January 12, 2009 Issue
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Where Have All the Neocons Gone? 
By Jacob Heilbrunn
Will the crew who brought us the Iraq War stick with the GOP or return to their Democratic roots?



Bailout Blago 
By Justin Raimondo
The Illinois governor isn’t uniquely corrupt—just unusually candid.

McGovern Beats Nixon 
By Daniel McCarthy
The South Dakota senator transformed the Right even more dramatically than the Left.

Bad Deal 
By Sheldon Richman
Obama should learn the real lesson of FDR’s presidency: more public spending didn’t end the Depression.

Fight of Their Lives 
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Obama’s abortion policy puts life on the line.

Burmese Days 
By Jim Pittaway
In Burma, the military dictatorship and its democratic opponents are equally intransigent.

Perfect Sowing PDF
By Jeremy Beer
An agrarian aristocrat reaps his last harvest.



Fourteen Days PDF
Stop the Dollar Presses; Madoff Money; Whack the Dog

Old and Right PDF
John T. Flynn on regimenting the economy, then and now

Deep Background PDF
Change Turkey Can’t Believe In; Taliban Surges; Where in the World is Ben-Ami Kadish?

Simple the Best PDF
By Stuart Reid

Spending Our Way to Solvency? PDF
By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Politics of Same PDF
By Fred Reed



Through a Glass Darkly PDF
By Steve Sailer
Meryl Street and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”

The Beautiful and the Damned 
By Mary Wakefield
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden

Krugman’s Nanny State 
By David Gordon
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Forgive Me For Getting Caught PDF
By Peter W. Wood
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America by Susan Wise Bauer