But, thou Bethlehem . . . —December 2004

PERSPECTIVE

The Plight of the Homeless
by Thomas Fleming

Life in the Unreal City.

VIEWS

Finding Eden
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
The paradise of fools and its King.

At Home in the Cosmos
by John Francis Nieto
Dante versus the modern imagination.

NEWS

Taxation for Economic Survival
by David A. Hartman
The Business Transfer Tax.

FICTION

The Wand of Youth
by Anthony Bukoski
A story.

REVIEWS

Mexico Comes of Age
by Allan Wall

Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon: Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy

plus

Samuel Francis on Alex Owen’s The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture
 of the Modern

Patrick Walsh on Philip Larkin: 
Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Canada: The Forgotten White Ethnics
by Mark Wegierski

Letter From Poland: A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra
by Greg Kaza

VITAL SIGNS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Out on a Limb: America's Pledge to Defend Taiwan
by Ted Galen Carpenter

PROPERTY: Robbing Peter, Paying Wal-Mart
by Steven Greenhut

TELEVISION: It’s a Wonderful Racket
by Kevin Michael Grace

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
The Motorcycle Diaries,
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

THE MORALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
by Thomas Fleming

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
Poland, New Year’s Day, 1982
A Warning to Dissidents and
Vengeance Is Mine, Says the Lord, 1943 by Leo Yankevich   

ON THE COVER

Cover by Saint Luke; inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.