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Vol. 042 Issue 004 (May 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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TO ANY POLITICIAN—especially a president—the most damaging criticism, at least apart from a seamy ethical problem, is incompetence. People just like to think those they elect are capable...
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FREEDOM WATCH
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Sanford, Mark
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WHEN ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE Spectator's ongoing "Freedom Watch," series, I welcomed the opportunity, as I don't think those of us involved in the political scene spend enough time talking...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Having a Lousy Day Your February issue discussed a book about American life by Justin Webb, a British journalist who actually lives here ("Finally, A Brit Who Gets It," by Joseph...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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The first March of the Age of Obama has passed, and with it another Obama innovation in government is confirmed. The federal government is now using the congressional confirmation process,...
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ON THE PROWL
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Doddering Dodd Senate Democratic leadership sources say that there are already internal discussions between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and some members of his inner circle about how to...
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THE FED FAILS UPWARD
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Wallison, Peter J.
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et’s understand something. Increasing regulation, and spreading it over the rest of the fi nancial economy, only solves Congress’s problem; it makes everything else worse. We’ve seen this...
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THE NATIONAL SOCIALISM OF OBAMANOMICS
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Srodes, James
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IT IS COMMONPLACE TODAY to believe we should refer to the benign innovations of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression in order to understand what is driving President Obama's team of...
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SECRETARY LOOPHOLE
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Carney, Timothy P.
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WHEN TIMOTHY GEITHNER worked at the International Monetary Fund, he managed a feat that probably very few Americans have even contemplated: he got himself reimbursed by his employer for taxes...
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THEY SHOOT CATS, DON'T THEY?
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Hillyer, Quin
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WE WERE TOLD IT WAS the first time Mike Wallace had ever apologized to an elected official on air on 60 Minutes. For all I know, it still might be the only time. And 15 years later, in this...
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POLITICAL HAY
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Antle, W. James III
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HUNTING "RINOS" HAS BECOME a favorite conservative pastime. But as the party struggles to avoid a 60-seat Democratic majority in the Senate, shutting off filibusters and meaningful debate...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
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Scruton, Roger
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IT IS PROBABLY WELL KNOWN to our readers that the British government, on the advice of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, recently prevented Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament,...
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THE NATION'S PULSE
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Murchison, William
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IT ISN'T NEWSPAPERS ALONE that seem dazed by the challenge of just staying alive amid the ruins left by technological revolution. A less-noticed casualty is the venerable newsmagazine—70 or 80...
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPECTATOR
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Schulz, Max
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WHO IS PATRICK MOORE, and why do so many environmentalists hate him? Moore has been denounced as an "ecoJudas" and a shill for the timber and nuclear industries by prominent Canadian green...
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THE PUBLIC POLICY
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Ferrara, Peter
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IN A RARE, CANDID MOMENT during last year's campaign, Barack Obama said, We can't drive our SUVs, and eat whatever we want, and keep our homes at 72 all the time, whether we live in the desert...
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CAPITOL IDEAS
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Bethell, Tom
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WORLD POPULATION, ONCE "EXPLODING," is still increasing, and "momentum" ensures that it will do so for decades to come. But fertility rates have tumbled. In Europe every country has fallen below...
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PRESSWATCH
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Taranto, James
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THROUGHOUT GEORGE W. BUSH'S SECOND TERM, journalists puzzled over why, even after opinion polls showed Americans to have soured on the Iraq war, no serious antiwar movement emerged. More...
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POLITICS
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICO.COM OPENED A rieh vein of controversy in March when it reported that "President Obama doesn't go anywhere without his teleprompter.... No other president has used one so...
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HIGHSPIRITS
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Aitken, Jonathan
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QUIRKY PHILANTHROPY AND REFORM THEOLOGY seem unlikely bedfellows, but between them they have created one of the newest and most interesting schools of divinity in the United States. Welcome to...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THURSDAY Here i am up in the air high above California. I am in a tiny little Embraer regional aircraft flown by American Eagle. In the row ahead of me is a woman with a small child who is...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES
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Bowman, James
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All art is to some extent propaganda," claimed George Orwell, a view that was the corollary of his socialist belief that all human relationships had a political dimension. Though he himself was...
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CRAIG S. LERNER
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Cirkovic, Nick Bostrom and Milan M.
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THE BATTLE TO FEED HUMANITY IS OVER. In the 1970s the world will experience famines— hundred of millions of people are going to starve to death." So wrote Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich in...
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JOSEPH A. HARRISS
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Marsh, David
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Funny Money IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN, that the federal government abolishes the dollar. Just does it because our betters have determined, in their wisdom, that it's what we need. This will boost the...
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JAMES POULOS
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Wolfe, Alan
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ALAN WOLFE WRITES POORLY ABOÜT conservatism. The most he can recommend for it is that conservatives admit "the inevitable fact of the state's existence in modern society" and "consider...
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DAVID HOGBERG
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Doherty, Brian
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WHEN THE SUPREME COURT last June handed down its ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, a friend of mine sent out an e-mail exclaiming, "I'm Legal!" Shortly before moving to our nation's...
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PUBLICS NUISANCES
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Missing Bill WASHINGTON OUR NATION'S CAPITAL IS filling with nouveau New Dealers, social engineers, men and women with a glint in the eye. All are anticipating the orgies. There is a stimulus...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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American Prospect An apparently humorless AmPro intellectualoid catalogues specimens of what very well might qualify as the magazine's ideal mums: A mother teils her child that Haagen Dazs is...
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LAST CALL
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Beston, Paul
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YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR GUY THING," my sister often says, "I'm always out of it." She means that, in our male-heavy family—four boys and lonely her— the men tend to stick together. Not that there...
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