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Vol. 040 Issue 008 (October 1 2007)
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Class of 1967
Regnery, Alfred S.
T'SCAUSEFORCELEBRATIONwhenanymagazineturns40, especially an opinion magazine. And when that magazine is The American Spectator, you have a real...
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE: Whose Reagan? An Exchange
Diggins, John Patrick
ETER J. WALLISON'S review of my book, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History ("Reagan Co-opted," TAS, July/August 2007), is so full of utter distortions that a reader could...
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
August passed, but the Clintons' Chop Suey Connection returned! It was first identified in these pages back in 1995, when Mr. James Ring Adams apprehended Indonesian bankers of Chinese...
ON THE PROWL
Governor George Former Virginia senator and governor George Allen is looking for a political comeback, but not in the Senate, even though his former colleague, Sen. John Warner,...
BULLISH ON 2008
Norquist, Grover G.
1 8 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 HERE ARE FOUR REASONS for Republicans to approach November 2008 with optimism. First, much of the case for continued Democrat...
THE WINGERS' GAME: A CAMP DIARY
Freeman, Neal B.
If football is war by other means,Albany,New York,is Parris Island. If football is war by other means,Albany,New York,i Parris Island. 2 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O...
SCENES FROM A CRACK-UP
Macomber, Shawn
W 2 6 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 Scenes From a rack-Up The DailyKos crowd convened in Chicago as the second coming of the Democratic National...
LETTER FROM BAGHDAD: Three Months of Dysfunction
Mylroie, Laurie
Y THREE MONTHS RECENTLY SPENT in Baghdad clarifiedtheconsiderabledifficultiesfacingtheUnited States in Iraq. Baghdad is very much a city at war, under siege by insurgents seeking to make...
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Altruism and Selfishness
Scruton, Roger
HE FIRST PIECE OF MORAL ADVICE thatparentsusedto give their children was contained in the Golden Rule:Doasyouwouldbedoneby.Christianparents backed this up with the parable of the Good...
FROM THE GUT: A Rotten Affair
Gutfeld, Greg
T'S A REALLY SAD THING whena14-year-oldboyisahead taller than you, but for me, it's not just sad, it's a reality. My nephew Garrett, whom I haven't seen in six months, has experienced a growth...
CAPITOL IDEAS: The Great Blunder
Bethell, Tom
NE QUESTION THAT COMES TO MIND in connection with the Iraq disaster is this: Why did we decide that Iraq ought to be a democracy? And a constitutional democracy--if that isn't a...
POLITICS:Green Inhumanity
Fund, John H.
OVE OVER, MICHAEL MOORE. You have competition in the art of political film-making from a 24-year-oldunemployedRomanianminer.And instead of advancing the cause of smug liberal hypocrisy, he's...
PRESSWATCH: Issues of Narrative
Taranto, James
N A SUMMER POSTMORTEM on the Duke University rape hoax,RachelSmolkinoftheAmericanJournalismReviewsummedupmuchofwhatiswrongwithjournalism today: Perhaps the most complex lessons about...
HIGH SPIRITS: Georgias on My Mind
Aitken, Jonathan
ROM ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TO TBILISI, GEORGIA, is a long journey across continents, cultures, and huge dividesofwealth.Yethavingrecentlyvisitedbothcapitals I can also say that both Georgias have...
BEN STEIN'S DIARY: The Making of an Economist
Stein, Benjamin J.
HATAHELLISHDAY.LastnightasIwascomingin from a lovely day in Malibu, I decided I was hungry.Ihadbeencravingacornedbeefsandwich and so I went to a little 24-hour deli in Santa Monica called...
CONSERVATIVES TASTES: Right-Wing Fantasy
Bowman, James
Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, I smile--but she doesn't see... ELL, DUH! But Antonio Carlos Jobim wasn't really as dumb as he...
WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI: Washington's Prince
Novak, Robert D.
AM NOT A PERSON WHO IS EASY for a lot of people to like," Bob Novak writes early in this not-massiveenough memoir. But how can anyone ever dislike someone who never fails to make an...
DAVID AIKMAN: Up From Slavery
Aitken, Jonathan
Up From Slavery THIS YEAR IS AN IMPORTANT ONE for anniversaries of Christian work. It marks the 200th anniversaryofthearrivalinCanton,China,of Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary...
JOSEPH A. HARRISS: Europe Was Yesterday
Laqueur, Walter
his death in 1807, months after the trade had actually been abolished, Newton was mentor, guide, and friendtoWilberforce.Itwasanextraordinarilyinfluential friendship. His careful, precise...
W. JAMES ANTLE III: Chafee at the Bit
Laffey, Steve
Danish newspaper publishes satirical cartoons of Muhammad; after a storm of protest, Berlin's Deutsche Oper delays plans to stage a Mozart opera with a scene of The Prophet's severed head;...
PUBLIC NUISANCES: John McCain Battles On/Hastert La Vista!
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
7 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 John McCain Battles On WASHINGTON READ FOUR NEWSPAPERS A DAY, occasionally more. I watch television news and listen to radio...
CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
The Great Books Series Part-time anthropologist Bill Clinton records a typical African greeting prefatory to the customary outbreak of small arms fire: In Africa, where the first...
LAST CALL: Atheist Chic
Thornbury, Gregory Alan
7 4 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 AMILY VACATIONS ARE OVER, and the children have gone back to school. For many of us, the time...
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