The following is a summary of the October, 2003 issue of the St. Croix Review:

      In the Editorial, “Churches Are Failing Us” Angus MacDonald writes “the essence of the Christian faith is that our lives must be transformed with a holiness that is shown in behavior,” but that Church leaders no longer know how to show the way.

      Frank Boreham shows how each of us infects our surroundings with either our goodness or badness in the same way that a stone will create ripples when it’s thrown in a lake.

      Herbert London discusses the growth of government power in “The Triumph of Leviathan,” grade inflation at our nation’s best universities in “Degraded Grades,” recent Supreme Court decisions in “Where Do I Live?” and how the Mayor of London reduced traffic congestion by using free market methods in “London’s Traffic Tax.”          

      Allan C. Brownfeld reminds us of the Western intellectuals who chose to support tyranny instead of liberty during the Cold War in “Remembering the Enduring Enchantment with Communism of Many American Liberals.” In “Lack of Follow-Through Characterizes U.S. Efforts at Rebuilding and Stabilizing Afghanistan” he details the continuing problems the U.S. is confronting in that country.

      In his three articles Doug Tice compares our deployment in Iraq with the 15-year Vietnam War, he identifies the valid concerns in the political rhetoric about the budget deficit. And he asks why the Washington Post Co. should be exempted from the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law?

      In “A Jew Talks to Himmler” the story is told of Norbert Masur’s (a Swedish representative of the World Jewish Congress) bizarre meeting with Himmler in the spring of 1945. Himmler was trying to bargain for lenient treatment from the Allies following the war by arranging the release of Jewish women from Ravensbruck concentration camp.  Frank Fox is a professor of history and the author of many historical writings.

      The story of how three heroic men (two from enemy countries of the U.S.) risked their lives to save Jewish refugees during W.W. II. is told by Peter Egill Brownfeld in “Three Righteous Men: Fry, Perlasca, and Sugihara.”

      Why is it that over the last 50 years farmers have increased their productivity manifold, only to see their wages drop, while teachers have decreased their productivity (considering the pupil/teacher ratio) and yet have seen their wages increase at a rate much greater than inflation? Martin Harris provides the answer in “Productivity, Ag and Ed.”

      John D’Aloia Jr., in “Energy Matters,” discusses our need to develop our energy systems, and he urges us to use our most valuable resource—human ingenuity.

      Clifford Thies traces the origins of statistics and he explains why they are important in “The Historical Development and the Profound Meaning of Probability and Statistics.”

      Walter Williams gives a speech at Grove City College in dedication of a new Hall of Arts and Letters building, and in praise of the mission of Grove City College—which contrasts sharply with the nation’s 3,000 other colleges.

      Michael S. Swisher reviews The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats; A Study in Ruling-class Cohesiveness, by G. William Domhoff.