The following is a summary of the articles in the June, 2003 issue of the St. Croix Review.

      Angus MacDonald starts with a seeming jest in “A Presidential Platform” and goes on to draw distinctions between modesty and ambition, democracy and our system of government. He comes to conclusions about the present situation in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

      In “Ramblings” Allan C. Brownfeld demonstrates that the Founding Fathers gave the Congress and not the president the authority to declare war. He calls for a renewed debate over the process that the U.S. uses as it goes to war. In his second essay he discusses the flawed reporting that gave the Communists undeserved honor in the 20th century in “Reconsidering Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize—and Media Coverage of the Cold War.”

      In “A Word from London,” Herbert London writes that Americans should be bold in our national aspirations, that we should continue with an ambitious exploration of space, and try to bring liberty and individual rights to the Middle East. He examines the quality of thought shared by those who demonstrated against the war in Iraq. And, in his final essay, he presents quotations from Saudi Arabian textbooks that display an uncompromising hatred for Jews and Zionism, and he asks, Can peace in the region be possible when such enmity exists?

      Joseph Fulda tells a charming story about his father and New York in “Libertarian’s Corner—New York’s Style.”

      Doug Tice considers an emerging division within the conservative movement concerning the extent to which American values should be imposed abroad in “New Foreign Policy Vision Reflects a New Breed of Conservatism.” 

      Anthony Harrigan in “Inside America: The Culture of Sedition,” traces the long history of seditious actions that have taken place within the U.S. since its founding. Our present problems originated in the large-scale immigrations from Russia during the 1880s to 1890s that brought in the ancestors of our modern-day leftists. Prominent in this monograph are Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, the “red diaper babies,” Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Ramsey Clark, Sean Penn and many others.

      John D’Aloia Jr. combines a discussion of the collision between the rights of smokers and nonsmokers with a story of an incident at sea in “A Submariner’s Tale.” 

      In “the Hope of America Rests with Her Teachers” Thomas Martin writes about the natural aristocracy, the cardinal virtues and Christian virtues, and he draws upon the thoughts of Aristotle, Plato, Jefferson, John Adams, and others of the Founding Fathers.

      Craig Payne demonstrates that how an argument is framed is central to whether it obtains the ring of truth in “A Simple Argument of Objective Moral Laws.”

      Peter Brownfeld calls attention to a part of the world that the West has forgotten in “Could Chechnya Become a Terrorists’ Haven?”

      Mario Vargas Llosa explains the reasons for the widespread mistrust among the people in “Why Does Latin America Fail?”

      Michael S. Swisher reviews Richard Deacon’s The Cambridge Apostles: A History of Cambridge University’s Elite Intellectual Secret Society.