprimus
Date: January 2001
1996-2000

Title: Defence of the Realm
Source:Wall Street Journal -- Eastern edition
Pages: A23
Date: August 1, 2000

Title: East Wind.
Source: National Review
Vol: Vol. 52, Issue 5
Page: pps. 36-43
Date: March 20, 2000

Title: The Uses of Honor.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern edition
Pages: A30
Date: Mar 6, 2000

Title: Cape and Sword.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern edition
Pages: A14
Date: December 17, 1999

Title: Contrivance.
Source: Forbes ASAP
Pages: 244-250
Date: October 4, 1999

Title: A Fog that Descends from Above.
Source: National Review
Vol: Vol. 51, Issue 8
Pages: 41-44
Date: May 3, 1999.

Title: The Soldiers of Calais.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 233, Issue 31
Pages: Pa22
Date: February 16, 1999.

Title: The Lesson of the Century.
Source: American Heritage
Vol: Vol. 50, Issue 1
Pages: P19, 2p
Date: February/March 1999.

Title: The Millennium --- Getting and Spending.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern edition
Pages: R54
Date: January 11, 1999.

Title: To the Wavering Republicans.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 232, Issue 115
Pages: Pa14
Date:December 11, 1998.

Title: God's Eye View.
Source: Forbes ASAP
Vol: Vol. 162 Issue 12, p121 Date: November 30, 1998.

Title: A Marshall Plan for Russia.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Pages: A22
Date: September 9, 1998.

Title: My Dear Mr. President.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 232, Issue 39
Pages: Pa14, 0P, 1Bw
Date:August 25, 1998.

Title: Turbulence.
Source: The Jerusalem Report.
Date: May 1998.

Title: Statesmanship and its betrayal.
Source: Imprimis (PDF file)
Vol, Issue: 27: 4
Pages: 1-5
Date: April 1998.

Title: Revolution or Dissolution?
Source: Forbes ASAP
Vol, Issue: Vol. 161 Issue 4
Pages: P87, 16P,
Date: February 24,1998.

Title: The War of Lights.
Source: National Review
Vol: Vol 51, Issue 3
Pages: P34, 5p
Date: February 22, 1998.

Title: Even Houdini.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 321, Issue 16,
Pages: Pa16, 0P, 1Bw
Date: January 23, 1998.

Title: On The Future of Conservatism.
Source: Commentary.
Vol, Issue: Volume 103, Number 2
Pages: Pp. 27
Year: 1997.

Title: Saddam Hussein's Day Off.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition
Vol: Vol. 230, Issue 105,
Pages: Pa14, 1Bw
Date: November 26, 1997.

Title: Impeach.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition
Vol: Vol. 230, Issue 72,
Pages: Pa22, 1Bw
Date: October 10, 1997.

Title: Crimson Tide.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition
Vol: Vol. 229, Issue 52
Pages: Pa18, 1Bw
Date: March 17, 1997.

Title: To Fight for Principle.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 229, Issue 10
Pages: Pa16
Date: January 15 1997.

Title: The Rivers of Babylon, and Gulnare of the Sea.
Source: Introduction to The Arabian Nights.
Editors: Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Nora A. Smith.
Source: Book of the Month Club
Date: 1996.

Title: The Acceleration of Tranquility.
Source: Forbes ASAP
Vol: Vol. 158 Issue 13
Pages: P14, 7P, 3C
Date: December 2, 1996.

Title: Table of Inflation. (poem)
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 6, Column 4
Date: November 29, 1996.

Title: Mr. Clinton's Foreign Policy.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 228, Issue 30
Pages: Pa10, 1Bw
Date: August 12, 1996.

Title: A spinner of myths.
Source: Newsweek.
Vol, Issue: Volume 127, Number 22
Pages: Pp. 37
Year: May 27, 1996.

Title: Mr. Vistica's navy.
Source: Weekly Standard
Vol, Issue: v1n27,
Pages: Pp. 30-33.
Date: March 25, 1996.

Title: The Defense of Taiwan.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition
Vol: Vol. 227 Issue 47
Pages: Pa20, 1 Map
Date: March 7, 1996.

Title: GOP Should Beware This 'Bomb.'
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 15, Column 1
Date: February 28, 1996.

Title: Let Dole Lead.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition
Vol: Vol. 227 Issue 24
Pages: Pa10, 1Bw
Date: February 2, 1996.

