PERSPECTIVE If Pigs Could Flyby Thomas Fleming Admitting defeat. VIEWS Iraq as “Intelligence Failure”by Wayne Allensworth We told you so. Exiting Iraqby Srdja Trifkovic The least undesirable end. The War on Terror Endedby Leon Hadar And the winner was not the United States. Reject False Prophetsby Ted Galen Carpenter The first step in mitigating the...
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THE LEADERS WE DESERVE II: February 2007
PERSPECTIVE Pigs Is Pigsby Thomas Fleming Pretending with principles. VIEWS It’s the War, Stupid!by Leon Hadar Election 2006 and beyond. Committing Political Suicideby Doug Bandow The 109th Congress. Lost in Iraqby The Hon. John J. Duncan, Jr. The election, Republicans, and conservatives. The End of the Rove Era in Republican Politicsby Tom Pauken Time to...
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THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE: THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN ORDER: January 2007
PERSPECTIVE Two Oinks for Democracyby Thomas Fleming Looking out for number one. VIEWS The Declaration of Independence and Philosophic Superstitionsby Donald W. Livingston Meaning without culture. Nationalism or Patriotismby Thomas Storck Love of an idea versus love of place. Harry Jaffa and the Historical Imaginationby Tom Landess Reconfiguring souls. NEWS WMD Negotiations Must Be Based...
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Christendom Under Siege
PERSPECTIVE Jihad's Fifth Column by Thomas Fleming Collaborating with terror. VIEWS Eurabian Nights by Srdja Trifkovic A horror travelogue. Fictional Muslims, Nonfictional Muslims by Derek Turner The Flying Inn revisited. Holding a New Line by Alberto Carosa Pope Benedict, Islam, and the media. NEWS Time to Talk Turkey by Christie Davies Why we must say no. REVIEWS War of the Worlds by Jack Trotter Philip Rieff: My Life Among ...
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The Disappearing Border—November 2006
PERSPECTIVE El Gringo y El Mexicanoby Thomas FlemingAn amalgamation. VIEWS The Economic Realities of U.S. Immigrationby David A. HartmanCounting the cost. Pure Personalityby Chilton Williamson, Jr.The meaning of Francisco “Pancho” Villa. Immigration, the Border, and the Fate of the Landby Gregory McNameeNotes on a crisis. How Santa Ana Became SanTanaby Steven GreenhutAn irrelevant border. Islam,...
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Saving American Manufacturing—October 2006
PERSPECTIVE The Root of All Evilby Thomas FlemingPolicy, purpose, and pleonexia. VIEWS It’s Hard Times, Cotton Mill Girlsby Tom LandessManufacturing, gone with the wind. How Neutral Is the Fed?by Greg Kaza A measure of humility. Giving America Priority in Trade Policyby William R. HawkinsFreeing American trade. The Price of Globalismby David A. HartmanAssessing the fallout....
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MONKEYS IN THE CLASSROOM: September 2006
PERSPECTIVE Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off by Thomas Fleming The right to an opinion. VIEWS Educated at Home by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. The pleasure that comes with struggle. The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion by Tom Landess Shaping society. Education to the ...
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Too Much Monkey Business: Inherit the Agitprop
Watching a disaster or beholding a disintegration is inherently destructive, but there is also an element of morbid fascination. Might there be, as well, a redemptive element in tracking the entropic parabola of the great fall of yet another Humpty Dumpty? The national coverage of the recent conventions of the Episcopalian Church, U.S.A., and of...
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We Are All Socialists Now—August 2006
PERSPECTIVE Socialism Is Theft by Thomas FlemingThe thievery we know and love. VIEWS The Natural History of the Night Watchman Stateby Donald W. LivingstonA culture of autonomy. Thoughts on Socialismby John LukacsThe failure of Economic Man. The Idea of Socialismby Claude PolinA heresy and its legacy. Marx’s and Engels’ Illegitimate Offspringby David A. HartmanA nation...
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Porter Goss and the CIA
Porter Goss wasn’t in a mood to discuss his May 5 departure from his post as CIA director after only two years on the job. Following the announcement of his resignation, Goss cryptically told reporters that his leaving was “just one of those mysteries.” Indeed, it was—neither Goss nor President Bush was in a hurry...
