October 2017 - The St. Croix Review

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 10:26

Summary for October 2017

Written by Barry MacDonald

The following is a summary of the October/November 2017 issue of The St. Croix Review: Barry MacDonald finds reason for optimism in “Perspective and Motivation.” The essay “Editorial,” by Angus MacDonald, is the inaugurating editorial of volume 1, number 1 (February 1968) of The St. Croix Review. In celebration of the 50th year of The St. Croix Review, we are…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 10:35

Perspective and Motivation

Written by Barry MacDonald

Our Mission Is to Reawaken the Genuine American Spirit . . . Perspective and Motivation Barry MacDonald — Editorial The first issue of The St. Croix Review was published in February, 1968. My father, Angus MacDonald, propelled the course of this journal with fierce energy and determination. As an immigrant from Australia he fell in love with American liberty and…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 11:05

The Founding Editorial

Written by Angus MacDonald

The Founding Editorial Angus MacDonald Angus MacDonald founded The St. Croix Review in February, 1968. This essay is his first editorial in volume1, number 1. With this issue, we are offering another magazine to the American public. Because there are many excellent magazines, such a venture can be undertaken only if there is a clear and urgent need. The hope…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 11:13

What Is Religion

Written by Angus MacDonald

What Is Religion? Angus MacDonald Angus MacDonald published this editorial in April, 2002. Angus died in December, 2011. No society ever existed without a religion, but we are not sure what religion is. There are at least nine major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Shintoism, and the ones we know chiefly — Judaism, Islam, and Christianity;…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 11:21

The Task Confronting Libertarians

Henry Hazlitt

The Task Confronting Libertarians Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. This essay was published in The St. Croix Review in May, 1968. From time to time over the last thirty years, after…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 11:57

Politically Incorrect Truths about Colonialism and the Third World

Written by Philip Vander Elst

Politically Incorrect Truths about Colonialism and the Third World Philip Vander Elst Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer, lecturer, and C. S. Lewis scholar, and a former editor of Freedom Today. He can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. At a time when left-wing “anti-racist” activists are seeking to remove statues of Cecil Rhodes and other historical figures associated with…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:09

Letters from a Conservative Farmer: Memory

Written by Jigs Gardner

Writers for Conservatives, 67: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Jigs Gardner Jigs Gardner is an associate editor of The St. Croix Review. Jigs Gardner writes on literature from the Adirondacks, where he may be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Angus Wilson (1913-1991), who emerged as a leading British novelist after the war, was an admirer of Victorian literature (he wrote books about both Dickens…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:12

Writers for Conservatives, 67: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Written by Jigs Gardner

Writers for Conservatives, 67: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Jigs Gardner Jigs Gardner is an associate editor of The St. Croix Review. Jigs Gardner writes on literature from the Adirondacks, where he may be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Angus Wilson (1913-1991), who emerged as a leading British novelist after the war, was an admirer of Victorian literature (he wrote books about both Dickens…

Published in October 2017

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:22

October 2017 Poems

Written by Barry MacDonald

1. Total Solar Eclipse Even though the differences in size and The distances involved are understood And the force of gravity propelling The moon and earth about each other and Around the sun is accurately known And even though we know nowhere else in The solar system do the orbs align So much like hand and glove for…

Published in October 2017

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Summary for October 2017

Perspective and Motivation

The Founding Editorial

What Is Religion

The Task Confronting Libertarians

Politically Incorrect Truths about Colonialism and the Third World

Letters from a Conservative Farmer: Memory

Writers for Conservatives, 67: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

October 2017 Poems

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