PERSPECTIVE

Two Oinks for Democracy
by Thomas Fleming

Looking out for number one.

VIEWS

The Declaration of Independence and Philosophic Superstitions
by Donald W. Livingston

Meaning without culture.

Nationalism or Patriotism
by Thomas Storck

Love of an idea versus love of place.

Harry Jaffa and the Historical Imagination
by Tom Landess

Reconfiguring souls.

NEWS

WMD Negotiations Must Be Based on Truth
by Alberto Carosa

An interview with Dr. Hans Blix.

China, Russia, and NGOs
by Jeremy Whitcombe

Resisting the reform revolution.

REVIEWS

Carrying the Fire
by Jack Trotter

Cormac McCarthy: The Road

plus

Derek Turner on Roger Scruton’s Gentle Regrets: Thoughts From a Life

Clyde Wilson on James Everett Kilber’s Memory’s Keep

James O. Tate on Gordon S. Wood’s Revolutionary Characters

Fr. Michael P. Orsi on R. Peddicord, O.P.’s The Sacred Monster of Thomism

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Berlin: A No-Longer-Broken City
by Curtis Cate

Letter From the Upper Midwest: The Company Town
by Sean Scallon

VITAL SIGNS

FILM: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Roger D. McGrath

AMERICAN EMPIRE: Lincoln, the Leiber Code, and Total War
by Joseph E. Fallon

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Kosovo in the Crosshairs
by James Bissett

JOBS: The Education Mantra
by Gerald Russello

THE ECONOMY: Wal-Mart and the Homosexuals
R. Cort Kirkwood

COLUMNS

The Bare Bodkin
by Joseph Sobran

BREAKING GLASS
by Philip Jenkins

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic

In The Dark
Borat, Babel
by George McCartney

What’s Wrong With the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

Polemics & Exchanges

American Proscenium

Cultural Revolutions
—William J. Quirk on “Forgotten Strippers”

Poetry

The Board Lights Up!, At a Disco, and An Upstairs
by Robert Beum

ON THE COVER

Cover by Warren Chappell.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson and Nicholas Garrie.