New Wine in Old Bottles
by Thomas Fleming
The Christian war on the family.

VIEWS

The Perpetual Family
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
From Rome to Las Vegas to Blackheath and back.

Love on the Rocks
by Aaron D. Wolf
A new covenant.

Rejecting Marriage
by Christopher J. Check
The elephant in the room.

NEWS

Staying the Course
by Edward A. Olsen
The unintended consequences.

Collision Course
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Taiwan, China, and the United States.

REVIEWS

Target Hit, No Bull's Eye
by Ivan Eland

George Packer: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

plus

Bill Kauffman on Wendell Berry's The Way
of Ignorance and Other Essays

Joseph Scotchie on Marion Elizabeth Rogers' Mencken: The American Iconoclast

Clyde Wilson on Kevin M. Kruse's White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Tom Piatak on Scott Eden's Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame

Michael Stenton on Leon Hadar's Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Japan: Heading for Extinction
by Russell Board

Letter From New York City: Family Matters
by Mark G. Brennan

VITAL SIGNS

COMMONWEAL: Born Again Again
by Jack Trotter

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger D. McGrath

BREAKING GLASS
by Philip Jenkins

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Crash
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
POETRY
Pastoral and
The Bright Ones by Richard Moore

ON THE COVER

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