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30 Years Fighting the Culture War—July 2006
PERSPECTIVE Violent Revolution by Thomas Fleming Women in bondage. VIEWS Hollywood Blues by George Garrett A culture of grand illusions. Culture War by Clyde Wilson Fighting on. Dressing for Progress by Andrei Navrozov A culture of lovelessness. An American Dilemma by Tom Landess The Episcopal Church (1976-2006). RUOK? AWHFY? by James O. Tate Communication in the vast wasteland. O Literature, Thou Art Sick by Catharine Savage Brosman The consequences of theory. INTERVIEW Rendering ...
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Freedom or Tyranny?—June 2006
PERSPECTIVE Imposing Utopiaby Thomas FlemingConcealing despotism. VIEWS Cincinnatus, Call the Office!by Clyde WilsonPublic service versus the American System. Judging for the Peopleby Stephen B. PresserDemocracy, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution. Democracy: The Enlightened Wayby Claude PolinThe your-fault society. REVIEWS A Government We Deserveby H.A. Scott Trask Sean Wilentz: The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to...
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What God Hath Joined Together—May 2006
PERSPECTIVE New Wine in Old Bottlesby Thomas FlemingThe Christian war on the family. VIEWS The Perpetual Familyby Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.From Rome to Las Vegas to Blackheath and back. Love on the Rocksby Aaron D. WolfA new covenant. Rejecting Marriageby Christopher J. CheckThe elephant in the room. NEWS Staying the Courseby Edward A. OlsenThe unintended consequences....
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The Vanishing America—April 2006
PERSPECTIVE Where the Ashley and the Cooper Rivers Meet…by Thomas FlemingLife among the tombs. VIEWS Importing Prosperityby Clyde WilsonOut-Babbitting Babbitt. An Invisible Borderby Chilton Williamson, Jr.Defending fausses communautés. Anywhere But Hereby Aaron D. WolfThe dark imaginations of eSlavery. NEWS China and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.by Ted Galen CarpenterCarrots and sticks. REVIEWS Enemies Right and...
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The Supreme Court v. the American Dream—March 2006
PERSPECTIVE The Royal Prerogativeby Thomas FlemingIndispensable means. VIEWS Does the Federal Government Protect Private Property?by Stephen B. PresserLife, liberty, and takings. Latter-Day Beggarsby Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.A lesson in apocalyptic economics from the City on Seven Hills. Unjust Compensationby Scott P. RichertWhat’s not to love? NEWS Property Rights Redefinedby Steven GreenhutA new kind of blight. REVIEWS...
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New Words for Old—February 2006
PERSPECTIVE Lost in Translation by Thomas FlemingThe art of reality. VIEWS Mind Your Language!by James O. TateA sea of ruined words. Manners, Morals, Languageby Chilton Williamson, Jr.Forsaking the Beau-Ideal. A Trip to Smart-Mouth Collegeby Aaron D. WolfThe loss of sacred words. NEWS Riots in the Suburbsby Claude PolinThe programmed suicide of France. REVIEWS Seasoned Travelsby Catharine...
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Small Is Beautiful—January 2006
PERSPECTIVE Fortifying the Back Yardby Thomas FlemingUnearthing the remnants of real life. VIEWS Think Locally, Act Locallyby Scott P. RichertGood stewardship. Outgrowing the Pastby Tom LandessEminent domain down South. Aristotelian Worms in the Leviathanby Donald W. LivingstonHobbes versus the human scale. Small Is Beautiful Versus Big Is Bestby Joseph PearceE.F. Schumacher and true conservatism. STORY...
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The Beauty of Holiness: Building for Eternity—December 2005
PERSPECTIVE The Beauty of Holinessby Thomas Fleming Fixing our gaze. VIEWS The Romantic Reactionby Joseph PearceTranscending the divide. The Loving Lookby Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.A cure for the epicure. Conservatism as Medicineby Claude PolinNature versus the state of nature. Pugin and the Gothic Dreamby James PatrickTheology in the architecture. NEWS Did the Supreme Court Destroy Property...
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Reviving the American Dream—November 2005
PERSPECTIVE Agrarianism From Hesiod to Bradford by Thomas Fleming Life in community. VIEWS The Old South, the New South, and the Real South by Tom Landess Taking off the Yankee spectacles. Reattacking Leviathan by Mark Royden Winchell Starving the beast. The Case for American Secession by Kirkpatrick Sale Still a good idea. The Writer as Farmer by James Everett Kibler Under Heaven. NEWS Solving U.S. Problems in ...
