PERSPECTIVE

Connoisseur of Chaos
by Thomas Fleming

Worth doing badly.

VIEWS

Liberality, the Basis of Culture
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.

The ultimate homeschool.

Wall of Sound
by Aaron D. Wolf

Noise as the basis of culture.

Social Security’s War on Families
by Doug Bandow

A current crisis and a coming disaster.

REVIEWS

A Humble Love
by Derek Turner

A.N. Wilson: Betjeman: A Life

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Joseph Pearce on The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005, Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney, eds.

Srdja Trifkovic on John O’Sullivan’s The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World

Clyde Wilson on Anne Farrow’s, Joel Lang’s, and Jennifer Frank’s Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery

Catharine Savage Brosman on Pierre Corneille’s The Theatre of Illusion, Richard Wilbur, trans.

Jonathan Ellis on Jake Halpern’s Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America’s Favorite Addiction

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Texas: Gott Mit Uns
by Egon Richard Tausch

Letter From a Monastery: Engulfed in Solitude
by Michael J. Sauter

VITAL SIGNS

CONSERVATISM: The Enigmatic Professor Strauss, Part II
by Claude Polin

THE MEDIA: The Theater of the Mind, R.I.P.
by Robert Lurie

COMMONWEAL: A National Championship for Duke
by John Willson

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

LETTER TO THE BISHOP
by Joe Ecclesia

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Mr. Brooks
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

On Clearing Land and The Old Workbench
by Eric Sellin

ON THE COVER

Cover by George McCartney, Jr. Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.