The following is a summary of the February, 2004 issue of the St. Croix Review:

      In the editorial, “Ronald Reagan,” Angus MacDonald writes about the times, challenges, and accomplishments of President Reagan.

      In his three articles Allan C. Brownfeld describes a growing divide within the conservative movement in “The Term ‘Big Government Conservative’ May Be an Oxymoron, But It Is a Growing Reality”; he writes about a neglected national security need in “The Time Has Come to Secure America’s Weakly Defended and Porous Borders”; and he throws cold water on the movement to free a prisoner in “The Ill-advised Campaign to Release Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard.”

      Herbert London has six essays. In “The Family and the Nation” he writes about the disintegration of the family and its consequences; he writes about the many types and the historical context of “Anti-Americanism”; he compares the British experience in the 19th century with ours in “Pax Americana vs. Pax Britannica.” Dr. London describes an emerging strategy in “Sharon Defines New Israeli-Palestinian Relations”; in “The Ghost in Israel” he tells how the Israeli economy remains encumbered by socialism; and in “Dumb, Dumber and ‘Dumberest’” he watches the downward spiral of American culture as reflected on TV.    

      In the second of a series of four essays on “What Is Libertarianism and Why Is It Important?” Philip Vander Elst traces the Western classical liberal tradition. He writes about the thoughts of John Milton, and John Stuart Mill, and he compares historical periods to highlight the horrors of 20th century fascism and Communism.

      John D’Aloia Jr. takes a look at the mystique recycling has acquired in “Taking Recycling Myths to the Dump.”    

      Anthony Harrigan in “Neanderthals Revisited” considers the most recent scholarship on the other group of highly intelligent humanoids that lived on earth. He suggests the Neanderthals may have been the kinder and gentler group. They might have been our moral superiors!

      John Howard covers the lasting consequences of September 11 in “How Quickly We Forget!”

      In “Social Justice vs. Civil Justice,” Miller Upton writes that we are becoming a socialist republic, in which the national government is committed to the redistribution of wealth instead of the protection of individual rights.

      In “Tabloid Politics: Formatting Ideology” Irving Louis Horowitz reviews the impact of those publications, in tabloid form, that have sprung into being since the 1960s. These publications are usually associated with university professors and usually represent views of the “hard left.” The publications addressed are the New York Review of Books, the Boston Review, The Women’s Review of Books, and the Ruminator Review.

      In the Book Review section Arnold Beichman reviews The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American Left, by James Weinstein; and Michael S. Swisher reviews Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, by Carroll Quigley.