The Suicide Strategy of the West
by Thomas Fleming

Turkish bizarre.

VIEWS

The Emerging American Empire
by Douglas Wilson
Mammon versus Allah.

The Rise of China
by William R. Hawkins
Seeing is believing.

Transforming the Middle East
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Washington's high-stakes gamble.

Getting Europe Straight
by Srdja Trifkovic
Slouching toward Eurabia.

NEWS

Why Russia Does Not Fear an Iranian Bomb
by Wayne Allensworth
(But Israel does.)

REVIEWS

The Dictator of the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

John Lukacs: A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century and Democracy and Populism: Fear & Hatred

plus

H.A. Scott Trask on Thomas De Zengotita's Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It

Clyde Wilson on William Faulkner's Essays, Speeches & Public Letters, James B. Meriwether, ed.

Catharine Savage Brosman on Richard Wilbur's Collected Poems: 1943-2004

Paul Gottfried on Paul Franco's Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From the Neuroimaging Lab: The Machine in the Sacred Wood
by Brian Kirkpatrick

Letter From Lebanon: The Lure of Lebanese Quicksand
by Doug Bandow

VITAL SIGNS

TECHNOLOGY: Digitize Me: For Your Disinformation
by Marian Kester Coombs

THE JUDICIARY: An Appointment to the Supreme Court
by William F. Harvey

POLITICS: Defining Natural Law Down
by Gladden J. Pappin

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

IN THE DARK
Sin City
by George McCartney

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DICTATIONS
by Humpty Dumpty

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
At Concord by David Middleton

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.
Additional inside illustrations by Elizabeth Wolf.