PERSPECTIVE

Heroes in the Age of the Antihero
by Thomas Fleming

Unbreaking glass.

VIEWS

Guys of the Golden West
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
A glorious sunset.

A Place to Stand
by Wayne Allensworth
Texas and the making of men and heroes.

Cowboy Heroes
by Roger D. McGrath
Learning the Code of the West.

Effeminate Gospel, Effeminate Christians
by Aaron D. Wolf
From authority to influence.

NEWS

Essentials for a Lasting Peace in the Middle East
by David A. Hartman
What must be on the table.

REVIEWS

Play It Again, Plum!
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life

plus

Thomas Fleming on Sima M. Cirkovic’s The Serbs

Catharine Savage Brosman on Cynthia Shearer’s The Celestial Jukebox

Paul Gottfried on Adam L. Tate’s Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty and the Good Society

H.A. Scott Trask on Richard Buel, Jr.’s America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Turkey: Democracy and Adultery
by Peter Huys

VITAL SIGNS

THE OLD REPUBLIC: Why Taft Matters
by Mark Royden Winchell

CHARITY: Pimping for Charity
by Anthony Ellison

COLUMNS

THE WESTERN FRONT
by Paul Gottfried

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Kingdom of Heaven, Crash
by George McCartney

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Of Local History by David Middleton
and The Last Silesian by Leo Yankevich   

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.