Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

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WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW

Vol. 30 No. 8—August 2006

PERSPECTIVE

Socialism is Theft
by Thomas Fleming
The thievery we know and love.

VIEWS

The Natural History of the Night Watchman State
by Donald W. Livingston
A culture of autonomy.

Thoughts on Socialism
by John Lukacs
The failure of Economic Man.

The Idea of Socialism
by Claude Polin
A heresy and its legacy.

Marx’s and Engels’ Illegitimate Offspring
by David A. Hartman
A nation of welfare babies.

NEWS

Russia’s Demographic Crisis
by Wayne Allensworth
What Putin didn’t say.

America’s Other War
by Ted Galen Carpenter
The deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

REVIEWS

Right Deserves Might
by Daniel McCarthy

James R. Holmes: Theodore Roosevelt and World Order
Patricia O’Toole: When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House

Jack Trotter on Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Srdja Trifkovic on Stephen Glain’s Mullahs. Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World

James Vogel on Philip Jenkins’ Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America

Clark Stooksbury on Lynn Vincent’s and Robert Stacy McCain’s Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Zimbabwe: The Meaning of Racism
by Edward Dutton

Letter From Hvar: Withstanding the Fire
by Mary Kohler

VITAL SIGNS

THE SERVILE STATE: Why I Am Not a Socialist
by G.K. Chesterton

COMMONWEAL: Death and Life of a Great Urban Thinker
by Steven Greenhut

IMMIGRATION: A Liberal Policy
by Joe Prussing

COLUMNS

Sins of Omission
by Roger D. McGrath

Letter to The Bishop
by Joe Ecclesia

The Rockford Files
by Scott P. Richert

European Diary
by Andrei Navrozov

In The Dark
The Da Vinci Code
by George McCartney

The Hundredth Meridian
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

Polemics & Exchanges

American Proscenium
—Leon T. Hadar on Iraq after Zarqawi

Cultural Revolutions
—James O. Tate on what the obituaries tell us.
—Aaron D. Wolf on church conventions and temporary insanity.

Poetry
Alone in the Highlands
and
At Colloden Field
by Peter Hunt

ON THE COVER

Cover by George McCartney, Jr.
Inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson and Nicholas Garrie.

/Yr 2006/August | print | permanent link | Letter to the Editor

Each month Chronicles, edited by Thomas Fleming, takes a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of American culture and politics. As original as they are independent, Chronicles' editors have been years ahead in predicting the major conflicts and crises of our time: the end of the Cold War and the rise of "isolationism," the immigration crisis, the worldwide resurgence of ethnic conflict, the collapse of American higher education, and the multiculturalism debate.

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Scott P. Richert

SENIOR EDITOR FOR BOOKS
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