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Vol. 046 Issue 005 (June 5 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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About This Month
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Pleszczrnski, Wlady
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About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski A World Turned Right Side Up Could it be we took Mrs. Thatcher for granted? That's the fate of many a good woman, particularly at the hands of men, as I'm...
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In the Colosseum
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Peterson, Kyle
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In The Colosseum By Kyle Peterson Back in the Fray Paul Ryan on the looming debt crisis, why we need immigration reform, and the strength of the American Idea. IT would be understandable if Paul...
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends A Beautiful Bias James taranto deals with a basic human problem ("Journalism That Dare Not Speak Its Name," TAS, April 2013): bias, agenda, worldview, paradigm, ultimate concern,...
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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 four 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. April is no more and on comes May with good news for Our President. Just as sequestration began to bite, Holy Islam's bar-bigerous inmates,...
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Revenge of the Fruitcakes
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Hitchens, Peter
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Revenge of the Fruitcakes Can Nigel Farage and the UKIP save British conservatism? By Peter Hitchens CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS in the modern world generally despise their own voters. They need...
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How Not to Buy a Fighter
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Babbin, Jed
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How Not to Buy a Fighter The F-35 isn't all things to all pilots. By Jed Babbin It's probably easier to put a man on Mars than it is to please the military with a new fighter jet. Every time...
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The Thatcher Legacy
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Mandel, Daniel
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The Thatcher Legacy She reversed history and gave it new life. By Daniel Mandel One who does not disparage politicians as a class can still say that Margaret Thatcher was something relatively...
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Behind a Quilt of Mist
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Omolesky, Matthew
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Behind a Quilt of Mist Civilization and barbarism in the South Atlantic. By Matthew Omolesky ON A MID-NOVEMBER day in 1840, the Argentine intellectual Domingo Faustino Sarmiento found himself in...
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Letter From Paris
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss Celebrating Our Lady of Paris Notre Dame has been the city's grand epicenter for 850 years. FRANCE IS THE LAND of great medieval cathedrals par excellence,...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Flynn, Daniel J.
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The Nation's Pulse By Daniel J. Flynn There's Something About Cambridge The Boston bombers should have felt right at home. Around 1770, John Singleton Copley composed a portrait of Ralph In-man....
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The Great American Saloon Series
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Nachman, Gerald
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Saloon Series By Gerald Nachman Confessions of a Soft-Drinking Newspaperman Over a 50-year career, I've neatly managed to fake my way through ive newspapers in New York and San Francisco as a...
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Constitutional Opinions
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Lipsky, Seth
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Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Happy Fourth This is a moment to feature the Fourth Amendment. The thought occurred to me recently when the Drudge Report streamed the headline, "Rand...
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Politics
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Fund, John
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Politics By John Fund Way Beyond the Lemonade Stand A paintball playing field, a lawn-care business, a pet-grooming service, pre-mixed jars of ingredients for making pastries, a smoothie store in...
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The C.S. Lewis Spectator
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Buckley, F.H.
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The C.S. Lewis Spectator By Ebenezer Screwtape Screwtape Protests 12 May 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 My dear...
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Presswatch
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Taranto, James
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Presswatch By James Taranto Gabby Giffords Poisons the Well When the Democratic Senate killed every one of President Obama's gun-control proposals on April 17, the next day's New York Times...
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Campus Scenes
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Pittman, Bond
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Campus Scenes By Bond Pittman Drink Earlier, Drink Less Each semester, The American Spectator holds its college essay contest, an opportunity for undergraduates to show their writing skills and...
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High Spirits
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Aitken, Jonathan
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High Spirits By Jonathan Aitken A Panoply of Beauties Margaret Thatcher's funeral was a memorable, moving, and magnificent occasion. Obsequies for great statesmen can be tightrope walks across...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Ben Stein's Diary By Benjamin J. Stein Gerry Ford at 100 Saturday Here I am at my desk at the Garage Mahal of our house in Beverly Hills. I'm writing a speech, or rather brief remarks, about our...
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Conservative Tastes
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Bowman, James
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Conservative Tastes By James Bowman The Mole in Don Draper Although I enjoyed the first season of Mad, Men, which aired in 2007, I got a bit bored with it thereafter. It seemed to me to have...
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Lean Feminism
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King, Florence
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Books In Review Lean Feminism Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead By Sheryl Sandberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 228 pages , $28.95) Reviewed by Florence King A half-century has now passed since...
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Overheated Frauds and Fools
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Judge, Clark S.
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Overheated Frauds and Fools The Age of Global Warming: A History By Rupert Darwall (Quartet Books, 448 pages, $45) Reviewed by Clark S. Judge Who can forget it? In April 2008, as he campaigned...
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The Lehrman Standard
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Brodsky, Paul
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The Lehrman Standard The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan Without Official Reserve Currencies By Lewis Lehrman (Second Edition, Newly Revised and Enlarged, The Lehrman Institute, 201...
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His Reach Exceeded His Grasp
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Jr, Aram Bakshian
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His Reach Exceeded His Grasp Bolivar: American Liberator By Marie Arana (Simon & Schuster, 603 pages, $35) Reviewed by Aram Bakshian Jr. Although he stood only five and a half feet tall and...
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Yes, It Can!-Maybe
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Healy, Gene
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Yes, It Can!—Maybe Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? By James Antle, III (Regnery, 256 pages, $30) Reviewed By Gene Healy As A workaday wonk who writes a weekly column,...
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Once Upon a Time in the west
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Walther, Matthew
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Once Upon a Time in the West How the West Really Lost God by Mary Eberstadt (Templeton Press, 268 pages, $25.95) Reviewed By Matthew Walther Here is A bit of intellectual history with which we...
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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. Such a Dynamic Duo WASHINGTON IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication...
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Current wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Current Wisdom New York Magazine An innocent headline by the editors of this family publication drives Miss Maureen O'Connor, writer in residence at New York Magazine, into frenzies of libidinous...
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Sweet Home, Alabama
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Hillyer, Quin
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Last Call By Qquin Hillyer Sweet Home, Alabama It's summertime, and though living might never truly be "easy," at least in Mobile, Alabama, it certainly is pleasant. Far more so than it was...
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