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IssueVol. 042 Issue 001 (February 1 2009)
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Paid articleABOUT THIS MONTH: Hail to the Chief
Pleszczynski, Wlady
Conservatives in washington (oxymoronic as that may sound) greeted the Obama inaugura tion with mixed feelings, to put it mildly. Some were accepting, and even attended inaugurationrelated...
Paid articleCORRESPONDENCE
exceptional Thank you all for a truly exceptional issue (TAS, December 2008/January 2009). All of the articles were outstanding. Michael No vak’s and Roger Scruton’s were exceptional....
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
December, viewed from beginning to end and with the advantage of hindsight, demonstrates incontrovertibly that President-elect Barack H. Obama is indeed a hind. On the other hand, by the end...
Paid articleON THE PROWL
The big Fix Despite the dire talk on the U.S. economy coming from President Barack Obama and his economic advisers, many inside what was then the economic transition team, including...
Paid articleDASCHLE CARE
Klein, Philip
Where Hillary Clinton failed, the team of President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Tom Daschle is determined to succeed— and the political momentum is all on their side. By Philip Klein The last...
Paid articleTHE TRUE ORIGINS OF THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS
Wallison, Peter J.
TWO NARRATIVES SEEM TO BE FORMING to describe the underlying causes of the financial crisis. One, as outlined in a New York Times frontpage story on Sunday, December 21, is that President...
Paid articlePROVIDING RELIEF FROM THE CRISIS
How to spare the economy further crippling government intervention by suspending mark-to-market accounting. Our economics editor, Brian Wesbury, has put together this symposium in the hope that...
Paid articleENFORCING RULES AGAINST RADICALS
Hillyer, Quin
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in this magazine’s occasional, ongoing series of political-event reminiscences by senior editor Quin Hillyer, each with lessons relevant to current...
Paid articleTHE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Surviving Obama
Scruton, Roger
American conservatives, still in a state of shock from President Obama’s victory, must now live with the man for whom they didn’t vote. We English conservatives have born a similar burden for...
Paid articlePOLITICAL HAY: Minority Report
Antle, W. James III
After the democrats took control of both houses of Congress in 2006, some conservatives consoled themselves with this comforting thought: they might not have the majority anymore, but at...
Paid articleTHE TERROR SPECTATOR: After Mumbai
Aikman, David
INDIANS AS WELL AS FOREIGN OBSERVERS of all kinds were quick to call the November 26–29 massacres in Mumbai “India’s 9/11.” Mercifully for India, the 10 terrorists who took part in the attacks...
Paid articleAMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS: Special Thanks to Spot
Black, Jonathan
YOU MAY THINK SCANNING THE Acknowledgments page first is like reading the weddings in the New York Times Sunday Styles section before hitting the news. I beg to differ. The Acknowledgments...
Paid articleLETTER FROM PARIS: Finally, A Brit Who Gets It
Harriss, Joseph A.
THE GLORY DAYS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM may have been in the 1970s, when marchers filled the streets of every European capital to protest against “neocolonial imperialism,” but that pernicious...
Paid articlePOLITICS: S.O.S. at the BBC
Fund, John H.
LONDON—WHEN A COUPLE YEARS AGO I met Vladimir Bukovsky, the former Soviet dissident who spent A a decade in the Gulag before being released in 1976, I asked him how he liked living in Britain....
Paid articleCAPITOL IDEAS: A Culture Mired in Callousness
Bethell, Tom
I WRITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, but our first AfricanAmerican president should have been sworn in and the inaugural festivities completed by the time you read this. On a more somber note, an...
Paid articlePRESSWATCH: Blogged Down
Taranto, James
AFTER THE 2004 ELECTION, conservatives loved blogs. “As CBS News can tell you, the rise of the Internet…is the latest and perhaps most explosive change that is shrinking liberal edia...
Paid articleHIGH SPIRITS: Antiquities Diplomacy
Aitken, Jonathan
SYRIA IS A DIFFICULT COUNTRY POLITICALLY, even for an Obama administration committed to dropping the axis of evil and replacing it with unconditional dialogue. But here is an idea for an...
Paid articleBEN STEIN'S DIARY: The Age of Fraud
Stein, Benjamin J.
SUNDAY SO HERE I AM IN RANCHO MIRAGE reading about Bernie Madoff and Marc Dreier and Governor Blagojevich and I am thinking: Now is the age of fraud. On one day there is the governor of...
Paid articleCONSERVATIVE TASTES: The Mind of the Past
Bowman, James
OBAMA MAKES HISTORY," blared the headline in the Washington Post last November 5. A few days later in the same newspaper, Robert Kaiser acknowledged this as “a statement of the obvious,” but...
Paid articleSIR MARTIN GILBERT: Essential Company
Langworth, Richard
I HAVE KNOWN RICHARD LANGWORTH, initially by reputation and then personally, for 40 years. In the late 1960s, when I was a research assistant to Churchill’s son, Randolph, Langworth wrote to...
Paid articleMARK FALCOFF: He Was There
Rodman, Peter W.; Kissinger, Henry A.
THE LATE PETER RODMAN, who died last summer, was one of those remarkable people rare in Washington—the key insider unknown to the general public and (rarer still) happy to remain that way. A...
Paid articleMATTHEW KENEFICK: Shades of Gray
Crocker, H. W. III
AN OFT-REPEATED TRUISM IS “History is written by the victors.” Certainly this has been the case of the War Between the States. Books written about the war must number in the hundreds of...
Paid articleROBERT HUBERTY: Good as Goldwater
Hoplin, Nicole; Robinson, Ron
Good as Goldwater IN NOVEMBER OF 1958, Barry Goldwater was reelected to a second term in the Senate, but Republicans lost 48 seats in the House, 12 in the Senate and 13 of 21 governorships....
Paid articleJ. PETER FREIRE: You Are Stupid
Jacoby, Susan
THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM in Washington about Sarah Palin is that she lacks intelligence and curiosity. This, coming from a city that considers ex-con and current councilman Marion Barry an...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: Back to the Wilderness
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
On December 3, 2008, The American Spectator held its 2008 Robert L. Bartley Annual Dinner, a gala banquet held for Washington Club members who have supported the magazine over the years....
Paid articleCURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
Meet the Press Ted Turner, a historical illiterate in action: We have an FBI, and we’re not preju diced against somebody who’s worked at the FBI. It’s an honorable place...
Paid articleLAST CALL: One With the Underdogs
Macomber, Shawn
LAWYER, DOCTOR, INDIAN CIZIEF, Auntie chanted mantra-like as she and her niece buffed, polished, and mopped their way through the mansion where Auntie served as maid. If an orphan like Alice...
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