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Importing Jihad—October 2005
PERSPECTIVE Christians Against Terrorismby Thomas Fleming Counterterrorism is hell. VIEWS Promoting Militant Islam Abroadby Ronald L. HatchettU.S. policy blunders. Learning From Canada’s Mistakesby James BissettTerror along the border. Welcoming Muhammadby Scott P. RichertAbandoning that which is our own. NEWS Rivers of Bloodby Richard CummingsImmigration and terror in a time of chaos. The Dishonest Pursuit of...
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Homeschooling for Life—September 2005
PERSPECTIVE It Takes an Autodidact by Thomas Fleming Adventures in life-long learning. VIEWS The Communion of Saints by Michael McMahon Journeying together. The Autodidact at Work and Play by Chilton Williamson, Jr. Reflections on the writerly life. I'm Just a Travelin' Man by Derek Turner Education through wanderlust. Confessions of an Autodidact by David Gordon A place to start. American Historians and Their History by Clyde Wilson Scratching the ...
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We the Subjects—August 2005
PERSPECTIVE The Republic We Betrayedby Thomas Fleming Enslaving ourselves. VIEWS Republicanism, Monarchy, and the Human Scale of Politicsby Donald W. LivingstonOur kingless monarchy. Powers, Principalities, Spiritual Forcesby Harold O.J. BrownCharging toward the Dies Irae. Please Tread on Meby Clyde WilsonThus always to presidents. NEWS The Republican Party’s Welfare Queensby Doug BandowMay a thousand Enrons bloom....
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Effeminate Gospel, Effeminate Christians
Every definition of masculinity into which our Lord Jesus Christ does not fit belongs in the rubbish heap. Indeed, there could be no greater example of a man than He. Contrary to modern portrayals, Jesus was neither a sensitive metrosexual nor a macho-macho man. The tenderness that He displayed toward those whom He loved (including...
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Pimping for Africa
Thirty years after publishing Black Mischief, his hilarious novel about Abyssinia, the only independent African monarchy at that time, Evelyn Waugh wrote that the unthinkable in 1932 had come to pass. The Europeans were departing Africa, leaving the administration of the benighted natives to Ministries of Modification presided over by Basil Seals of the United...
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Men of the West—July 2005
PERSPECTIVE Heroes in the Age of the Antiheroby Thomas Fleming Unbreaking glass. VIEWS Guys of the Golden Westby Chilton Williamson, Jr.A glorious sunset. A Place to Standby Wayne AllensworthTexas and the making of men and heroes. Cowboy Heroesby Roger D. McGrathLearning the Code of the West. Effeminate Gospel, Effeminate Christiansby Aaron D. WolfFrom authority to...
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Fool’s Mate: America’s Strategic Failures—June 2005
PERSPECTIVE The Suicide Strategy of the Westby Thomas Fleming Turkish bizarre. VIEWS The Emerging American Empireby Douglas WilsonMammon versus Allah. The Rise of Chinaby William R. HawkinsSeeing is believing. Transforming the Middle Eastby Ted Galen CarpenterWashington’s high-stakes gamble. Getting Europe Straightby Srdja TrifkovicSlouching toward Eurabia. NEWS Why Russia Does Not Fear an Iranian Bombby Wayne...
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For the Peace of Jerusalem
This issue, and the book that will follow in a few months, are the fruits of three years’ work for the study group that The Rockford Institute put together at the request of our board chairman, David A. Hartman. During this period, we were asked many times: Why? Not because peace in the Middle East...
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Anarcho-Tyranny: The Perpetual Revolution—April 2005
PERSPECTIVE Synthesizing Tyrannyby Samuel Francis The last word. VIEWS The Real Fight Is Here at Homeby Roger D. McGrathFallujah, California. Global Anarcho-Tyrannyby Srdja TrifkovicA game of chess. Samuel T. Francis, R.I.P.Clyde Wilson and Thomas Fleming remembertheir fellow Tarheel conspirator. NEWS Final Solutionby B.K. EakmanThe hostile takeover of America’s schools. REVIEWS My Favorite Justiceby Stephen B....
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Peace in the Promised Land—May 2005
PERSPECTIVE Peace in the Land of Sojournby Thomas Fleming Gods and promises. VIEWS A Brief History of Quagmireby Doug BandowSix decades of passionate attachment. A Tale of Two Citiesby Leon T. HadarDifferent visions of Israel’s future. Israel and Americaby Ivan ElandParallel lives, similar mistakes. The Christian Zionist Threat to Peaceby Aaron D. WolfSpend your vacation...
