A New Deal—April 2009 by Chronicles • April 1, 2009 • Printer-friendly

PERSPECTIVE

Dead Romans and Live Americans
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS

“It Takes Brass to Get Gold”
by Clyde Wilson
Politics and economics in America.

Regulation for Financial Sanity
by David A. Hartman
Government’s important (and reduced) role.

Not Our Fathers’ Auto Industry
by Greg Kaza
History versus economic models.

Ask an Entrepreneur
by William Lutz
Where to turn for sound economic advice.

NEWS

NATO at 60
by Ted Galen Carpenter
A hollow shell.

REVIEWS

Scholarly Pornography
by Irving Louis Horowitz

Colin McGinn: Mindf–king: A Critique of Mental Manipulation
Harry G. Frankfurt: On Bullsh-t

plus

Michael J. Ard on Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Fr. Michael P. Orsi on Russell Shorto’s Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith
and Reason

H.A. Scott Trask on Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train
to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Chile: Thoughts on Pinochet and Castro
by Christie Davies

VITAL SIGNS

Anarchotyranny: Policing the Opposition
by Thomas McMahon

COLUMNS

The Bare Bodkin
by Joseph Sobran

Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Heresies
by Aaron D. Wolf

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

In the Dark   
The Reader
by George McCartney

The Hundredth Meridian
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
—R. Cort Kirkwood: “Su Rancho Es Mi Rancho“

POETRY

Two Chapters From a
History of the Mind and
The Catalogue of Moons
by David Middleton

ON THE COVER

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