THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH: July 2007

THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH: July 2007 by Chronicles • July 1, 2007 • Printer-friendly

The July 2007 issue of ChroniclesPERSPECTIVE

Ted’s Timor Mortis
by Thomas Fleming

Stumbling past the half-truths.

VIEWS

Americans Don’t Die!
by Roger D. McGrath

Casualties, from republic to empire.

Portraits
by George Garrett

Some notes on the poetry of growing old.

The Last Adieu
by George McCartney

A wake for the living.

A Dirge for the Living
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.

Happily ever after?

NEWS

Tethering the Hegemon
by Ted Galen Carpenter

The transatlantic divide on the use of force.

REVIEWS

An American Patrician
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

John Lukacs: George Kennan: A Study of Character

plus

James O. Tate on Clyde N. Wilson’s Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture

David Middleton on William Baer’s Writing Metrical Poetry

Fr. Michael P. Orsi on Debby Applegate’s The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

Andrea Kirk Assaf on Kevin Seamus Hasson’s The Right to Be Wrong

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From Serbia: Serbia in Our Own Image
by Andrea Crandall

Letter From Quebec: Talking About Culture
by Sean Scallon

Letter From Texas: Well Into Spring, Even With Snow
by Wayne Allensworth

VITAL SIGNS

CONSERVATISM: The Enigmatic Professor Strauss, Part I
by Claude Polin

FOREIGN POLICY: Kosovo and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
by Joseph E. Fallon

COLUMNS

THE BARE BODKIN
by Joseph Sobran

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
The Hoax
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES

AMERICAN PROSCENIUM

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
—William R. Hawkins: “A COM for Africa”
—R. Cort Kirkwood: “The GOP’s Clinton”

POETRY

Coffee Shop Impersonal and Praying Hands
by Wilmer Mills

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson.

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