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Vol. 040 Issue 002 (March 1 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: A Parting of Ways
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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WILL NEVER FORGET WANDERING throughtheAmerican Cemetery near Omaha Beach in Normandy several years ago. Nearly 10,000 American boys are buried there, in row upon row of graves, each with a...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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COLBURN, STAN AND DONNA DEVORE, LAURIE PRICE, JEROME
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Ben's Words We won't pretend to read or understand every word in each issue of TheAmericanSpectator,butBen Stein's Diary in the DecemberJanuary issue entitled "Trouble...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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January witnessed still more evidence that the sad emotional decline of Mr. Tucker Carlson continues. Precisely when it began is unclear, though he has reportedly been increasingly edgy since the...
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ON THE PROWL
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Dog and Donkey...
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2008: THE BATTLE FOR A GENERATION
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jr., r. emmett tyrrell
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1 4 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 ILLARY CLINTON is about the last major Democrat from the left-wing of her generation capable of taking on her generation's...
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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
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EVANS, M. STANTON
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2 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 ACK IN THE...
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IT'S GOING TO COST YOU
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Macomber, Shawn
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2 6 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 OTHEPASSERBYCAUGHTUNAWARES,thesceneinside asmallroomwithinthegargantuanBostonConvention Center must have resembled a scene from...
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THE STORKS ARE LANDING
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Johnson, Daniel
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3 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 HE QUESTION THAT ANIMATES THIS ESSAY is one that troubles not only Americans, but the friends of freedom and democracy everywhere....
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LONDON BUREAU: Looking Stupid
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Gutfeld, Greg
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AM GOING TO SEE A FRIEND OF MINE, an underground American comic named Neil Hamburger, open for Tenacious D tonight. He's played at sold out...
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LETTER FROM PARIS: Royal Mistress
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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O NEED TO PLAY cherchezlafemme inFrance'sperfervid election season, with its 40-odd--many veryoddindeed--candidatesvyingforpresident of all Gaul. She has dominated political discourse here...
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PRESSWATCH: Who's Counting?
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Taranto, James
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LTHOUGH YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED it amid the holidays and the news of Gerald Ford's death, the last weekof2006broughtnotonebuttwo"grimmilestones" in the Iraq war. The first was reported...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The Culture of Repudiation
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Scruton, Roger
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HE ENGLAND INTO WHICH I WAS BORN was a country thatacknowledgeditspast,itsinstitutions,andits culture. It remembered its national heroes, and rejoicedinitsvictoriesintwoworldwars.Ourhistory...
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AMONG THE REPUBLICANS: Granite State Fissures
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Klein, Philip
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N ACHILLYJANUARYDAYinManchester,NewHampshire, as snow flurries silently float to the ground, Paul Mirski sits at a table in the Merrimack...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Our Permanent Revolution
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Bethell, Tom
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HE PHRASE PERMANENT REVOLUTION wasfirstusedby Marx and later by Trotsky. Revolutionaries at the time believed that economics explained everything. If only they could knock over the...
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POLITICS: Name That Tax
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Fund, John H.
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ITH THE DEMOCRATIC TAKEOVER of Congress, official Washington is lusting for tax increases--and coming up with new euphemisms to hide the ugly fact. It's time for a recap of the current state...
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HIGH SPIRITS: The Force Behind Wilberforce
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Aitken, Jonathan
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ARCH WILL BE A MONTH of Wilberforcemania as the world commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807. In the United States...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Making Memories
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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ERE I AM IN LAS VEGAS. I am in a spectacular room attheWynnhotel.I'mgearinguptogiveaspeech totheEquipmentDistributors.Theroomislovely. Great view, high ceilings, gorgeous furniture, but loud...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: Slaves to Moral Self-Congratulation
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Bowman, James
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S SOON AS I SAW THE HEADLINE in the Sunday WashingtonPost,"NoI-told-you-sos"(subhead:"OpponentsoftheIraqWarVoicePain,NotVindication, At Predictions They Could Only Hope Would Be Wrong"--the...
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ALGIS VALIUNAS: American Idol
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Pollack, Howard
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HE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937), from thenumberlesssongstoRhapsodyinBluetothe operaPorgyandBess,isamongthemostesteemed native artistic glories; but it also presents a question for...
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FLORENCE KING: In Sickness and In Health
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Vidal, Gore
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NOWHERE ELSE in Gershwin's music are the joy and the sadness so overwhelming as in Porgy and Bess. Set in Charleston's black slum, Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess is the story of a cripple...
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LEE EDWARDS: Three Who Made a Revolution
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O'Sullivan, John
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HeinzKerry'sfirsthusband.Doesthismeanthatheand PrincessMargaretwerelovers? These are one type of Vidal story, not proven but well within the realm of possibility all the same. Another type of...
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CONRAD BLACK: Doing Civilization's Work
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Roberts, Andrew
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mament policies of the left in Britain and on the European continent. As a counter to several hundred Soviet SS-20s aimed at Western Europe, NATO...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Washington Monthly Onthemarmorealpagesof WMthe Tawana Brawley of 1991 remains, infallible, cherished, and with the hintofahalo: Nothing much changed until...
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LAST CALL: Double Trouble
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Mitchell, Amy K.
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8 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 James Bond on Jack's Turf: Taunts Bauer Again, Calls Him"Rubbish"--NewYorkTimesheadline February30,2007 FTER MONTHS OF...
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