Surviving the Next Depression—July 2009 by Chronicles • June 29, 2009 • Printer-friendly

PERSPECTIVE
The Good Life
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS

Another Reason Why the Agrarians Lost
by Tom Landess
Or did they?

What “Terrible Lesson” Can Russia Teach Us?
by Wayne Allensworth
Parallel prevalent pathologies.

The Distributist Alternative
by Greg Kaza
A voluntary safety net.

NEWS

Israeli Spies, Exposed
by Justin Raimondo
Only the beginning.

REVIEWS

Of Queens, Democrats, and History
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

John Lukacs: Last Rites
Godfrey Hodgson: The Myth of American Exceptionalism
Frank Prochaska: The Eagle & the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy

plus

Andrei Navrozov on Charles Glass’s Americans in Paris:
Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation

James O. Tate on Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor

Clyde Wilson on Mark Egnal’s Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Bavaria: A Living Past
by Derek Turner

VITAL SIGNS

The New Republic: Lincoln, the Antiwar Congressman
by Joseph E. Fallon

Commonweal: Worth Repeating
by Paul Likoudis

COLUMNS

Sins of Omission
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
by Roger D. McGrath

Under the Black Flag
“Boozing With Papa”
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Heresies
“Breast Implants and Barbarians”
by Aaron D. Wolf

The Rockford Files
“Of Sycophants and Soliloquies”
by Scott P. Richert

In the Dark
“Geez”
Angels & Demons
by George McCartney

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
The Alphaville Dictionary

POETRY

Caesar in Parthia and
Burton on Fernando Po
by Larry Johnson

ON THE COVER

Cover photo courtesy of The Peabody Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives. Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.