November 2012
Editorial
Front Lines
No Quotas, No Elite Public High School
How Los Angeles undercut its pathbreaking IHP project
Boris Johnson’s Coup
London’s mayor is pagan, popular, and aspires to be prime minister.
Why Conservatives Hate War
Conflict erodes a nation’s cultural continuity as well as its finances.
Paris in Fall
A traditionalist rediscovers American liberty in France.
Articles
How the Rich Rule
Libertarians know the financial system is rigged.
Who Killed Rudy Giuliani?
How Ron Paul won the war for conservatism’s future
Close Encounter
The last days of the Cold War’s greatest journal
Ten Years in the Right
A decade of The American Conservative—and its enemies
An Iceberg Called Bernanke
Manipulating interest rates is only the tip of the Federal Reserve’s agenda.
The Path of Khan
Will Pakistan’s most famous cricketer become its next leader?
Mind of the New Majority
Pat Buchanan is more than a conservative—he’s Nixon meets Spengler.
Arts & Letters
Screening Liberty
The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty and Authority in American Film and TV, Paul Cantor, University Press of Kentucky, 488 pages
What the People Want
“An Enemy of the People,” by Henrik Ibsen, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre,
New York, directed by Doug Hughes
New York, directed by Doug Hughes
Getting a Read on Rand Paul
Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds, Rand Paul, Center Street, 280 pages
The Sun Sets on American Empire
The Short American Century: A Post-Mortem, Andrew J. Bacevich, ed., Harvard University Press, 287 pages
Founding Financiers
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas K. McCraw, Belknap Press, 496 pages
Honky-Talk Woman
What’s the Matter With White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, Joan Walsh, Wiley, 278 pages
Whose City? Which Hill?
In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth, Richard M. Gamble, Continuum, 224 pages
Post-Colonial Prophet
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, Pankaj Mishra, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 356 pages
