2004 
The Illinois Negro Code(111)
Most people believe the history of race relations in the United States is neatly divided by geography. Those states north of the Mason-Dixon Line were paragons of equality and liberty, where race was not an issue and diversity flourished in all its glory. In the benighted states to their south, however, the entire social structure [...]
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But, thou Bethlehem . . . —December 2004
Thomas Fleming on displacement, Fr. Hugh Barbour on the only blessing left, John Francis Nieto on Dante, and Fr. Alister Anderson on Southern theology. Plus, David Hartman on taxation, and a short story by Anthony Bukoski.
Taxation for Economic Survival: The Business Transfer Tax
The severity of the ongoing decline of U.S. manufacturing has placed our prosperity and national security in jeopardy. A principal cause of this crisis is the federal tax code, which currently imposes multiple layers of progressive taxation on U.S. goods.
The Plight of the Homeless
In one of Douglas Adams’ very silly books, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the egocentric two-headed president of the universe, is condemned to undergo the ordeal of the Total Perspective Vortex. It is an excruciating form of torture that exposes the criminal to a sense of the infinite size of the universe and his own small place in it.