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May 9, 2005 Issue

Upon This Rock
By Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Pope John Paul II defied an Evil Empire and defended an unfashionable morality.

Pre-emptive Executions?
By Steve Sailer
Economist Steven Levitt contends that abortion reduces crime rates. The numbers tell a different story.

Courting Disaster
By Peter Hitchens
The union of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles plays into the hands of those who would abolish the monarchy.

Lights Out at GE
By Timothy P. Carney
Bloomington taxpayers are subsidizing the export of their own jobs to Mexico.

Doomed to Repeat It
By William R. Polk
Americans occupy Iraq but don’t understand it.

Red Sun Rising
By James P. Pinkerton
The U.S. shouldn’t presume that the PRC wants a peaceful future.

The Taxman Cometh
By W. James Antle III
Big-spending Republicans contemplate breaking their tax pledge.

The One About the Mossad and the Gay German
By Steve Sailer
Israeli director Eytan Fox’s “Walk on Water”

Enemy of the State
By Daniel McCarthy
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society by Robert Higgs

An Ambiguous
Conservative
By Edward Feser
An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke edited by Ian Crowe.

Jelly Roll & All That Jazz
By Ralph de Toledanod
The genius of Jelly Roll Morton

CAFTA: Last Nail in the Coffin?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
If you thought NAFTA was bad, meet CAFTA

No Way to Treat a Friend
By Taki
Mexicans si, Mark Thatcher no

Fourteen Days: Inspections for Israel; Never Trust a Spy Named Curveball; Minutemen Do Job Bush Won’t

Deep Background: For pro-democracy Arabs and Turks, Palestine is not the top issue. Egypt is.

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