PERSPECTIVE

Dead Monkeys and the Living God
by Thomas Fleming

Clouded judgment.

VIEWS

Ecrasez L’infame
by Tom Piatak

The persistence of Christophobia.

When Experts Attack
by Aaron D. Wolf

The Church Growth Movement versus church growth.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
by Roger D. McGrath

From eternity to here.

The Cardinal Vicar
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.

(With apologies to Dostoyevsky and nods to Jean Raspail and Monsignor Benson.)

NEWS

A Strategy to Quarantine the Violence in Iraq
by Ted Galen Carpenter

Conferring for peace.

REVIEWS

The Politics of Life—and Politics
by Daniel McCarthy

William H. Colby: Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America; Cristina Page: How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America; Ramesh Ponnuru: The Party of Death

plus

Tobias J. Lanz on Peter M. Rosset’s Food Is Different: Why We Must Get the WTO Out of Agriculture

John Willson on Gabor Boritt’s The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows

James Vogel on Fr. Claude Barthe’s Beyond Vatican II: The Church at a New Crossroads

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Europe: Feeding the Beast
by Paul Belien

VITAL SIGNS

CRIME: “Family Values”: Illegal Aliens and Their Sex Crimes
by R. Cort Kirkwood

LETTERS: A Great Tradition Renewed
by Derek Turner

COLUMNS

BREAKING GLASS
by Philip Jenkins

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

The Sleepers Awake
and
Quatrains for a New Year
by B.R. Strahan

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.
Additional inside illustrations by Nicholas Garrie.