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February 23, 2009 ISSUE

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Cover

How Radio Wrecks the Right 
John Derbyshire
Talkers like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have their place, but it shouldn’t be at conservatism’s head table.

Articles

What’s the Tory? 
Freddy Gray
David Cameron may become Britain’s next prime minister, but that doesn’t make him a role model for the GOP

Counter Intelligence 
Philip Giraldi
Can incoming CIA Director Leon Panetta fix Langley?

Our Enemy, the President 
Daniel McCarthy
The most important battle isn’t between Republicans and Democrats but between executive power and the Constitution.

Tuned in to Principle 
Christopher Manion
When principled conservatism ruled the airwaves

Mormons at the Door 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Will evangelicals welcome Mormons into their political coalition?

Fear Itself   
Otis L. Graham
Terror, hysteria, and civil liberties

Race to the Top   
Roger D. McGrath
Aztlán’s favorite son

News

Fourteen Days   
Keynesianism on Steroids; The New York Times’ Post-Post-Racial Moment; Just the Eight of Us

Arts & Letters

On the Ropes   
Steve Sailer
Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”

Sketches From a Life   
Patrick Allitt
Last Rites by John Lukacs

Wilsonian Slaughter 
Richard M. Gamble
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith and What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy by Malcolm D. Magee

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do   
Kirkpatrick Sale
The School on Heart’s Content Road by Carolyn Chute

Columns

Ethnonationalism Rules   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Free Trade in Free Fall   
Daniel Larison

Guns or Bitter 
Bill Kauffman

 

 


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The Serious People And The Fringe
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P.S.
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On Hiatus
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The Trouble With Disraeli
November 13, 2009 - Comments: 4

Asymmetrical Politics
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Are The Republicans Stupak?
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Lou Dobbs: "Bring Our Troops Home"
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