If Pigs Could Fly
by Thomas Fleming

Admitting defeat.

VIEWS

Iraq as “Intelligence Failure”
by Wayne Allensworth

We told you so.

Exiting Iraq
by Srdja Trifkovic

The least undesirable end.

The War on Terror Ended
by Leon Hadar

And the winner was not the United States.

Reject False Prophets
by Ted Galen Carpenter

The first step in mitigating the Iraq debacle.

NEWS

The U.N. Reform on Human Rights
by Alberto Carosa

An interview with Jan Eliasson.

REVIEWS

Imagining the Permanent Things
by Scott P. Richert

George A. Panichas, ed.: The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays

plus

Jack Trotter on David Horace Harwell’s Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him

Clark Stooksbury on R. Cort Kirkwood’s Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire

Jerry Woodruff on Charles S. Maier’s Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Cork: The Polonization of Ireland
by Christie Davies

VITAL SIGNS

FILM: Goodbye, Mr. Bond
by Wayne Allensworth

THE NEW REPUBLIC: “If I May Interrupt”: Live From the Senate Floor
by Jack Trotter

COLUMNS

THE BARE BODKIN
by Joseph Sobran

HERESIES
by Aaron D. Wolf

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

IN THE DARK
The Good Shepherd
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
—Justin Raimondo looks back on the push to war.

POETRY
A Collation of Birds
by Peter Hunt

ON THE COVER

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