December 01, 2008 Issue
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Planet Obama 
By Theodore Dalrymple
The world is enraptured with the new president, but his election is not the end of history



Clinton Cabinet 
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Hillary’s people could hardly have done better if they had won the election.

Africa’s Last, Worst Hope 
By Peter Hitchens
Desperate for development, a continent turns its hungry eyes to China.

Collateral Damage PDF
By Tom Streithorst
How high finance brought the real economy low

You Can Make This Stuff Up 
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Novelist Vince Flynn wrote the book on the Bush administration’s misadventures.

Enemy of Our Enemy PDF
By Neil Clark
Syria is a natural ally in the war on terror.

Left Turn Ahead 
By Dylan Hales
Left-wingers William Appleman Williams and Gabriel Kolko got it right.

America’s Judge PDF
By A.G. Gancarski
From “Beavis and Butthead” to “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge has chronicled the dumbing down of America.



Unbearable Lightness PDF
By Steve Sailer
Mike Leigh’s “Happy-Go-Lucky”

Hedge Fund Historian PDF
By Philip Delves Broughton
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Drunk Without Power 
By Jesse Walker
Forgotten Founder, Drunker Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin by Bill Kauffman

American Dissenter PDF
By David Brown
The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills edited by John H. Summers

God Save the King PDF
By Stuart Reid

Chinese Lessons PDF
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Deep Thoughts PDF
By Fred Reed



Fourteen Days PDF
Lieberman Survives; Incentivizing Default; Pirates of the Gulf of Arrr-den

Deep Background PDF
Iran Upgrades Its Arsenal; Britain’s Terrorist Count is an Imaginary Number