2006
Solemn Joy and Hot Gospel
’Twas the middle of that sacred time of year when all Americans pause to remember what is most important—Christmas Shopping Season. I had just walked through the automatic doorway of MediaPlay, out in what was then the edge of Rockford’s wasteland (the East State Street shopping corridor, which has since sprawled itself all the way to the interstate and cornfields beyond).
I was there to obtain a copy of Ars Nova’s recording of Josquin Desprez’s Missa de Beata Virgine.
Christendom Under Siege
PERSPECTIVE
Jihad’s Fifth Column
by Thomas Fleming
Collaborating with terror.
VIEWS
Eurabian Nights
by Srdja Trifkovic
A horror travelogue.
Fictional Muslims, Nonfictional Muslims
by Derek Turner
The Flying Inn revisited.
Holding a New Line
by Alberto Carosa
Pope Benedict, Islam, and the media.
The Disappearing Border—November 2006
PERSPECTIVE
El Gringo y El Mexicano
by Thomas Fleming
An amalgamation.
VIEWS
The Economic Realities of U.S. Immigration
by David A. Hartman
Counting the cost.
Pure Personality
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
The meaning of Francisco “Pancho” Villa.
Immigration, the Border, and the Fate of the Land
by Gregory McNamee
Notes on a crisis.
How Santa Ana Became SanTana
by Steven Greenhut
An irrelevant border.
Islam, Immigration, and the Alienists Among Us
by Wayne Allensworth
The breadth of the battlefield.
Saving American Manufacturing—October 2006
PERSPECTIVE
The Root of All Evil
by Thomas Fleming
Policy, purpose, and pleonexia.
VIEWS
It’s Hard Times, Cotton Mill Girls
by Tom Landess
Manufacturing, gone with the wind.
How Neutral Is the Fed?
by Greg Kaza
A measure of humility.
Giving America Priority in Trade Policy
by William R. Hawkins
Freeing American trade.
The Price of Globalism
by David A. Hartman
Assessing the fallout.
A Third Way
The American love of free enterprise has been one of this country’s greatest blessings. The same, however, cannot be said unequivocally of the economic individualism that we too often assume is an indispensable part of the free-enterprise system.
Too Much Monkey Business: Inherit the Agitprop
Watching a disaster or beholding a disintegration is inherently destructive, but there is also an element of morbid fascination. Might there be, as well, a redemptive element in tracking the entropic parabola of the great fall of yet another Humpty Dumpty?
The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion
Public figures talk about globalization as if it were the Rapture. We are told that, unlike Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, we live in an era of international trade; so these days, we must worry more about what the world thinks and does. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told the Southern Center for International Studies, “No institution of government can afford any longer to ignore the rest of the world. One-third of our gross domestic product is internationally derived.”
Educated at Home
“Let us eat and make merry.”
—Luke 15:23
“This has been a happy time: I’ve spent all day with my family, eaten a fine meal, played with my grandchildren, been to a baptism, and I went to communion.” These were the words of my uncle—with their telling rhetorical climax—on leaving his sister’s house in Eastern North Carolina one Sunday evening last fall. I was back visiting, and the family had converged for the baptism of a little “first cousin once-removed.” The baptism had been held on a communion Sunday at the Methodist church. After, there was a reception at home, with the preacher and his wife, friends, and the usual compliment of children running around the yard on all four sides of the house, messing up their good clothes.
MONKEYS IN THE CLASSROOM: September 2006
PERSPECTIVE
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
by Thomas Fleming
The right to an opinion.
VIEWS
Educated at Home
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
The pleasure that comes with struggle.
The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion
by Tom Landess
Shaping society.
Education to the Rescue
by Troy Kickler
How Radical Republican teachers reconstructed the South.
Too Much Monkey Business
by James O. Tate
Inherit the agitprop.
We Are All Socialists Now—August 2006
PERSPECTIVE
Socialism Is Theft
by Thomas Fleming
The thievery we know and love.
VIEWS
The Natural History of the Night Watchman State
by Donald W. Livingston
A culture of autonomy.
Thoughts on Socialism
by John Lukacs
The failure of Economic Man.
The Idea of Socialism
by Claude Polin
A heresy and its legacy.
Marx’s and Engels’ Illegitimate Offspring
by David A. Hartman
A nation of welfare babies.
