WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM—December 2007 by Chronicles • December 1, 2007 • Printer-friendly

PERSPECTIVE

Freedom of Conscience
by Thomas Fleming

Politics and ancient traditions.

VIEWS

With Malice Toward Many
by Tom Landess

Washington, Lincoln, and God.

The Conversion of a Culture
by Harold O.J. Brown

Crisis and revolution.

Dobson’s Choice
by Aaron D. Wolf

Politics and the spirit of martyrdom.

Throne and Altar
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.

Imposing our religion.

NEWS

Clueless in the Congress
by Beverly K. Eakman

The reauthorization of a reckless bill.

REVIEWS

Epicene Europa
by Derek Turner

Walter Laqueur: The Last Days of Europe

plus

Roger D. McGrath on John Ferling’s Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

Clyde Wilson on Kevin R.C. Gutzman’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution and Marshall L. DeRosa’s Redeeming American Democracy: Lessons From the Federal Constitution

Herbert Arthur Scott Trask on Chalmers Johnson’s Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Burma: The Lady Vanishes by Jeffrey Meyers

VITAL SIGNS

POLITICAL THEORY: Abortion: No Libertarian Triumph by Doug Bandow

THE ARTS: Like Talking to a Wall: Some Further Thoughts on Photography by Andrei Navrozov

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION by Roger D. McGrath

THE ROCKFORD FILES by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
In the Valley of Elah, Michael Clayton
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

Song of an Old Rake and
Song of the Shovel by Ruth Moose

ON THE COVER

Cover courtesy of Scala / Art Resource, NY.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.