The next issue of StAR is almost ready to wing its way to the printers. This issue’s theme is “Religion and Politics”. Here’s a sneak preview of the highlights:

Daniel J. Mahoney examines Solzhenitsyn’s “Anguished” Patriotism.

Thomas Storck considers “Catholicism as Cult and as Culture”.

Christopher O. Blum examines the relationship between “Investment and the Common Good”.

Blum also remembers the late Warren Carroll, Catholic historian and founder of Christendom College, who died on July 17th.

Robert Asch pays tribute to Otto von Habsburg, who died on July 4th.

Andrew V. Abela, in “Shire Economics”, teaches the valuable lessons to be learned from Middle-earth.

Jef Murray’s colourful paintings of the Shire illustrate Abela’s article.

Kevin O’Brien looks disdainfully at the public display of “the religion of political correctness”.

Susan Treacy’s regular music feature examines the religion and politics behind Meyerbeer’s opera, Les Huguenots.

James Bemis, continuing his series on the Vatican’s approved films, admires Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life.

Father Dwight Longenecker looks at the conflict between “secular and sacred power” in two films by Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons and The Mission.

Father Benedict Kiely admires a “fearless preacher of the truth” in the Third Reich.

Published for the first time, “The Last Letter of a Catholic Martyr”, written on the day before he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.

David Twiston Davies looks at the love-hate relationship between the Irish and the British Monarchy.

Deborah Savage examines the economic teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

C. J. Wolfe loks at “Christianity, Democracy, and the American Idea” in the work of Jacques Maritain.

Seana Sugure grapples with “the political problem of religious pluralism”.

Clara Sarrocco sympathizes with Edith Stein and Companions on their way to Auschwitz.

Dena Hunt passes judgement on “Ten Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Imposter”.

Joseph G. Trabbic admires a new translation of Aquinas’ “Treatise on Human Nature” from the Summa Theologiae.

Plus new poetry from Philip C. Kolin and Mark Amorose.

And, last but hopefully not least, my own editorial on the issue’s theme and an additional essay addressing “the Evolution Controversy”.

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