PERSPECTIVE

Pigs Is Pigs
by Thomas Fleming

Pretending with principles.

VIEWS

It’s the War, Stupid!
by Leon Hadar

Election 2006 and beyond.

Committing Political Suicide
by Doug Bandow

The 109th Congress.

Lost in Iraq
by The Hon. John J. Duncan, Jr.

The election, Republicans, and conservatives.

The End of the Rove Era in Republican Politics
by Tom Pauken

Time to remember the forgotten.

NEWS

Swiss Cheese and Fudge
by George Ajjan

Clinton’s foreign-policy legacy.

REVIEWS

Patriotic Conservative
by Aaron D. Wolf

Samuel Francis: Shots Fired

Clyde Wilson on Mark Royden Winchell’s Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region

Tom Piatak on Susan Butler’s My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin

Herbert Arthur Scott Trask on Niall Ferguson’s The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

Stephen B. Presser on Richard A. Posner’s Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Russia: A Wilderness of Mirrors: Litvinenko, Putin, and the West
by Vladimir Solovey

VITAL SIGNS

YANKEES: Memories of Mr. Lytle
by John Willson

THE NEW REPUBLIC: Lincoln’s Other War of Aggression
by Joseph E. Fallon

COLUMNS

Sins of Omission
by Roger D. McGrath

Letter to the Bishop
by Joe Ecclesia

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic

In The Dark
Casino Royale, Apocalypto
by George McCartney

The Hundredth Meridian
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

Polemics & Exchanges

American Proscenium
—Scott P. Richert on one Muslim’s planned terror in the Rockford area.

Cultural Revolutions

Poetry
The Narrows
by Catharine Savage Brosman

ON THE COVER

Cover by George McCartney, Jr..
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson and Nicholas Garrie.