Masters of the Universe—February 2004

PERSPECTIVE

Charity Begins at Church
by Thomas Fleming

Christian welfare.

VIEWS

George Soros, Postmodern Villain
by Srdja Trifkovic
NGO’s, behold your god.

The Church and NGO’s
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
“Shall I crucify your king?”

NEWS

What Empire?
by Sean Moir
The proliferation of U.S. military bases.

The Tobin Tax
by Cliff Kincaid
The NGO plan to fleece America.

REVIEWS

Shine, Republic
by H.A. Scott Trask

Ruth Sarles: A Story of America First: The Men and Women Who Opposed U.S. Intervention in World War II

plus

Philip Jenkins on Robert J. Stove’s The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims

Greg Kaza on Jan Chryzostom Cardinal Korec’s The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of 
the Slovak Cardinal

Mark G. Brennan on 
William Bonner and Addison Wiggin’s Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 
21st Century

Steven J. Willett on Richard E. Nisbett’s The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why

Karina Rollins on Andrew Hacker’s Mismatch: The Growing 
Gulf Between Women and Men

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From the Tribunal: Truth and Reconciliation
by Brian Kirkpatrick

Letter to the Bishop: Liturgical Flora
by Joe Ecclesia

VITAL SIGNS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: A Military Encore in North Korea
by Doug Bandow

IMMIGRATION: The Cost of Immigration
by James R. Edwards

HEALTHCARE: Night Moves
by Stephen Moore

COLUMNS

BREAKING GLASS
by Philip Jenkins

PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
by Samuel Francis

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,
The Last Samurai
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

Veerings (Veere, Zeeland),
Approaching Oblivion (Manhattan)
and Lost Chords (in 4/4 time) by B.R. Strahan

ON THE COVER

Inside illustrations by H. Ward Sterett.