The following is the February, 2026, Summary of The St. Croix Review:
Barry MacDonald, in “Golden Age,” shares highlights from President Trump’s 2026 “State of the Union Address.”
Mark Hendrickson, in “What Next for Illegal Immigrants?” asserts that criminal illegal immigrants, along with those who rely on welfare (61 percent), should be deported, but those who have clean records and don’t use welfare should not be deported, because they benefit our country; in “Trump Scraps CO2 Rule as Part of Tackling Climate Alarmism,” he exposes climate alarmism for what it is: A leftist hoax in a bid for money and power; in “In Memoriam: Robert Duvall,” he reviews and lauds the accomplishments of a great actor; in “A Super End to Another Football Season,” he reviews a season of both college and professional football. He emphasizes the Super Bowl, which he enjoyed, and the professional cap on salaries that puts the teams on an even footing over against the seemingly unlimited amount of money (more than the professionals) college players make. College teams are thusly on an uneven footing; in “When Greatness Goes Unrecognized,” he cannot understand why Chuck Negron of the rock band Three Dog Night, and Mickey Lolich of the Detroit Tigers were not inducted into their respective Halls of Fame, and cites reasons why they should have been; in “The Fiscal Folly of Handing Out $2,000 Tax Rebates,” he shows how President Trump is not traditional Republican, nor a conventional conservative, but is a populist.
Josiah Lippincott, in “Against AI Hysteria,” asserts that human ingenuity will create new and profitable ventures for whichever jobs will be lost due to AI. He writes that subsidized unemployment for those who have lost their jobs would be unjustified state coercion against taxpayers.
Paul Kengor, in “Mike, Twice Adopted, Rest in Peace,” memorializes the adopted son of Ronald Reagan; in “Carter Was to Reagan What Buchanan Was to Lincoln,” he explicitly compares presidents Carter to Reagan and Buchanan to Lincoln, and he implicitly compares Biden to Trump; in “A Haunt of Demons Shuts Its Door . . . The Fall of Margaret Sanger’s ‘Clinic,’” he celebrates the closing of the infamous eugenicist’s abortion clinic in New York City.
Timothy S. Goeglein, in “Marriage Is Love for a Lifetime, Not Love for the Moment,” writes about the early disillusion, conflicts, and challenges, that are overcome before blissful companionship.
Anthony Auspice, in “How Gen Z Became Rightwing,” explains how young white men are responding to the “woke” takeover of America.
Francis P. DeStefano, in “Foreign Film Favorites,” reviews ten foreign movies; in the “The Fight Game” he reviews two movies from the 1940s — “Body and Soul” and “The Set Up” — that are about the corruption and brutality involved in professional boxing.
Jigs Gardner, in “Letters from a Conservative Farmer — The Nature of Nature,” writes of his gradual comprehension over decades of the uncompromising, brooding presence of Nature where everything is subject to entropy.
Jigs Gardner, in “Writers for Conservatives: 18 — Joseph Conrad and the Quest for Truth,” sets Joseph Conrad’s excellence within the context of the New Criticism movement that arose from the 1890s to the 1960s after which the movement, sadly, dissolved.
