The Royal Prerogative
by Thomas Fleming
Indispensable means.

VIEWS

Does the Federal Government Protect Private Property?
by Stephen B. Presser
Life, liberty, and takings.

Latter-Day Beggars
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
A lesson in apocalyptic economics from the City on Seven Hills.

Unjust Compensation
by Scott P. Richert
What's not to love?

NEWS

Property Rights Redefined
by Steven Greenhut
A new kind of blight.

REVIEWS

Civis Americanus Sum
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Lewis Dabney: Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature

plus

H.A. Scott Trask on James M. Hutchisson's Poe

Joseph R. Stromberg on Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

Paul Gottfried on Murray Friedman's The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Moscow: Dynamic Paralysis
by Curtis Cate

Letter From Arkansas: Oyster Supper
by Greg Kaza

VITAL SIGNS

OLD EUROPE: A New Solidarity
by Mark Wegiersk

A Fight for French Sovereignty
by Claude Polin

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

HERESIES
by Aaron D. Wolf

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Munich
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
POETRY
Melons by Catharine Savage Brosman

ON THE COVER

Cover by George McCartney, Jr.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson and Elizabeth Wolf.