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Vol. 040 Issue 003 (April 1 2007)
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Let's Get Going
Regnery, Alfred S.
UMMELED IN THE FALL ELECTIONS and now in the minority in Congress, Republicans--especially Republican leaders--still haven't figured out why they lost or what they need to do to win once...
CORRESPONDENCE
CHISHOLM, T.P. DAVID,JAMES ALLENSWORTH,RALPH MACKIEWICZ,RICHARD L. DINARDO,LAWRENCE
Wonderfully Awful What a magnificent treatment of the cultural decline of Europe and thebleaknessthefutureholdsforus ("The Storks Are Landing," Daniel Johnson,TAS,March2007).Weno longer seem...
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
February proved to be one of the most delightful monthsoftheyear.Admittedly,itwasonlythesecond month of the year. Nonetheless it featured nonbinding resolutions from a Democratic Congress...
ON THE PROWL
Judicious Picks Former Solicitor General Ted Olsonisprovingtobethebiggest "get" for "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani.ThefactthatOlsonhas officially signed on as Giuliani's judicial adviser has...
ON THE ROAD TO ISRAEL
jr., r. emmett tyrrell
1 6 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. On the Road to Israel RAVEL NARROWS THE...
VIRTUALLY HILLARY
Jeffrey, Terence P.
2 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 N THE YEARS SINCE AL GORE invented the Internet, politicians have made ever more ambitious use...
THE TRUE WALL OF SEPARATION
EVANS, M. STANTON
INCETHEJUDICIALHEYDAYofEarlWarren,Americanshave grown accustomed to federal court decrees that seemingly come out of nowhere to impose radical social changesonabafflednation. The subjects of...
LIBERTY FOR STRANGERS: AMERICAN POWER AND THE PREDICAMENT OF THE ARABS
AJAMI, FOUAD
3 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 N THE SCHEME ofAmericandiplomatichistoryinthe Arab-Islamic lands, the advocacy of freedom in those domains is of recent vintage. If a...
FROM THE GUT: Sick As Usual
Gutfeld, Greg
ERE I AM, now in New York City, having moved fromLondontolaunchaTVshowforFoxNews-and the welcome gift I receive is mycoplasma pneumoniae.IhateNewYorkforthisveryreason: whenever I'm here, I get...
CAPITOL IDEAS: The Anxious Search: Are We Alone?
Bethell, Tom
ECOND STORY BOOKS IN BETHESDA has a good selection of out-of-print science books and I drop by from time to time. I was surprised to find recently that they had a whole shelf of books about the...
ECONOMICS: What's a Trillion Dollars Among Friends?
Srodes, James
REMEMBER WHEN A BILLION DOLLARS was real money. That was long ago and the time is not far off when we will start tossing around sums in the quadrillions. But still, a trillion ($1,000,000,000)...
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The Dream of the Meme
Scruton, Roger
ARDLY A WEEK PASSES THESE DAYS without an article, in some popular magazine, expounding and endorsing the "selfish gene" theory of Richard...
PRESSWATCH: 'Let's Just Say'
Taranto, James
HE BOSTON GLOBE'S ELLEN GOODMAN starts a recent column about global warming on a loopy note: On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a...
THE ORBITAL SPECTATOR: Satellites and Seriousness
Codevilla, Angelo M.
EACTIONS TO CHINA'S JANUARY 11 TEST of a direct ascent anti-satellite weapon have not been commensurate with the prospect that the U.S. military will have to fight the next war without assurance...
HIGH SPIRITS: Easter Is in the Air
Aitken, Jonathan
PRIL IS THE MONTH OF EASTER,byfarthemostimportant,ancient,andauthenticfestivalinthecalendar ofChristendom.ButtheprimacyofEasterisalong wayfrombeingaccepted,letaloneobserved,inour secular age,...
BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Damage Control
Stein, Benjamin J.
H-OH.THEHOMEOWNER'SBLUES.Iwasallpackedtogo down to our little cottage in Rancho Mirage...
CONSERVATIVE TASTES: He Wore a Yellow Stripe
Bowman, James
ENERALLY SPEAKING,theMotionPictureAcademy's voting for Best Foreign Language Film is as subject to the same considerations of political...
JAMES ROSEN: Payback From the Right
MacMillan, Margaret
ULLES ALWAYS USED TO SAY that he had to operate alone," Henry Kissinger told President Nixon on June 13, 1971, "because he couldn't trust his own...
JOHN CORRY: Family Resemblances
Craughwell, Thomas J.
immoral things in his life, but he longed to be good," shewrites,addingthat"forallhisabusesofoffice,[he] accepted and believed in democracy"), and her accounts of the trends and factors that...
FLORENCE KING: Chapter and Verve
Kitman, Marvin
WE ARE NOW AT THE PART of Stealing Lincoln's Body where susceptible readers may think they hear music: specifically, the evocative tinklingragtimeofScottJoplin's"TheEntertainer,"as orchestrated...
KEVIN LYNCH: Environmentally Sound
Buckley, James L.
thatshewillbethenextcorpseinThoseWhoTrespass. O'Reilly's claim to run a "no-spin zone" is,...
HERBERT LONDON: In the Name of Humanities
Massey, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch and Scott T.
quently rushed through without any debate. It was notunusualforasenatortoknownothingmoreabout a bill than the recommendation from his legislative aide on how he should...
PUBLIC NUISANCES: Democrats to the Rescue/Ben Is So Right
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
7 4 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 Democrats to the Rescue WASHINGTON HEREVER THEY ARE, I HOPE theauthorsofourConstitution are pondering the spectacle now...
CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
Washington Post In the invaluable pages of the Post another inscrutable report of alGore'swhereaboutsunderthefrontpage headline, "Al Gore, Rock Star: Oscar Hopeful May Be...
LAST CALL: Rail Quiet
Beston, Paul
7 8 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R A P R I L 2 0 0 7 OU CAN LEARN A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE ON TRAINS.Ispend a significant portion of my waking hours on...
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