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The Promise of American Life—January 2005
PERSPECTIVE Love the One You’re Withby Thomas Fleming Life in occupied America. VIEWS Education and Authorityby Michael McMahonRespect in the marketplace. Honor to Whom Honorby Harold O.J. BrownBelow reproach. America’s Unthinking Militaryby Robert D. HicksonServants of the imperium. Government: Good or Bad? Big or Little?by Thomas StorckReframing the debate. NEWS First Prize, Second Hand, Third...
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The Abolition of Man—March 2005
PERSPECTIVE Human, Not-Quite Humanby Thomas Fleming Abolishing God. VIEWS The Abolition of Learningby Michael McMahonSchools in the rubbish heap. Music, Technology, and Psychological Warfareby E. Michael JonesFrom Muzak to MTV. Man and Everymanby Joseph PearceAssembling the fragments. No Graven Imagesby Harold O.J. BrownServing capitalism. NEWS Dealing With a Nuclear Iranby Ted Galen CarpenterAcceptance and deterrence....
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Losing the War—February 2005
PERSPECTIVE Selling Muhammad the Ropeby Thomas Fleming Cutting off our nose . . . VIEWS War on the Home Frontby Wayne AllensworthReal homeland security. Is There a Khilafah in Your Future?by James George JatrasThe coming Islamic revolution. NEWS The Saudi Presence in the United Statesby Robert SpencerThe most lethal terror front of all? Islam: Africa’s...
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The Pontiff and the War
In early December, Tom Piatak sent me an e-mail to inform me of the “papal challenge” that Peter Robinson had issued over in the Corner on National Review Online. Robinson claimed, as almost all neoconservative Catholics have claimed, that Pope John Paul II never unequivocally opposed the war. Tom asked me to reply, and sadly,...
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But, thou Bethlehem . . . —December 2004
PERSPECTIVE The Plight of the Homelessby Thomas Fleming Life in the Unreal City. VIEWS Finding Edenby Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.The paradise of fools and its King. At Home in the Cosmosby John Francis NietoDante versus the modern imagination. NEWS Taxation for Economic Survivalby David A. HartmanThe Business Transfer Tax. FICTION The Wand of Youthby Anthony BukoskiA...
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Trick or Trick!—November 2004
PERSPECTIVE Where’s Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?by Thomas Fleming The misadventures of Douglas Feith. VIEWS A Third Way?by Tom PiatakWhen stupid and evil are the same. Toward Real Conservatismby Edward A. OlsenJust say no to the neocons. NEWS Walking the Neocon Plankby Timothy P. CarneyTotal victory. The Rise and Fall of the Texas Republican...
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America: From Village to Empire—October 2004
PERSPECTIVE The Call of Bloodby Thomas Fleming Old Europe versus the New World Order. VIEWS There Once Was a New Englandby John WillsonTimothy Dwight’s New England catechism. Tocqueville’s America and America Todayby Claude PolinLiberty, Equality, Materialism. NEWS H.R. 3313 and the Imperial Judiciaryby William J. QuirkA welcome constitutional crisis. What? Are You Crazy?by B.K. EakmanThe...
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The Big Bore of Arkansas
Ric Flair: To Be the Manby Ric FlairNew York: Pocket Books; 332 pp., $26.00American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to Powerby Christopher AndersenNew York: William Morrow; 292 pp., $29.95 Rewriting Historyby Dick Morris with Eileen McGannNew York: ReganBooks; 304 pp., $24.95 My Lifeby Bill ClintonNew York: Alfred A. Knopf; Comments To post a comment, you must register and be logged...
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Children—Our Future or Our Past?—September 2004
PERSPECTIVE Fighting Among the Hedgerowsby Thomas Fleming Reracination. VIEWS Blindsided By Education’s Leftistsby B.K. EakmanRepublicans assure their own marginalization. There’s No Place Like Homeby Michael McMahonSimon says, “Go to school.” NEWS Many Children Left Behindby William LutzReexamining the Texas success story. The Untold Story Behind The Passion of the Christ by Alberto CarosaIn defense of...
