PERSPECTIVE

Our Fathers’ Fields
by Thomas Fleming

Weaver, property rights, and conservatism.

VIEWS

Property Rights and the Founding
by Marco Bassani

The classical-liberal reading.

The War on Blight
by Steve Berg

You may be next.

Where Did Our Property Rights Go?
by Steven Greenhut

Not in my back yard.

Of Landlords, Leases, and Calico Indians
by Jack Trotter

Fenimore Cooper and private property.

NEWS

The New Plan for Iraq
by Joseph E. Fallon

War with Iran?

REVIEWS

The Courage to Live
by Ewa Thompson

Zbigniew Herbert: The Collected Poems: 1956-1998

plus

Mark Tooley on Charles J. Shields’ Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

Catharine Savage Brosman on Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons

Srdja Trifkovic on Robert L. Beisner’s Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War

Herbert Arthur Scott Trask on Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone: A Novel

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Texas: No Country for Honorable Men: The Prosecution of the “Border Patrol Two”
by Wayne Allensworth

Letter From Vermont: On Correctness and Collegiality
by Kirkpatrick Sale

VITAL SIGNS

IMMIGRATION: Enter Stage Right
by William Lutz

CRIME: Race, Crime, and the Media
by R. Cort Kirkwood

COLUMNS

THE BARE BODKIN
by Joseph Sobran

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
The Lives of Others, Breach
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

The Intrepid Traveller
by Sara Hill

ON THE COVER

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