2008 
Defining Terms(47)
Libertarians and capitalists write as if there were some natural or divine force known as “the market.” There is no such thing. There is no MARKET, only markets, and a market is a place where people exchange goods and services, sometimes but not always for money.
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How to Win the War Against Christmas
In the seven years since my first essay on the War Against Christmas appeared in Chronicles, I have had no trouble writing at least one such essay per year, because each year brings new and outrageous attempts to suppress the public celebration of Christmas. My favorite example was the 2002 winner of VDare.com’s invaluable War [...]
KEEPING CHRISTMAS—December 2008
PERSPECTIVE Christmas Nightmares by Thomas Fleming VIEWS Sola Scriptura: The Case for the Crusades by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Following Christ. How to Win the War Against Christmas by Tom Piatak Remembering how we got here. Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement by Christie Davies The British retreat as the Muslims advance. NEWS The Cold War Never [...]
The Cold War Never Ended
The recent invasion of South Ossetia by the U.S.-trained and -equipped Georgian army turned into a debacle for both Tbilisi and Washington. It also demonstrated that, for the U.S. government, the fall of the Soviet Union on December 8, 1991, did not mean the Cold War had ended.