PERSPECTIVE
Christmas Nightmares
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS
Sola Scriptura: The Case for the Crusades
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
Following Christ.

How to Win the War Against Christmas
by Tom Piatak
Remembering how we got here.

Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement
by Christie Davies
The British retreat as the Muslims advance.

NEWS
The Cold War Never Ended
by Joseph E. Fallon
U.S.-Russian relations since September 11.

REVIEWS
The Fall of the House of Utter
by Clark Stooksbury

Andrew J. Bacevich: The Limits of Power

H.A. Scott Trask on Kevin Phillips’ Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Fr. Michael P. Orsi on John G. West’s Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

Ronald F. Maxwell on Alston Chase’s We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear: Intimations of Their Immortality

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter From England: Spy Kids and Labour Snoops
by Thomas McMahon

VITAL SIGNS
The Family: Europe’s Self-Jihad
by Roberto de Mattei

Homeschooling as Mental Illness
by Beverly K. Eakman

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

The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic

In the Dark
Body of Lies
by George McCartney

What’s Wrong With the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS
POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Saint-Séverin, I
by Catharine Savage Brosman

ON THE COVER
Cover art by Giotto di Bondone.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.