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 Vol. 046 Issue 008 (October 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Cory, Cory Hallelujah
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski Cory, Cory Hallelujah It's hard not to like him, even though the act wears thin. Last Memorial Day weekend I happened to be at Cornell, where rising...
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Great Scott!
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Peterson, Kyle
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In The Colosseum By Kyle Peterson Great Scott! South Carolina's junior senator on race, education, and growin' up po'. Tim scott is not a type-A personality, which makes interviewing him an...
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends Immigration Consternation I can't remember ever disagreeing with Grover Norquist. But his commentary on immigration ("Samuel Gompers Versus Reagan," TAS, Septemeber 2013) left me...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume eight of...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. August is no more, and apparently so is the medal held by our risible 2009 Nobel laureate. President Barack H. Obama, the winner of that year's...
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Where should the U.S. stand on immigration once the "Gang" falls?
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Walther, F.H. Buckley And Matthew
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Ten Paces Conservatism is not, and has never been, a monolith—no matter how much its opponents pretend otherwise. At times in its history, building unity has been the paramount concern. But this is...
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Obamanomics, R.I.P
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Moore, Arthur B. Laffer And Stephen
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Obamanomics, Rip An autopsy of an idea. By Arthur B. Laffer And Stephen Moore An old saying sometimes attributed to Mark Twain goes: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's...
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The Legend of Cory Booker
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Foster, Daniel
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The Legend of Cory Booker Newark's patron-saint mayor could do no wrong. So why does everybody hate him now? By Daniel Foster Historians of the YM-CAs "Youth in Government" legislative...
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JFK Conservative
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Stoll, Ira
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JFK Conservative It's time to re-evaluate the legacy of our 35th president. By Ira Stoll "I'd be very happy to tell them I'm not a liberal at all. "—John F. Kennedy, 1953 The photographs of...
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Dallas, 1963
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Murchison, William
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Dallas, 1963 It was no City of Hate—no matter what the Left says. By William Murchison After a time, ruts appear in the intellectual landscape, engraved through repetition of the same words, the...
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The Cuccinelli Comeback
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McCain, Robert Stacy
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Campaign Crawlers By Robert Stacy McCain The Cuccinelli Comeback Virginia's Republican candidate for governor faces a fall fight. How does Terry McAuliffe, an old Clinton hand from New York, win...
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Transparency for Thee
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Lindsay, Thomas K.
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Campus Scenes By Thomas K. Lindsay Transparency for Thee Texas's higher education battle matters beyond the Lone Star State. In Texas and across the country, too many college students are paying...
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Screwtape Dines Out
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Screwtape, Ebenezer
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The C.S. Lewis Spectator By Ebenezer Screwtape Screwtape Dines Out 14 September 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 My dear...
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Ex Parte Scalia
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Lipsky, Seth
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Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Ex Parte Scalia Could California have 120 U.S. senators? If we constitutional fundamentalists ever triumph in the courts, the person to have whispering the...
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The New, Progressive Marianne
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss The New, Progressive Marianne But we can't see her boobs, dammit. The Nugacious President of France, Francis Hollande, only one year into his five-year...
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Dull Jazeera
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Taranto, James
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Press Watch By James Taranto Dull Jazeera New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter greeted the August 20 debut of Al-Jazeera America by gushing that it was "the most ambitious American...
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This Budget Battle Is All About 2014
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Norquist, Grover G.
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The Tax & Spend Spectator By Grover G. Norquist This Budget Battle Is All About 2014 Barack obama would very much like to be president again. For two glorious years he stood athwart the nation...
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D.A. University
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Bethell, Tom
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Capitol Ideas By Tom Bethell D.A. University My time with JFK assassination investigator Jim Garrison. I Never Went to Graduate School, but I did graduate studies of a kind in a D.A.'s office....
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North Colorado?
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Fund, John
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Politics By John H. Fund North Colorado? If at first you don't secede... Americans have been living in a union of 50 states for over half a century now, ever since Hawaii and Alaska were added...
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Return to Ruby Ridge
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Bensteins Diary By Benjamin J. Stein Return to Ruby Ridge Saturday A Fabulously Interesting day here in Sandpoint. Tim Farmin and I got into my rented silver-gray Chrysler and drove to Priest...
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The Heartlessness of the Matter
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Bowman, James
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Conservative Tastes By James Bowman The Heartlessness of the Matter Over the Summer, the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued the...
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Looking Through Orwell
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Ferguson, Andrew
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Books In Review Looking Through Orwell George Orwell: A Life in Letters Selected and Annotated by Peter Davison (Norton, 542 pages, $35) Reviewed By Andrew Ferguson How much of the real George...
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Artistic Powers
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Maier, Mark
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Artistic Powers Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J.F. Powers, 1942-1963 Edited by Katherine A. Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages,...
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Wagner Through a Blizzard
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Stove, R.J.
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Wagner Through A Blizzard Richard Wagner: A Life In Music By Martin Geck (University of Chicago Press, 423 pages, $35) Reviewed By R.J. Stove The June 1980 issue of Esquire asked rhetorically on...
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Reader's Digestion
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Reader's Digestion Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food By Raymond Sokolov (Knopf, 242 pages, $25.95) Reviewed By Aram Bakshian, Jr. Let us begin with a happy ending. On the last page...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Terry McAuliffe's Gift It is called the Taranto Principle, having been named after him who coined it, the inimitable James Taranto of the Wall Street...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Current Wisdom The Progressive In another of the Prog's historic literary interviews, the lunkheads sit down with a cartoonist by the name ofAlison Bechdel, "author ofthe legendary comic strip...
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Road Ragin'
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Purple, Matt
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Last Call By Matt Purple Road Ragin' I have a disease. That may sound strange given that I'm a seemingly healthy 26 year old with a rigorous five-hours-a-day hot yoga routine. But in today's...
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