Title: Enchantment in Statist Economics.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 227, Issue 10
Pages: Pa12
Date: January 15, 1996.

Title: For A New Concert of Europe.
Source: Commentary.
Vol, Issue: Volume 101, Number 1
Pages: Pp. 30
Year: January 1996.


1991-1995

Title: Helprin and I.
In: Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I. Publisher: The Ecco Press.
Date: 1995.

Title: Lucas.
Source: Introduction to Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of my Son.
Author:Gordon Livingston.
Forward by Mark Helprin.
Publisher: Harper, San Francisco
Date: 1995.

Title: The National Prospect: a Symposium.
Source: Commentary
Vol, Issue: v100n5,
Pages: page 23, 64+
Date: November 1995

Title: Diversity is Not a Virtue.
In: Reinventing The American People : Unity And Diversity Today
Place: Washington, D.C. : Grand Rapids, Mich.
Publisher: Ethics And Public Policy Center ; William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
Year: 1995.

Title: What To Do About Terrorism, Really.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 225, Issue 91
Pages: Pa14
Date: May 10, 1995.

Title: To the New Congressional Majority.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 225 Issue 1
Pages: P8, 1Bw
Date: January 3, 1995.

Title: Melville: The Uses of Oblivion.
Publication: Introduction to Moby Dick.
Source: Barnes & Noble special edition
Date: 1994.

Title: In Appreciation of Edward Schmidt.
Source: The Classicist. Vol: Number one, 1994-1995.

Title: Diversity is Not a Virtue.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 224, Issue 103
Pages: Pa8, 1 Cartoon
Date: November 25, 1994

Title: A Soldier of the Not Great War.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Vol: Vol. 224, Issue 56
Pages: Pa22
Date: September 20, 1994.

Title: Against The Dehumanization of Art.
Source: New Criterion
Vol: Vol. 13 Issue 1
Pages: P91, 4P
Date: September 1994.

Title: My Brilliant Korea.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 14, Column 3
Date: July 25, 1994.

Title: School for Scandal.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 8, Column 4
Date: March 25, 1994.

Title: The Arcadian Lyricism of Edward Schmidt.
Source: American Arts Quarterly Date: Spring 1993.
Note: Abridgement without permission.

Title: Lonely Confederacy.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 19, Column 2
Date: September 10, 1993.

Title: Stay Out of Bosnia.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 20, Column 3
Date: September 9, 1993.

Title: Rodney Dangerfield Meets I-601.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Editorial Page
Date: July 9, 1993.
Note: Unsigned editorial.

Title: Military Reality in Yugoslavia.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 10, Column 3
Date: May 6, 1993.

Title: My Wife as Attorney General.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 16, Column 3
Date: February 9, 1993.

Title: At Rest Between the Wars.
Source: The Congressional Record.
Vol: 139, No. 10.
Date: January 28, 1993
Note: Speech originally delivered at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, October 15, 1992.

Title: The Way Out of the Wilderness.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 10, Column 4
Date: November 11, 1992.

Title: Why Bush Will Win.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 16, Column 4
Date: October 27, 1992.

Title: I Dodged The Draft, and I Was Wrong.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 14, Column 4
Date: October 16, 1992.

Title: I, Dodged The Draft--and I Was Wrong.
Source: Human Events.
Vol, Issue: Volume Lii, Number 44
Pages: 14
Date: October 3, 1992

Title: Of Conventions and Courage.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 12, Column 3
Date: August 19, 1992.

Title: Green Eggs and Ham.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Editorial Page
Date: April 27, 1992.
Note: Unsigned editorial.

Title: Baker Should Resign.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 20, Column 3
Date: April 15, 1992.

Title: Mr. Dooley on New Hampshire.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 20, Column 3
Date: February 18, 1992.

Title: This Cease-fire in Yugoslavia Has A Better Shot.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 12, Column 3
Date: January 15, 1992.

Title: The Power of Russia Alone.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 10, Column 4
Date: December 27, 1991.

Title: Inspectors vs. Epicures.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Editorial Page
Date: November 11, 1991.
Note: Unsigned editorial.

Title: A Palestinian State With Full Israeli Security.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 18, Column 3
Date: September 26, 1991.

Title: The Battle Won, The War Lost.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 6, Column 3
Date: July 3, 1991.

Title: Europe Hasn't Seen The End Of War.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 12, Column 4
Date: May 31, 1991.

Title: The One Great Lesson of The War.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 14, Column 3
Date: February 26, 1991.

