CELEBRITY POLITICS: October 2007

PERSPECTIVE

"Make Me Do Right, or Make Me Do Wrong, I'm Your Puppet"
by Thomas Fleming

A firsthand account.

VIEWS

Pop Culture and Politics
by Christopher Sandford

Passing by the train wreck.

From Wellstone to Franken
by Ron Kyser

The era of Gopher goofiness.

GOP Country
by Jack Trotter

A troubled marriage.

In Film, the Political Is the Personal
by George McCartney

Time for your close-up.

NEWS

Unification Issues in Asia
by Edward A. Olsen

Rethinking U.S. policy.

REVIEWS

Hitchens' Hubris
by Tom Piatak

Christopher Hitchens: god Is Not Great: How Religion Spoils Everything

plus

David Middleton on Anthony Esolen's Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature

Christie Davies on Paul Lewis's Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict

Mark Tooley on Michael Kazin's A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter to Mitt Romney: Imagination Deficit by Jason Jewell

Letter From Punxsutawney: The Slavic League by Greg Kaza

Letter From New York City: Living Communally by Jerry Salyer

VITAL SIGNS

CHRISTIANITY: Some Thoughts on Motu Proprio Mania by Mark Shea

TRADE: Free Trade and the Sacrificialists by Larry Eubank

THE SERVILE STATE: On the Lam From the Census Bureau by Doug Bandow

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION by Roger D. McGrath

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
No End in Sight, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons Movie
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

A Field of Peonies and
Why the Vikings Rejected America by John Nixon, Jr.

ON THE COVER

Cover by George McCartney, Jr.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.