Vol. 20, No. 4—April 1996

PERSPECTIVE

Athens and Jerusalem
by Thomas Fleming

Where neopagans go wrong.

VIEWS

With the Nietzscheans of Naumburg
by Curtis Cate

Mediocrity and the West.

Ancient Greek Religion
by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones

How it differed from Christianity.

Monotheism vs. Polytheism
by Alain de Benoist

The neopagan critique.

The Twilight of the Sacred
by Thomas Molnar

The Christian difference.

OPINIONS

Scholarship and Bricolage
by E. Christian Kopff

Learning from the ancients.

[reviewing Bernard Williams: Shame and Necessity]

REVIEWS

Philip Jenkins on Debbie Nathan’s and Michael Snedeker’s Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt

Clyde Wilson on Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.’s Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia and Larry Koger’s Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slavemasters in South Carolina, 1790-1860

Justus D. Doenecke on editor Gregory P. Pavlik’s Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn

Gregory McNamee on Tony Hillerman’s Finding Moon

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Inner Israel: State-Sponsored Prayer
by Jacob Neusner

VITAL SIGNS

JOURNALISM: The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at the Washington Times, Part I
by Samuel Francis

RELIGION: Politicized Christianity
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Evangelicals on the Durham Trail
by D.G. Hart

Does God Believe in Gun Control?
by David B. Kopel

The Revival of Russian Paganism
by Wayne Allensworth

Colleges Against Christ
by Sanford Pinsker

Demonizing the Orthodox
by John Carlucci

DEPARTMENTS

Polemics & Exchange
Cultural Revolutions
The Hundredth Meridian
Poetry: Epigrams, Best Intentions, and Out of Tune with the Stars by X.J. Kennedy

ON THE COVER

Cover and illustrations by H. Ward Sterett.