December 2012
Editorial
Political Capital, Not Campaigns
Front Lines
Arab Spring, Israeli Winter
Martin van Creveld on what the Muslim uprisings mean for Israel
Revenge of the Reality-Based Community
My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong.
Articles
Paying Tuition to a Giant Hedge Fund
Harvard’s academic mission is dwarfed by its $30 billion endowment.
The Myth of American Meritocracy
Hotlisted in the New York Times — Ron Unz’s expose on inequality in Ivy League admissions
Commentary
Taki’s School Days
The Party That Lost America
I Clean My Gun and Dream of Galveston
A dispatch from Glen Campbell’s valedictory tour
CIA’s Benghazi Role
Intelligence agents answer to Langley, not the State Department.
Arts & Letters
Utopia by the Slice
Living the Faith: A Life of Tom Monaghan, James Leonard, University of Michigan, 424 pages
Gun Control, RIP
Living With Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment, Craig R. Whitney, PublicAffairs, 304 pages
Are You Better Off Now?
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Robert Sirico, Regnery, 256 pages
Capitalist Cure
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity, Luigi Zingales, Basic Books, 336 pages
Girls on Top
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, Hanna Rosin, Riverhead, 320 pages