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Thomas Fleming and Mother Teresa: Undoubted Motives in the Morality of Everyday Life
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Dope Nation—August 2004
PERSPECTIVE Doing Death by Thomas Fleming Be not proud. VIEWS Afghanistan: Opium Market to the World by Doug Bandow No end in sight. The Global Pharmacy by Kevin Michael Grace A reason for Americans to love Canada. NEWS Anything That Ails You by B.K. Eakman Women on tranqs in a self-serve society. The Bush Clan at the “Oligarchs’ Ball” by Wayne Allensworth Helping out ...
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The Ministry of Fear—July 2004
PERSPECTIVE Hatemongers by Thomas Fleming Stopping our ears. VIEWS CAIR and the ADL: Partnership for Hate by Srdja Trifkovic What becomes of the race opportunists? What Kind of Freedom? by Doug Bandow Picking and choosing liberties to defend. The Myth of an Antiglobalist Left by William R. Hawkins Marx, waiting in the wings. NEWS Strictly From Hunger by Kevin Michael Grace The Morris Dees ...
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On Outsourcing
As a faithful reader of Chronicles, I was sorely disappointed to see Tom Piatak’s “Outsourcing Our Future” (American Proscenium, May). Mr. Piatak takes the ridiculous but all-too-oft-repeated stance that, when Americans “lose” jobs to overseas workers, America suffers. He appears to have forgotten one of the fundamental lessons of economics: the lesson of comparative advantage,...
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On Infallibility, Popes, and Woods
Over on the LewRockwell.com Blog, Stephen Kinsella has, in response to an e-mail exchange I had with him, retracted his earlier statement that Thomas Storck, Thomas Fleming, and I have claimed papal infallibility for encyclicals on social thought. Even so, he qualifies his retraction by ...
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Faith and the Dismal Science
Our old friend Tom Woods has painted himself into a corner. Portraying himself as an uncompromising ultratraditionalist who will have no truck either with the Novus Ordo or with anyone who does not condemn the Orthodox to Hell, he nonetheless takes it upon himself to contradict the Church’s fundamental teachings on morality and society. Woods’s...
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The Limits of Economics
Actually, to say that Woods replies is a bit of an overstatement; he cranked out 2,078 words overnight (a feat for which Lew Rockwell praises him), but very few of those words address the arguments that Storck raised. In fact, he includes only one quotation from Storck, which he uses to set up a straw...
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Press Lords!—June 2004
PERSPECTIVE Honest Journalistby Thomas Fleming A modest proposal. VIEWS Independent Media Tribesby Jesse WalkerBypassing the old gatekeepers. Reality TV Newsby Justin RaimondoScripted by the Bush administration. NEWS The Fall of Lord Blackadder and Lady Manolo (of Blahnik)by Kevin Michael GraceConrad Black (and blue). The Fourth Choiceby William J. QuirkEnding the reign of activist judges. REVIEWS...
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Cultural Suicide—May 2004
PERSPECTIVE Cultural Suicideby Thomas Fleming Multiculturalism and Western self-loathing. VIEWS America in Europe, Europe in Americaby Claude PolinA shared disease. Europe and Americaby Srdja TrifkovicIdentity of decrepitude. Dreams of Old Placesby Anthony BukoskiA personal essay. NEWS Europe’s Population Implosionby David A. HartmanA diagnosis. Strange Bedfellowsby Wayne AllensworthBush and Soros unite against Georgia. REVIEWS Smear Campaignby...
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JUST SAY NO!—April 2004
PERSPECTIVE Tax Slavery by Thomas Fleming For a conquered people. VIEWS Revolting Taxation by David Hartman How federal taxation usurped federalism. Tax-and-Spend Politics, Bush-style by Doug Bandow Outgunning the Democrats. NEWS High Marginal Tax Rates on Saving Hurt Us All by Stephen J. Entin Bush's incremental reform. The Naked Truth of Tax Policy by ...
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“Economic Law” versus Catholic Social Teaching, Part III
Part II) on Tom Woods’ article “The Trouble With Catholic Social Teaching” have generated much discussion, on this site and elsewhere—a healthy sign, it seems to me, that many conservative and traditionalist Catholics are trying to grapple with the Church’s consistent social teaching rather than simply bracketing it and substituting some form of conservative economics....
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Straight Eye for the Queer Guy—March 2004
PERSPECTIVE “Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man” by Thomas Fleming From Frodo to Elijah Wood. VIEWS Boys Will Be Boys by Roger D. McGrath (If given half a chance.) “Gay Marriage” by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. From Genesis to Revelation, by way of the New Yorker. NEWS Marriage and the Law by Stephen B. Presser Time for a ...