PERSPECTIVE
Beastie Boys
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS
Federales, Gringo Style
by Roger D. McGrath
The exponential growth of federal police.

Do We Want a Federal Police Force?
by William J. Quirk
The Supreme Court and Congress versus the people.

Jack Bauer, Agent of Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A.
by R. Cort Kirkwood
America’s most wanted.

NEWS
The Surge “Success”
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Triumph of hope over experience.

REVIEWS
Towers of Babel
by Jack Trotter

Pierre Manent: Democracy Without Nations?

plus

Michael J. Ard on Christina Marcano’s and Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s Hugo Chávez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuala’s Controversial President

Clark Stooksbury on Jeff Gomez’s Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Francis Phillips on Moyra Doorly’s No Place for God: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter From Castelnau de Montmiral: Out-Twee the Foreigner by Alice Waugh

Letter From Texas: Something Big by Wayne Allensworth

VITAL SIGNS
Christianity: The Bishops’ Tale
by Mark Tooley

Film: James Stewart
by Christopher Sandford

COLUMNS
Under the Black Flag
“City of Light, Summer of Hate”
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Letter to the Bishop
“Black Like Me”
by Joe Ecclesia

The Rockford Files
“Tan, Rested, and Ready”
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
“The Rhetoric of Fashion”
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
“Smokers in the Arsenal”
by Srdja Trifkovic

In the Dark
“The Postmodern Sneer”
Funny Games
by George McCartney

What’s Wrong With the World
“Liberalism as Addiction”
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS
POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
The Pentecostal Duck
by Jon Dressel

ON THE COVER
Cover by George McCartney, Jr.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.