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Vol. 045 Issue 009 (November 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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On The Eve
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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ABOUT THIS MONTH On the Eve by Wlady Pleszczynski By their standards it's a moment that will live in infamy. I'm referring to debate night, October 3, 2012, when, at least for one to two hours,...
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Moving on from Benghazi
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Green, Amb. Mark
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IN THE COLOSSEUM Moving On From Benghazi by Amb. Mark Green Each morning as I traveled to my office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I drove by a small monument to the 11 people who lost their lives...
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Pollsters in Black Robes
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ODDS & ENDS Pollsters in Black Robes Correspondence Concerning randy barnett's excellent article in the September issue ("The Wages of Crying 'Restraint,'" TAS, September 2012), a few...
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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. September made way for October, but not before it gave us its very own September Surprise! Sure, President Barack H. Obama promised in 2009 that...
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Grand Old Parties
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Barone, Michael
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Grand Ol d Parties The Republicans and Democrats retain their original character, more than a century and a half after their founding. By Michael Barone How did America's two political parties...
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A Palestinian in Texas
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Pipes, Daniel
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A Palestinian in Texas My legal battle with a suicidal maniac provides a case study for Islamist attempts at speech suppression. By Daniel Pipes On april 14, 2008, Riad Elsolh Hamad, 55, left his...
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Selling the American Dream
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Campos-Duffy, Rachel
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Selling the American Dream Can the GOP bring Hispanics home? by Rachel Campos-Duffy It was the spring of 1994. The Smashing Pumpkins ruled the airwaves. I was 22 years old, recently graduated...
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An Island Adrift
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Omolesky, Matthew
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An Island Adrift Britain and the future of Euroskepticism. By Matthew Omolesky Drawn in pale brown ink on two skins of soft vellum, the Gough Map, kept in Oxford's Bodleian Library, presents a...
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Epitaph For Le Grand Charles
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS Epitaph for Le Grand Charles De Gaulle loved France above all. The French themselves were another matter. by Joseph A. Harriss As a correspondent in Paris in the 1960s, I...
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The Other Referendum
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Norquist, Grover G.
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THE TAX & SPEND SPECTATOR The Other Referendum by Grover G. Norquist Many in the establishment will read their own favorite lessons from the entrails of the presidential election. But we don't...
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Al Gore's College Days
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Lipsky, Seth
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Al Gore's College Days by Seth Lipsky The first thing i did when word came over the wires that Vice President Emeritus Albert Gore is calling for an end to the Electoral...
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George Gilder on the Materialist Superstition
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS George Gilder on the Materialist Superstition by Tom Bethell I was at the watergate the other evening for a book party, held in the apartment of John Wohl-stetter. He has a grand...
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Jaws '12
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH Jaws '12 by James Taranto Forgive the mixed metaphor, but did the mainstream media jump the shark this summer? The expression "jump the shark" comes from the long-running 1970s sitcom...
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Fraud with Implications
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICS Fraud With Implications by John H. Fund We may be on the brink of repeating the 2000 Florida election debacle—but this time in several states, with allegations of voter fraud and...
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By a Long Shot
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Ryun, Ned
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WITH THE TEA PARTIERS It's Not Over by a Long Shot by Ned Ryun For years I've been talking about the "Long War" and the need to prosecute a perpetual campaign against the progressive left. Many...
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Religious Stirrers
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS Religious Stirrers by Jonathan Aitken Cardinal Martini shook up a heady intellectual cocktail for the Catholic Church before he passed away. His recently published last testament has...
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Points Of Interest
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Points of Interest by Benjamin J. Stein THURSDAY Where the heck am I? I awakened from a night of terrifying dreams of being kidnapped and having someone take over the steering...
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Enter Alternative Reality
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES Enter Alternative Reality by James Bowman Writing well ahead of time, I won't hazard any guesses as to how Election Day turns out, but I will predict that one expression which...
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John R. Coyne, Jr.
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Wolfe, Tom
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Remixing the Melting Pot Back to Blood By Tom Wolfe (Little, Brown, 720 pages, $30) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. Throughout the last century, each decade was rich in...
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Daniel J. Flynn
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West, Dakota Meyer and Bing
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BOOKS IN REVIEW The Battle of Ganjgal Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War By Dakota Meyer and Bing West (Random House, 256 pages, $27) Reviewed...
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Aram Bakshian Jr.
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Taylor, Richard H. Sander and Stuart Jr.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Smother Love and Unthink: What Happens When Good Intentions Yield Bad Results Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't...
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David Aikman
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Stakelbeck, Erick
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BOOKS IN REVIEW What Violent Extremists? The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government Is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat By Erick Stakelbeck (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages,...
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Close Down those Embassies/Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Close Down Those Embassies WASHINGTON ALLOW ME TO OFFER A SUGGESTION as to how our government might avoid the slaughter of our personnel in diplomatic...
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Assorted Jackasses
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series A highly promising scientific study ofthe male armpit undoubtedlyfunded by the National Science Foundation is brought to hopeless foozle by Miss Naomi Wolfs...
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Survey Says…
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Lott, Jeremy
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LAST CALL Survey Says… by Jeremy Lott On a recent starry saturday night, your redneck correspondent passed up the chance to see a monster truck rally to go to a friend's basement and watch two...
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