PERSPECTIVE

Johnny Rocco’s World
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS

“Vampire-Loving Barmaid Hits Jackpot”
by James O. Tate
The commodification of culture.

Unpalatable Values
by Andrei Navrozov
Culture as gastronomy.

Watching the Money
by George McCartney
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NEWS

The $15 Trillion End Run
by William J. Quirk
An “oligarchy of interests.”

REVIEWS

Decline and Fall
by Tom Piatak

Theodore Dalrymple: Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline

plus

Clark Stooksbury on Steve Sailer’s America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and Inheritance”

Wayne Allensworth on P.D. James‘ The Private Patient

Loyd E. Gross on James Kalb’s The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From England: A Tsunami of Towers
by Derek Turner

VITAL SIGNS

Commonweal: American Mojo
by Douglas Wilson

Discrimination: Who’s Insane?
by Evan McLaren

COLUMNS

Growing Up in America
“Measuring Decline by Prices”
by Paul Craig Roberts

Under the Black Flag
“Laugh Riot”
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Breaking Glass
“Looking Backward”
by Philip Jenkins

The Rockford Files
“The End of Manufacturing”
by Scott P. RichertIn

In the Dark
“What a Drag”
Drag Me to Hell
by George McCartney

What’s Wrong With the World
“The Trouble With Russia”
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS
POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
CONTRASTS

POETRY
John 21.18 and
Anabasis
by Ralph McInerny

ON THE COVER
Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.