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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2003. For five decades, ISI has fostered in successive generations an appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, America's tradition of ordered liberty. Through a variety of initiatives, ISI seeks to instruct and to remember. For, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in Warning to the West, "A people which no longer remembers has lost its history and its soul."

ISI Books serves the Institute's broader national program by publishing books, guides, and other resources that recall and engage the perennial ideas that have shaped our culture. In just a few short years, our press has acquired a reputation for publishing titles that allow readers to acquire a better understanding of the Western heritage and the principles that have animated its development. For a growing number of individuals, ISI and ISI Books are a primary educational resource. As a prominent critic once told us, a person "could get a decent education reading you alone." Colleges and universities grant degrees, but genuine educations are increasingly acquired through organizations like ISI.

To reflect this reality, we are pleased to announce with this anniversary catalogue our new motto: "A UNIVERSITY IN PRINT." This phrase conveys the aim and comprehensiveness of our press; it also expresses our mandate as part of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute—for while ISI Books is "a university in print," it is but a part of ISI's national effort to impart traditional liberal learning. Such an education is the foundation of our freedoms, and has motivated ISI's fifty-year effort to educate for liberty.

A motto is not all that is new this season. ISI Books also introduces with this catalogue a new series of original translations called "Crosscurrents." This series will bring into English for the first time contemporary and classic works compatible with our press's mission. We inaugurate the Crosscurrents series with a powerful recent work by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia in Collapse, which includes an afterword written specially by Solzhenitsyn for our edition. The second volume in the series, Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World, by widely respected French political philosopher Chantal Delsol, is as good an analysis of postmodern man as one is likely to find anywhere.

In addition to ISI's fiftieth anniversary, 2003 marks the centennial of the birth of two extraordinary Englishmen, George Orwell and Malcolm Muggeridge. We commemorate their respective legacies with landmark works by John Rodden and Gregory Wolfe. This season we also make available again Russell Kirk's monumental study, The Roots of American Order, and introduce several new and innovative titles, such as The Literary Book of Economics, by Michael Watts; The Trial of Man, by Craig Bernthal; and Creed & Culture, a collection of essays by a roster of significant religious thinkers. And this season, Notre Dame law professor Gerard Bradley contributes A Student's Guide to the Study of Law to ISI's Guides to the Major Disciplines series.

Finally, we offer to our readers Choosing the Right College 2004, the latest edition of a college guide that has won ISI national acclaim. In it the reader will find "the whole truth" about important institutions of higher learning. Nowhere else will parents and students find comprehensive overviews of the political, academic, and social atmospheres at America's top schools. This new edition includes more schools than ever and has plenty of bonus features—including a core curriculum guide for each school and a new section that indicates the right questions to ask when choosing a college.

In addition to offering this spring our largest selection of new books, one can profitably supplement one's education by subscribing to ISI's many quality journals.

ISI has been in the education business for fifty years. With your encouragement and support, we will continue to contribute to the West's "great conversation" for a half-century more, helping Americans obtain the education they deserve. ISI Books is honored to play a role in that important endeavor. As always, thank you for your patronage.

Best regards,


Jeffrey O. Nelson, Publisher

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