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May 04, 2009 ISSUE

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Cover

How Right Was Reagan? 
Richard Gamble
At a time when they should be returning to first principles, conservatives look instead to their favorite matinee idol.

Articles

What Would Burke Do? 
Daniel McCarthy
Reviving the Constitution depends on restoring the tie between church and state.

Summer of ’69 
John Buffalo Mailer
My father’s campaign to liberate New York from New York

By the Book 
Jeremy Beer
Reports of the death of publishing are greatly exaggerated.

The Money Pit   
Nicholas von Hoffman
Left and Right think it’s 1930 again, but America isn’t that country anymore.

Guilt Trip   
Paul Gottfried
Eric Foner reconstructs history to fit the PC agenda.

The Harding Way 
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Warren Harding knew that government stimulus only prolongs depression.

Finding Atlas 
Stephen Cox
As Ayn Rand’s sales soar, remember Isabel Paterson, the woman who inspired her.

Columns

Song of the South   
Fred Reed

All On Brown   
Stuart Reid

Fourteen Days   
Reading the Tea Party Leaves; Cutting Millions, Spending Trillions; Kerry Bails Out His Base—the Media

Deep Background 
Denny Hastert Talks Turkey

Arts & Letters

Capitol Offense   
Steve Sailer
Russell Crowe in “State of Play”

Springtime of Their Discontent   
Septimus Waugh
1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport

Fault Lines 
Mary Wakefield
Descent Into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

The End of Enlightenment 
Donald Livingston
The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott

 

 


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TGIF: The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
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A Sure Path To Self-Destruction
November 20, 2009 - Comments: 8

The Serious People And The Fringe
November 19, 2009 - Comments: 2
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P.S.
November 04, 2009

On Hiatus
November 03, 2009 - Comments: 4
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The Trouble With Disraeli
November 13, 2009 - Comments: 4

Asymmetrical Politics
November 05, 2009 - Comments: 4
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Are The Republicans Stupak?
By David Lindsay - November 20, 2009
Comments: 2


Lou Dobbs: "Bring Our Troops Home"
By Jack Hunter - November 20, 2009
Comments: 3

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