Title: Strategy for a Ground Attack.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 8, Column 4
Date: January 18, 1991.


1983-1990

Title: City of Sunlight and Shadow.
Source: Introduction to Manhattan Lightscape: Photographs by Nathaniel Lieberman.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Date: 1990.

Title: The True Builders of Cities.
In: Visionary San Francisco
Place: [San Francisco] : Munich : New York, Ny, USA :
Publisher: San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art ; Prestel ; Distributed By
Neues Pub. Co.,
Year: 1990.

Title:Iraq: A Military Analysis.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Pages: Section A, Pa14
Date: December 7, 1990.

Title: San Francisco, 1969.
Source: Harper's Magazine
Vol: Vol. 281 Issue 1685
Pages: P32, 2P
Date: October 1990

Title: Washington Lays a Budget Egg.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 18, Column 4
Date: October 23, 1990.

Title: The Gulf as Prelude to a Soviet Coup.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 26, Column 3
Date: October 2, 1990.

Title: Notice To Iraq: Hostage-taking is a War Crime.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 14, Column 3
Date: August 23, 1990.

Title: Saddam In The Shadow of His Undoing.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section A; Page 12, Column 3
Date: August 6, 1990.

Title: A Single Bullet.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 12, Column 4
Date: January 12, 1990.

Title: View of the Hudson.
Source: Favorite Places.
Publisher: American Express Publishing.
Date: 1989.

Title: The Russian Reformation.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 14, Column 4
Date: April 28, 1989.

Title: Hypnotist Gorbachev Conjures an Arms Reduction.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 20, Column 3
Date: December 13, 1988.

Title: War In Europe: Thinking the Unthinkable.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 28, Column 3
Date: November 1, 1988.

Title: The Canon under Siege.
Source: The New Criterion
Date: 1988 Sept., 7:1, 33-40
Note: Adapted from introduction to The Best American Short Stories, 1988.

Title: Dukakis and Deweyism.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 16, Column 3
Date: August 1, 1988.

Title: American Jews and Israel : A Symposium.
Source: Commentary
Vol, Issue: 85:2
Pages: 40-41
Date: February 1988.

Title: God is . . . like the linnet. . . .
In: How Can I Find God?
Editor: James Martin, SJ
Publisher: Triumph Books
Page: 64.
Date: 1997.

Title: The Imperial Congress.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 32, Column 3
Date: April 9, 1987.

Title: On Mistaking Cultural Institutions for Culture
Source: The New Criterion.
Date: Summer 1986.
Note: Published Without a Title

Title: Is Separate Stronger?
Review Of: How Nato Weakens The West
By Melvyn Krauss. 271 Pp. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Source: The New York Times
Section: Section 7; Page 11, Column 1; Book Review Desk
Date: November 9, 1986.

Title: Harvard's Point of Order.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Section: Section 1; Page 34, Column 3
Date: March 12, 1986.

Title: The Centipede Primps for Geneva.
Source: Wall Street Journal --- Eastern edition
Date: Nov 18, 1985.

Title: Making Sense of Intelligence
Source: Wall Street Journal --- Eastern edition
Date: Nov 7, 1985.

Title: Italy's No Less an Ally for Having Let Abbas Go.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Date:Oct 17, 1985.

Title: America as Hostage: Lessons from Iran
SourceL Wall Street Journal---Eastern edition
Date: July 1, 1985.

Title: How The City Shapes Its Writers; Brooklyn's Comforting Infinitude.
Source: The New York Times
Section: Section 6; Part 2, Page 62, Column 3; Magazine Desk
Date: April 28, 1985.

Title:The Middle East: Polemic in a Peanut Shell.
Source: Wall Street Journal -- Eastern Edition,
Date: April 15, 1985.

Title: A Christmas Past.
Source: The New York Times
Section: Section C; Page 1, Column 5; Living Desk
Date: December 21, 1983.

Title: Drawing The Line In Europe: The Case For Missile Deployment.
Source: New York Times Magazine
Section: Section 6; Page 53, Column 3
Pages: 52-64
Date: December 4, 1983.

Title: An Apparition of the Villa Doria Pamphilli.
Source: The New Criterion.
Date: November, 1983.

Title: American Jews & Israel: Seizing a New Opportunity.
Source: The New York Times Magazine.
Date: October 7, 1982.
Note: Title supplied by The New York Times.

Title: What Transit Strike.
Source: The New York Times.
Section: Op-Ed Page
Date: March 21, 1980.