SURVIVING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY—June 2008 by Chronicles • June 1, 2008 • Printer-friendly

PERSPECTIVE
The Pursuit of Happiness
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS
The Decline and Fall of the American Economy
by Paul Craig Roberts
Offshoring our security.

Outgrowing Agriculture
by Katherine Dalton
Food and national security.

States of Autarky
by Greg Kaza
The benefits of self-sufficiency.

It’s 2028, and All Is Well
by Srdja Trifkovic
The diary of an aging counterrevolutionary.

REVIEWS
The Skeptical Mind
by Derek Turner

John Gray: Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

plus

James O. Tate on Kevin Bazzana’s Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical
Prodigy

Catharine Savage Brosman on Paul Lake’s Cry Wolf

Jonathan Ellis on Michael J. Gerson’s Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace
America’s Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don’t)

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter From South Carolina: Christmas in Abbeville
by Jack Trotter

VITAL SIGNS
Music: Soundtrack to the New Old South
by Robert Lurie

COLUMNS
Sins of Omission
by Roger D. McGrath

Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Breaking Glass
by Philip Jenkins

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

In the Dark
Stop-Loss
by George McCartney

The Hundredth Meridian
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS
POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
“The Food Crisis”
by Gregory McNamee

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Rilievo Con Figura Di Menade and
Mrs M by Constance Rowell Mastores

ON THE COVER
Cover photo by Dorthea Lange.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.

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