Chinese Monkeys on Our Backs
by Thomas Fleming

VIEWS

Beginning With History
by Clyde Wilson
Revisions and deviations.

David Hume: Historian
by Donald W. Livingston
The core of the bookshelf.

The Dean of Western Historians
by Roger D. McGrath
Billington and the frontier culture.

BIOGRAPHY

George Garrett
by Fred Chappell
1929-2008.

REVIEWS

How Posner Thinks
by Stephen B. Presser

Richard A. Posner: How Judges Think

plus

Tom Landess on Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves
Company, Mark Royden Winchell, ed.

Clark Stooksbury on Andrew J. Huebner's The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture From the Second World War to the Vietnam Era

Catharine Savage Brosman on Christian Wiman's Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Ukraine: Dispelling the Darkness of Secularism
by Matthew A. Rarey

VITAL SIGNS

Historiography: Studies of Character
by Sean R. Busick

Commonweal: Be Not Afraid
by Mark Shea

Sports: Umpires
by John Willson

COLUMNS

The Bare Bodkin
by Joseph Sobran

Under the Black Flag
by Taki Theodoracopulos

Heresies
by Aaron D. Wolf

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

The American Interest
by Srdja Trifkovic

In the Dark
Brideshead Revisited, The Dark Knight
by George McCartney

What's Wrong With the World
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY

Post Card, Cage, and
Tróia by William Baer

ON THE COVER

Cover by Sandy Faulkner.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.