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 Dan Mastromarco
Cloaks of deception.

How Many Priests?
by Philip Jenkins
The numbers tell the story.

REVIEWS

Rule Columbia!
by Daniel McCarthy

Andrew J. Bacevich, ed: The Imperial Tense
John Newhouse: Imperial America

plus

Philip Jenkins on Edward F. Fitzgerald’s Bank’s Bandits: The Untold Story of the Original Green Berets

Patrick J. Walsh on R.F. Forster’s W.B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II

Peter J. Lynch on David E. Bernstein’s You Can’t Say That!

Catharine Savage Brosman on David Clinton’s Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot: Liberalism Confronts the World

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Moscow: Gigantic in Everything
by Curtis Cate

Letter From Sweden: The Swedes Say “No” to the Euro
by Alberto Carosa

Letter From Texas: The Unvanquished Family
by Denne Sweeney

VITAL SIGNS

RACE: The Illinois Negro Code
by Steve Berg

INDUSTRY: Blood and Iron Pyrite
by Eric J. Obermeyer

COLUMNS

THE WESTERN FRONT
by Paul Gottfried

PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
by Samuel Francis

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Monster, The Fog of War
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

THE BEST REVENGE
by Anthony Santelli

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Intolerance: A Memo and Redcoats by Paul Lake

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by H. Ward Sterett and Melanie Anderson.