Perspective

Imperialism From the Cradle to the Grave
by Thomas Fleming

Mesopotamia, the graveyard of empire.

Views

Our Yesterday and Your Today
by Michael Stenton

A tale of two empires.

The Justification for War
by Srdja Trifkovic

It’s the oil (and the power, and Israel), stupid.

Just War or Just Another War?
by Thomas Ryba

Jus in Iraq.

Giving Up Saddam
by Wayne Allensworth

Russia and “regime change” in Iraq.

Reviews

Politics and Power
by Derek Turner

Roger Scruton: The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

plus . . .

Chilton Williamson, Jr., on Joseph Pearce’s Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

Jeffrey Meyers on David Gilmour’s The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

H.A. Scott Trask on Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce, edited by Russell Duncan and David J. Klooster

Thomas Fleming on Jonathan Riley-Smith’s What Were the Crusades?

Correspondence

Letter From London: A Way of Dreaming
by Andrei Navrozov

Letter From California: Fighting the Good Fight
by Roger D. McGrath

Vital Signs

THE NEW REPUBLIC: Axis to Grind
by John Kilgore

FILM: Reclaiming the American Story
by Clyde Wilson

Columns

BREAKING GLASS
by Philip Jenkins

CHRONICLES INTELLIGENCE  ASSESSMENT
by Justin Raimondo

PRINCIPALITIES &  POWERS
by Samuel Francis

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Solaris, Adaptation
by George McCartney

THE NON-IDIOT’S GUIDE
by Srdja Trifkovic

Departments

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Overman by Richard Moore
Mississippians by John Nixon, Jr.

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

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