PERSPECTIVE
The Politics of Human Interests
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS
America as a Proposition Nation
by Clyde Wilson
Facing our superstition.

The Most Desirable Option
by Kirkpatrick Sale
Reeducating for secession.

What Is Wrong With Ideology?
by Donald W. Livingston
The great inversion.

NEWS
Moving Targets
by Daniel Larison
The trouble with early primaries.

REVIEWS
Two American Lives
by Stephen B. Presser

David Cannadine: Mellon: An American Life
David Nasaw: Andrew Carnegie

plus

Kirkpatrick Sale on Joseph Pearce’s Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered • Tobias J. Lanz on Eric T. Freyfogle’s Agrarianism and the Good Society • James O. Tate on L. Jon Wertheim’s Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, The Last Great American Pool Hustler •

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter From the Heartland: Globalization Transforms Kansas City
by Matthew Roberts

Letter From South Carolina: Bible-Belt Baroque
by Jack Trotter

Letter From Cyprus: Bridge of Hope
by Harry Nicolaides

VITAL SIGNS
The Servile State: The Failure of “Family Policy”
by Stephen Baskerville

COLUMNS
The Bare Bodkin
“Jesus’ Simple Message”
by Joseph Sobran

Under the Black Flag
“Saudi Bums”
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Breaking Glass
“Cartoon Enlightenment”
by Philip Jenkins

The Rockford Files
“You Read It Here First”
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
“A Remembered Kindness”
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
“The Empire: Not So Great in ’08”
by Srdja Trifkovic

In the Dark
“Excellent Enemies”
Lions for Lambs
by George McCartney

What’s Wrong With the World
“Think More, Communicate Less”
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Upon the Removal of Confederate Memorials and Names Across the Modern South
and
The Two Estates by David Middleton

ON THE COVER
Cover by Warren Chappell.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.