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 Vol. 044 Issue 005 (June 1 2011)
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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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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER William A. Rusher, RIP by Alfred S. Regnery Conservatism has lost its most dedicated eternal optimist. One of the last of the original conservative giants, one who...
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Freedom Watch
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Johnson, Gary
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FREEDOM WATCH Government Spends Too Much Because It Does Too Much by Gary Johnson Before we can truly bring an end to unsustainable federal deficits and debt, we must first have a very frank...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. April passes, but stop the presses! The very next day, on May 1, Mr. Osama bin Laden was shot in the head at a rather posh hideaway in glitzy...
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That '90s Show
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Antle, W. James III
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That '90s Show A Republican House bets this isn't the Clinton years all over again. By W. James Antle III Since the Republican victory in last year's elections was frequently compared to 1994, it...
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A Less Perfect Union
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Coulson, Andrew
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A Less Perfect Union How the NEA and AFT play Monopoly with your kids. By Andrew Coulson Student achievement at the end of high school has stagnated or declined, depending on the subject, since...
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Meet the Suburban Parents
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Andrews, Lewis M.
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Meet the Suburban Parents The other obstacle to public school reform. By Lewis M. Andrews Teachers unions are widely regarded as the most serious obstacle to the reform of public education, but...
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The Economics of Settlement
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Gilder, George
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The Economics of Settlement If not for Jewish settlers, there would be no Palestine and no economic progress for the region's Arab population. By George Gilder The root cause of Middle Eastern...
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Spectator's Journal
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Aikman, David
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL Crammed Onto Buses Easter in China is when the government makes clear it doesn't like China's house churches. by David Aikman Foreign correspondents in Beijing were alerted...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Moore, Stephen
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THE NATION'S PULSE Redistributor in Chief Economic growth—and consequently greater tax revenues— isn't what our president has in mind. by Stephen Moore Several years ago I had a debate with...
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The Pursuit Of Knowledge
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE The Rebirth of Nations by Roger Scruton The true finn party in Finland has broken through the left-liberal consensus to take second place in the polls, reminding...
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Politics
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS We're Tackling Trillions Now by Grover G. Norquist Political leaders and movement activists need bifocal vision. It is necessary to be able to look up along the path while also looking...
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Constitutional Opinions
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Levey, Curt
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Ganging Up on Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito by Curt Levey President obama's 2010 State of the Union address featured an unprecedented scolding of the conservative...
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Letter From Paris
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS The Power of Le Pen by Joseph A. Harriss Two cheers for Marine Le Pen. The new president of France's National Front party holds that the nation-state is the only legitimate...
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With The Tea Partiers
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Ryun, Ned
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WITH THE TEA PARTIERS Two Women of Bucks County by Ned Ryun One of the amazing aspects of the Tea Party movement is how much it is driven by women, and not just any women: many of the local...
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Politics
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICS Rule of Lawlessness by John H. Fund Is the age of obama ushering in an Era of Thuggery by his left-wing supporters? Barack Obama has made clear his admiration of Saul Alinsky, the...
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Capitol Ideas
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS The Decline of Faith by Tom Bethell Time recently published a cover story, "Is Hell Dead?" about a "rogue pastor" called Rob Bell in Michigan. We don't know for sure that anyone...
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Presswatch
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH Online Journalism's Golden Age by James Taranto The new york times erected its long-awaited online paywall in late March. In theory, that means you can no longer read the Times online...
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High Spirits
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS The Dark Side of the Arab Sprini by Jonathan Aitken The arab spring is fast becoming a winter of discontent for Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. In...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Deaths in the Family by Benjamin J. Stein THURSDAY IT IS THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY of my mother's death and I am here in Beverly Hills, lying on a long blue couch in my...
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Conservative Tastes
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES In Our Bitter World by James Bowman As our esteemed editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has recently pointed out, in the course of announcing the death of liberalism, "the...
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Magisterial and Indispensable
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Chernow, Ron
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Magisterial and Indispensable Washington: A Life By Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press, 904 pages, $40) Review by Jason Emerson At the end of the Revolutionary War, as General...
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Persuasively Enduring
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude
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The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 By Irving Kristol; Edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb; Foreword by William Kristol (Basic Books, 390 pages, $29.95) Reviewed by Joseph...
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BSU and the Troll in the Basement
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X, Andrew Ferguson/Professor
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Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College By Andrew Ferguson (Simon & Schuster, 228 pages, $25) In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic By...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Liberalism's Death Croak WASHINGTON WHILE INSPECTING THE BODY POLITIC, One enCOUnters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our...
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Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Sister Mary Holy Water (aka Maureen Dowd) ticks off Liberalism's theological indispensables just prior to John Paul II's beatification or beautification or...
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Last Call
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Lawler, Joseph
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LAST CALL Midnight at the White House by Joseph Lawler As the news began to leak on the night of May 1 that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, a crowd began to form just north...
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