PERSPECTIVE

Human, Not-Quite Human
by Thomas Fleming

Abolishing God.

VIEWS

The Abolition of Learning
by Michael McMahon
Schools in the rubbish heap.

Music, Technology, and Psychological Warfare
by E. Michael Jones
From Muzak to MTV.

Man and Everyman
by Joseph Pearce
Assembling the fragments.

No Graven Images
by Harold O.J. Brown
Serving capitalism.

NEWS

Dealing With a Nuclear Iran
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Acceptance and deterrence.

REVIEWS

Beautiful Terror
by James O. Tate

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Gerald Clarke, ed.: Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote

plus

Derek Turner on Philip du Toit’s The Great South African Land Scandal

H.A. Scott Trask on William Pfaff’s The Bullet’s Song

Mark Royden Winchell on Catharine Savage Brosman’s A Muscled Truce

Patrick J. Walsh on Charles H. Calhoun’s Longfellow—A Rediscovered Life

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From the Netherlands: From Mercy Killing to Euthanasia
by Alberto Carosa

Letter From Germany: The Yoke of Democracy
by Josef Schüsslburner

Letter From New York: Everybody Hans Küng Tonight!
by Michael J. Sauter

VITAL SIGNS

EUGENICS: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
by Marian Kester Coombs

Has America Lost Her Moral Gag Reflex?
by B.K. Eakman

LIBERALISM: Innocent Leftists
by James Moses

TERRORISM: American Terrorists, Environmental-Style
by Doug Bandow

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
by Samuel Francis

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
The Aviator
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Blue Spruce, Santa Fé by Catharine Savage Brosman
The Bird of Poetry by Sally Cook

ON THE COVER

Cover by Melanie Anderson.  Inside illustrations by
Melanie Anderson and Elizabeth Wolf.