PERSPECTIVE

“Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man”
by Thomas Fleming

From Frodo to Elijah Wood.

VIEWS

Boys Will Be Boys
by Roger D. McGrath
(If given half a chance.)

“Gay Marriage”
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
From Genesis to Revelation, by way of the New Yorker.

NEWS

Marriage and the Law
by Stephen B. Presser
Time for a divorce?

Homosexuality, In the Cards
by Virginia Deane Abernethy
Hating ourselves.

REVIEWS

The Kindness of Strangers
by James O. Tate

Dale Peck: What We Lost

E. Lynn Harris: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Stephen B. Presser on Richard A. Posner’s Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy and Lawrence M. Friedman’s American Law in the Twentieth Century

Derek Turner on Peter Ackroyd’s Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Clark Stooksbury on Joe Conason’s Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Mexico: Open Roads to Nowhere
by V. Groginsky

VITAL SIGNS

CHRISTIANITY: Pulling the Trigger
by David Mills

THE MEDIA: Pink Elephants on Parade
by Marian Kester Coombs

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

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
House of Sand and Fog
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DICTATIONS
by Matthew Rarey

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Another Country
and
At Quaker Meeting
by Barton Sutter

ON THE COVER

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