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March 09, 2009 ISSUE

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Plain Right 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s sober conservatism 

News

Fourteen Days   
Bankers Won’t Say the “N” Word; Richard Perle Does Not Exist; Hillary Bonds With Beijing

Deep Background   
Boos for Alhurra

Articles

Health of the State 
James Bovard
The president’s plan for your medical records

Unnatural Disaster 
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Federal Reserve doesn’t fix financial instability—it causes it.

Hablas McCarthyism?   
W. James Antle III
The Left brands even moderate restrictionists as haters.

Playing Defense 
Winslow T. Wheeler and Pierre M. Sprey
There’s pork at the Pentagon, too.

Burdening Israel 
Brendan O’Neill
Is Israel the Enlightenment’s Holy Land?

Higher Law 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
For marijuana policy, states’ rights is the best medicine

A Modern Burke 
Jeffrey Hart
Like Edmund Burke, Lionel Trilling advocated salutary reform.

Columns

In These Times   
Stuart Reid
How I Learned to Love the Gray Lady

Arts & Letters

The Martyr of Castro Street   
Steve Sailer
Sean Penn in “Milk”

Killing With Kindness 
David Bromwich
Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass

The Elusive Englishman 
Jacob Heilbrunn
Benjamin Disraeli by Adam Kirsch

Central Tanking   
Philip Delves Broughton
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

 

 


Lone Wolf Tickets
By Dennis Dale - November 06, 2009
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Books for All Seasons
By Daniel McCarthy - November 06, 2009
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Hoffman And The Failures Of The National GOP
November 04, 2009 - Comments: 11

Whom Do You (Objectively) Serve?
November 04, 2009 - Comments: 4
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P.S.
November 04, 2009

On Hiatus
November 03, 2009 - Comments: 3
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Asymmetrical Politics
November 05, 2009 - Comments: 2

Whose Divisions Are Worse?
November 05, 2009
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Why Hoffman Lost
By David Lindsay - November 07, 2009

Never Met a Poor Communist
By Jack Ross - November 07, 2009
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