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Vol. 042 Issue 002 (March 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Promisses, Promises
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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IFIND IT ENLIGHTENING to review the many promises made by incoming presidents over the years, and to then compare those promises with what they actually accomplished. The country is fixated...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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January witnessed the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, and the first of AfricanAmerican origins, though Miss Toni Morrison claimed President Bill Clinton was America’s...
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ON THE PROWL
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collateral damage Some Obama Administration insiders, including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and environmental czar Carol Browner, face potential exposure for activities they...
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OSAMA BIN ELVIS
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Codevilla, Angelo M.
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All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama bin Laden. But tell that to the CIA and all the other misconceptualizers of the War on Terror. EVEN YEARS AFTER Osama bin...
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THAT '70S HORROR sHOW
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Moore, Stephen
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Many economists have been warni ng that the policies of the last few years under the Bush administration followed by the coming economic populism of Barack Obama will lead the U.S. back into a...
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ISLAM AND FREE SPEEcH
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AMERICA threatened by the political mobilization of Islam? People who warn about threats to free speech usually like to shout about them—perhaps to show that they...
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A MODERN-DAY BLEAK HOUsE
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ROTUNDA, RONALD D.
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More than 150 years ago, Charles Dickens mocked the delays and foot-dragging in England’s chancery system of litigation in one of his finest works, Bleak House. Central to the story, delivered...
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THE ENERGY SPECTATOR: Bio-Fools
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Schulz, Max
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PRESIDENT OBAMA DREW RAVE REVIEWS for his unorthodox selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the nation’s surgeon general. Not only is Dr. Gupta an accomplished neurosurgeon, but as CNN’s in-house...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The New Humanism
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Scruton, Roger
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THE FAMILY IN WHICH I WAS RAISED WAS, in the matter of religion, typical of postwar England. There was no objection to the children receiving Christian instruction at school, and performing...
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THE PUBLIC POLICY: Why the World Is Getting Warmer, Even Though It Is Getting Colder
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Ferrara, Peter
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THE SCIENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT global warming. The data does not support global warming. Increasingly around the world, the voting public does not support global warming regulation, seeing...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Poets Galore and Subsidized Poets
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Bethell, Tom
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AFTER BARACK OBAMA WAS SWORN IN, Elizabeth Alexander read her “Praise Song for the Day.” I hesitate to call it a poem because it had so little connection to poetry as that art has been...
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THE HELLHOLE SPECTATOR: Avoiding Disaster in Afghanistan
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HALPER, STEFAN
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A FGHANISTAN IS A LAND MINE. If not handled properly, it will blow a hole in the Obama presidency before the midterm elections. Peering down the barrel of the Afghan war, Yogi Berra would...
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PRESSWATcH: The Honeymooners
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Taranto, James
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BARACK OBAMA RAN FOR PRESIDENT promising to win back the respect of “the world,” which George W. Bush has alienated. So the big question is this: How long after Obama’s inauguration will it...
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POLITICS: LaHood's Neighborhood
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Fund, John H.
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BARACK OBAMA MADE A CAMPAIGN PLEDGE to appoint Republicans to his cabinet in order to transcend old political divisions. In retaining Defense Secretary Bob Gates, a registered independent...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Defrosting Nixon
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Aitken, Jonathan
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RICHARD NIXON IS HAVING yet another comeback. As his biographer I always thought he would find a way of running again for some extraterrestrial office. Instead, his latest resurrection has...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: A Day in the Life
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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TUESDAY I nauguration day. Big, big day. I awakened at about 8:45 to listen to Mr. Barack Obama’s speech. My cable TV at my home here in Malibu has not worked for about five years. But I have my...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: Elite Escapism
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Bowman, James
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Crappy days are here again The skies above are drear again So let’s sing a song of fear again Crappy days are here again. INCE THERE'S NO ELECTION ON FOR A WHILE-and, when there is, the...
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ALGIS VALIUNAS: Socking the Angel
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Gooch, Brad
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SEMI-INVALID STRICKEN YOUNG WITH lupus who lived with her mother in a small Georgia town and attended Mass every morning, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) is the most famous Roman Catholic...
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MARK FALCOFF: Radical Sick
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Lynch, Ermesto Guevara
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Radical Sick YOUNG CHE IS THE LATEST ADDITION to the vast flood of devotional literature on the ArgentineCuban revolutionary Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara. At first blush, the inexhaustible...
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JOSEPH A. HARRISS: War by Other Means
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Johnson, Daniel
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War by Other _leans WITH ITS VIRTUALLY LIMITLESS possible moves and combinations, chess has meant many things to players since it appeared in India about the 6th century: casual pastime or...
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ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: Doctrinal Candidates
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Smith, Bruce L.R.; Mayer, Jeremy D.; Fritschler, A. Lee
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Doctrinal Candidates IT'S BEEN ALL THE RAGE in the mainstream media lately: Several studies have supposedly disproved the notion that academia presents a lopsided, leftwing worldview to...
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WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI: Huffing and Puffing
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Post, the Editors of the Huffington
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The Slaughterhouse Huffing and Puffing LAST TIME WE SAW ARIANNA (July-August, 2008), she was having a hard time trying to “focus.” This time around, no such luck. In fact, she...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: J. Gordon Coogler Award for 2008
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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TTS THE SEASON WHEN PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS give their annual awards, and with no further ceremony allow us to announce that the J. Gordon Coogler Committee has conferred its Worst Book of...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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new yorker The suave New Yorker catches Congressman John Lewis in another spasm of trite soap opera: Obama’s promise to shut down Guantanamo, to outlaw torture and begin reversing...
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LAST CALL: Lincoln at 200
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Kaplan, Roger
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YOU HAVE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS PARTISANS, you have Second Inaugural fans. The Lincoln canon contains so much of which the American language is made that you have an embarrassment of...
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