Notable essay:

Malcolm Turnbull, MP (Paliment of Australia, personal website).
"My five", The Austrlian, 01 November 2006.

Reviews several books on water resources, most focus on Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin but also includes some on America. The books reviewed are:

Australia's Water Resources: From Use to Management.
John Pigram, CSIRO Publishing, 2006.

When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When the Water Runs Out?.
Fred Pearce, Doubleday, 2006.

Rivers as Ecological Systems: The Murray-Darling Basin.
W.J. Young (ed), Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2001.

Talking Water: An Australian Guidebook for the 21st Century.
Farmhand Foundation, 2004, www.farmhand.org.au.

Water and Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin
Daniel Connell, Federation Press (February, 2007).

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water.
Mark Reisner, Penguin, 1993.

Current History, Vol. 105, No. 687, January 2006.
Issue topic: The Middle East

The article "A 'Shiite Crescent'? The Regional Impact of the Iraq War" by Juan Cole is particularly good at describing the various competing and incompatible political and religious factions in Iraq and neighboring countries.

Véliz, "The Optional Descent of the English Speaking World" (2006)

Interesting Talk

Claudio Véliz, "The Optional Descent of the English Speaking World," The Anglosphere Institute, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., 11 October 2006.

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• The Anglosphere Institute. [Update 20190115: no data]
• Hudson Institute.
• MP3 audio file, hudson.org. [Update 20190115: no audio]
• MP3 audio file, hudson.org via the WaybackMachine at Archive.org.
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Véliz discusses the voluntary adoption around the world of Anglosphere originated cultural practices, and thus the values embodied in those practices.

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Author Information:

• Claudio Véliz (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Claudio Véliz. The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Claudio Véliz. The Centralist Tradition of Latin America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980; 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Claudio Veliz

• Claudio Veliz, "The Sun Rises in the West," Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, Perth, October 2010.
  • Veliz, Part 2 of 3.
  • Veliz, Part 3 of 3.
  • The Sun Rises in the West, Perth Conference, 7-8 October 2010, YouTube Playlist, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.
  • Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, Australia.
  • Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, YouTube Channel.
  • Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, Facebook.
  • The Sun Rises in the West II, Perth, 2017, YouTube Playlist, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation and Institute of Public Affairs.
  • Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Notable essay:

Jeffrey Hart, "Ideology Has Consequences: Bush rejects the politics of prudence", The American Conservative, 20 Nov 2006.

The National Interest, Number 84, Summer 2006.

Notable essay:

The Muslim Problem and What to Do about It, Quadrant, Vol. L, No. 9, September 2006.

The leaders of Australia's two major political parties (Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Labor Party) have started to directly address this problem; American politicians continue dithering about a "religion of peace".

Science, 22 September 2006 (Vol. 313, No. 5794, pages 1700-1801).

Notable article:
"2006 Visualization Challenge"
Nice images illustrating scientific ideas.

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2006.

I found the quality of the articles in this magazine uneven, a few were good but most had me wondering why I wasted my time reading them. If you're looking for periodicals dealing with issues of public policy, history, literature, etc. from a conservative perspective, I think your time would be much better spent with journals such as: The Claremont Review of Books, The New Criterion, City Journal, The American Conservative, First Things, Policy Review.

Current History, Vol. 105, No. 693, October 2006.
Issue topic: Russia and Eurasia.

John Fraser Hart.
The Land That Feeds Us.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991 (reprint 1993).
Book information: Amazon.com.

An introductory survey of the history, economics, geography and practice of agriculture in the United States, characterising regional farming practices in the East, Mid-West and South. Much of the book is based upon the author's visits to farms in 1958/1959 and again in 1982/1983, which illustrate his discussion of why particular patterns of farming occurred in each region and how those patterns changed over time due to economic and technological factors. (Those changes include: fewer farms with greater acreages; increased specialization; increased mechanization; greater yields per acre; less labor input per unit output.)