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FEATURES:

Energy�s Prevailing Winds 16
The American Spectator interviews legendary oilman.
T. Boone Pickens

May Day In Stalin World 22
An amusement park rooted in a nightmare that will not be soon forgotten.

Sin No More 28
Liberty, the West, and the Judeo-Christian heritage

DEPARTMENTS:

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER 6
Civility and Freedom
Alfred S. Regnery

Correspondence 8

THE CONTINUING CRISIS 10
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

On The Prowl 14
The Prowler

Spectator�s Journal 36
Upstream . . . and Uphill
Robert Stacey McCain

THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE 40
Freedom and God
Roger Scruton

CAPITOL IDEAS 44
A Britain No Longer Great
Tom Bethell

PRESSWATCH 48
Attack of the Keller Tomatoes
James Taranto

LETTER FROM PARIS 50
Style is the Man, Alas
Joseph A. Harriss

POLITICS 54
The Water Left
John H. Fund

High Spirits 56
Fitness Training
Jonathon Aitken

BEN STEIN�S DIARY 58
A Few of My Favorite Things
Benjamin J. Stein

CONSERVATIVE TASTES 62
The Shock is Over
James Bowman

PUBLIC NUISANCES 78
Pants on Fire/Gaza Syndrome
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

CURRENT WISDOM 76
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

LAST CALL 78
Third Partying
W. James Antle III

BOOKS IN REVIEW:

Jeremy Rabkin 64
Constitutional Unease
Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate
Edited by Steven G. Calabresi

A More Perfect Constitution 23
Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country
By Larry J. Sabato

Logan Paul Gage 67
Where the Evidence Leads
There Is a God: How the World�s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
By Antony Flew with Roy Abraham Varghese

Joseph A. Harriss 68
Present at the Creation
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
By Jay Winik

Matthew Kenefick 71
Unbanned in Boston
The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston�s Catholic Culture
By Philip F. Lawler


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