February 2004 
Carl F.H. Henry, R.I.P.(Comments Off)
The greatest intellectual leader of the evangelical movement of the 20th century quietly passed away in his sleep at a retirement home in Watertown, Wisconsin, on December 7, at the age of 90. A scholar with the heart of an evangelist, Dr. Henry represented all of the strengths of the new evangelicalism, while exhibiting few of its flaws.
Full Story»
Charity Begins at Church
It was a delusion of classical liberals that a society could function by relying on the laws of the free market and individual competition. Along the way, they eliminated the sense of noblesse oblige that induced traditional aristocracies to accept responsibility for the poor, and they devastated the Church, which had, for many centuries, played a central role in regulating morality, caring for the poor and the sick, and educating children. When liberalism died, sometime before World War I, no one thought of looking back across the ruins of the 18th and 19th centuries for some clues as to how to remedy the destruction.
Enthusiastic Democracy
Less than a month after President Bush unbosomed his latest reflections on political philosophy before the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, one of the latest victims of his administration’s crusade to foster the “global democratic revolution” in Iraq was grousing that what the administration planned for his country simply wasn’t democratic enough.
Masters of the Universe—February 2004
Thomas Fleming on charity, Srdja Trifkovic on the destructive work of George Soros, and Fr. Hugh Barbour on the sovereignty of the Church. Plus, Sean Moir on America’s ever-growing military presence, and Cliff Kincaid on the Tobin tax.