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 Vol. 047 Issue 005 (June 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Coarse Correction
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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ABOUT THIS MONTH by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Coarse Correction nother month, another step in our public degeneration. In his listless performance before the White House Correspondents' Association, our...
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The Continuing Crisis
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jr., r. emmett tyrrell
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. April turns to May, and all of a sudden things have become very perilous for Vice President Joseph Biden. In the beginning of the month he was...
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Odds & Ends
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ODDS & ENDS The Metaphysical Martini By Werner F. Dannhauser November 1981 Tom bethell's essay on "The Divided States of America" (TAS, April 2014) reminds us once again of the primordial...
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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 fifteen...
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The Prosecutor
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ELLIOTT, AMANDA C.
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IN THE COLOSSEUM by AMANDA C. ELLIOTT The Prosecutor Rising GOP star Trey Gowdy on his trademark style, suing the president, and respect for The Process. Summer in the south can be a...
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Is donor disclosure good for the Right?
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MARKAY, MATT COVER AND LACHLAN
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TEN PACES Is donor disclosure good for the Right? Sunlight Is Still the Best Disinfectant by MATT COVER The recent public bullying of Mozil-la CEO Brendan Eich seems to have caused some...
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The GOP Needs Real Heroes
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Freeman, Neal B.
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The GOP Needs Real Heroes Stop looking for redux Reagans. by NEAL B. FREEMAN The media reports these days make conservatives look like a fractious bunch—as indeed we sometimes are. I am deeply...
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When the Cold War Cooled Down
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ADELMAN, KEN
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When the Cold War Cooled Down Reagan, Gorbachev, and a haunted house in the Land of Fire and Ice. by KEN ADELMAN schooled in French literature. Nor did he make a stab at pronouncing Steingn'mur...
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Chasing Down the Ghost in the Machine
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Derbyshire, John
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Chasing Down the Ghost in the Machine Losing consciousness in Arizona. by JOHN DERBYSHIRE Writing The Principles of Mathematics in the spring of 1901, Bertrand Russell got stuck on a simple...
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The Ad Man Goes to War
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Lileks, James
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The Ad Man Goes to War Learning from the Life archives. by JAMES LILEKS Imagine if you'd turned on your TV a few months after 9/11 and seen a car ad that showed a man in a uniform, tossing the...
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A Fake Newsman in Late Night?
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Zeiser, Bill
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CULTURE VULTURES by BILL ZEISER A Fake Newsman in Late Night? CBS taps Stephen Colbert. David letterman, host of the long running Late Show on CBS, announced his intention to end his tenure in...
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The Shocking Monsieur Shakespeare
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS by JOSEPH A. HARRISS The Shocking Monsieur Shakespeare Bardolaters are enjoying a movable feast in this 450th anniversary year of William Shakespeare's birth. It began...
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Dis-United Kingdom?
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Lipsky, Seth
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Dis-United Kingdom? Scotland eyes the exit. What an opportunity for America is shaping up in the constitutional crisis in Britain, starting with the...
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The Growth Gap
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Moore, Stephen
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ECONOMICS by STEPHEN MOORE The Growth Gap Where is the economy today, and where should it be? If ronald reagan will be forever known as the "Great Communicator," Barack Obama is on track to go...
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All You Need to Know
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH JAMES TARANTO All You Need to Know ...is that Ezra Klein's Vox is nothing special. All you need to know" was for years the slogan of KNX 1070, a CBS-owned and -operated news radio...
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Saving Sportswriting
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MCMORRIS, WILLIAM
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THE NATION'S PULSE by WILLIAM McMORRIS Saving Sportswriting Fantasy reporters write about the game, not social issues. Bob costas is tired, exasperated even. You can see it in his eyes—that is,...
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Communist Day in New Haven
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Kengor, Paul
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COMMIE WATCH by PAUL KENGOR Communist Day in New Haven The communists are wrecking this country!" a senior citizen shouts at me at an event, as a bemused bystander looks on, rolling her eyes,...
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Defunding the Democratic Party
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS by GROVER G. NORQJJIST Defunding the Democratic Party The republican and Democratic parties are not mirror images of each other. They are built on radically different foundations. The...
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Burning Ring of Fryer
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Lott, Jeremy
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES by JEREMY LOTT Burning Ring of Fryer Can our correspondent vanquish the Diablo Burger? I, teremy lott, being at least 18 years of age, and of sound mind, agree...
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India's Jekyll and Hyde
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS by JONATHAN AITKEN India's Jekyll and Hyde Narendra Modi challenges his country s caste-ridden elites. This year's election in India, a marvel of modern democracy with 815 million...
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Making Friends and Enemies
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEINS DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN Making Friends and Enemies Thursday Almost every day I run into some kindly soul who asks me if I am still doing Win Ben Stein's Money. The answer is no. I...
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Requiem for the Chatterley Classes
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN Requiem for the Chatterley Classes y obituary s written," a tearful but paradoxical Eliot Spitzer told Vanity Fair a year or two after his forced resignation...
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Le Capital
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Piereson, James
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ARTS & LETTERS Le Capital Capital in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty (Belknap/Harvard, 685 pages, $39.95) Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Reviewed by James Tiereson Thomas piketty...
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Flash Noise
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Kaminsky, Ross
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Flash Noise Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt By Michael Lewis (WW Norton, 288 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by ^qss Kaminsky Michael lewis is one of America's most successful storytellers. But the...
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Till Death Us Do Part
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OLMSTEAD, GRACY
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Till Death Us Do Part Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human By William Tucker (Regnery, 256 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by (J.racy Olmstead The breakdown of the family is often pegged...
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Arguably Rides Again
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Thornberry, Larry
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Arguably Rides Again A Literary Education and Other Essays By Joseph Epstein (Axios Press, 636 pages, $24) Reviewed by Jarry Thornberry Word has gotten around. Most who appreciate the form agree...
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Public Nuisances
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jr., r. emmett tyrrell
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PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The Press Never Calls WASHINGTON My telephone is not ringing off the hook. No intriguing or inquiring emails have arrived on my computer. Yet on Friday...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Review of Books NYR Blog On the rant page of the revered NYRB, Garry Wills sounds quite plausible for a change: Obamacare is now, for many, haloed with hate, to be fought...
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Music of the Trilobites
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Tushnet, Eve
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LAST CALL by EVE TUSHNET Music of the Trilobites I read John Darnielle's 2011 novel Master of Reality under the unfamiliar constellations of Australia—which was fitting, since the slender book is...
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