7/13/2009: Vol. 014, # 40

7/6/2009: Vol. 015, # 01

6/29/2009: Vol. 014, # 39

6/22/2009: Vol. 014, # 38

 Issue Date: 7/13/2009 -  Volume 014, Number 40

Editorial

On Obama's Watch
"Bearing witness" isn't enough.
by William Kristol

Scrapbook

The 'Argentine Firecracker'

Articles

Questioning Sotomayor
The Senate hearings needn't be worthless.
by Robert F. Nagel

Reversing Sotomayor
The Ricci decision points to ongoing controversies about race.
by Terry Eastland

A Good Niebuhr Policy
The realists, so-called, are back in Washington.
by Matthew Continetti

Tehran Needs to Stop Meddling
Iran goes abroad in search of Westerners to destroy.
by Jonathan Schanzer & Howard Gumnitzky

What If Writing Were Like TV?
And now a word from our sponsor . . .
by P.J. O'Rourke

The Triumph of Crony Capitalism
Want to get ahead in business? Make friends in Washington.
by Fred Barnes

Features

Bibi's Choice
Israel approaches a moment of decision on Iran's nuclear threat.
by Peter Berkowitz

To Board or Not to Board?
That is a question to be decided in Washington, not by the U.N. Security Council.
by Jeremy Rabkin & Mario Loyola

Books & Arts

Rebel With a Cause
Margaret Thatcher, revolutionary.
by John O'Sullivan

Seeing It Now
A touch of tarnish on the 'golden age of television.'
by Terry Teachout

Additional Splendor
A 'Modern Wing' for the Art Institute of Chicago.
by James Gardner

Touch of Evil
Art imitates life, and vice versa, in 'The Stoning of Soraya M.'
by Stephen F. Hayes

Sacha Kidder
The joke was funnier the first time around.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Michael and Me
by Jonathan V. Last

Correspondence

Fortune 500, Rousseau & more

Parody

Mark Sanford's inbox

 Issue Date: 7/6/2009 -  Volume 015, Number 01

 Issue Date: 6/29/2009 - 7/6/2009 Volume 014, Number 39

Cover

The June 12 Revolution
Whatever happens in Tehran, there's no going back to the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Republic.
by Reuel Marc Gerecht

Editorial

Resolutely Irresolute
Obama dithers while Tehran burns.
by Stephen F. Hayes & William Kristol

Scrapbook

Dick Durbin's 'Insider Trading'
From the Scrapbook

Articles

Giving 'Realism' a Bad Name
The demise of idealism in Obama's Washington.
by James W. Ceaser

There's No False Choice on Iran
The consequence of a weak president.
by Fred Barnes

Steal this eBook
An Internet piracy party grows in Sweden.
by Christopher Caldwell

The Dollar's New Best Friend
Beijing warms up to the greenback--because it has to.
by Gordon G. Chang

Russia Remains the Same
It will be business as usual in Moscow whether Obama apologizes or not.
by Cathy Young

Features

No Country for Burly Men
How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs.
by Christina Hoff Sommers

Give Bankruptcy a Chance
Let's not institutionalize the bailout approach. There's a better way to deal with financial failure.
by David Skeel

Books & Arts

Picture Perfect
Why Golden Books are golden.
by Claudia Anderson

Founders Keepers
How mortal men produced an immortal Constitution.
by James M. Banner Jr.

Rhyme with Reason
The poetry's the thing in Shakespeare's sonnets.
by Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Horn of Plenty
Prez, Trane, Sonny--and Alan Greenspan?
by Joe Queenan

Child Careless
The kids aren't all right, but what are the options?
by Joan Frawley Desmond

Speech Impediment
Big Brother is actually a Canadian bureaucrat.
by Michael Taube

Arms and the Men
There are many reasons why the Turks didn't take Vienna.
by Ann Marlowe

Humor in Cuneiform
These ancient artifacts aren't as funny as the Brooks/Reiner relics.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Every Day is Man Day
Matt Labash is a man.
by Matt Labash

Parody

Iran is breezy with freedom
A parody.

 Issue Date: 6/22/2009 -  Volume 014, Number 38

Editorial

Dare to Defeat ObamaCare
The American public is right. ObamaCare is wrong. It should and can be defeated.
by Yuval Levin and William Kristol

Scrapbook

The Enemies of Gen. Jones
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

Nearer, My God
The deity in the White House.
by Noemie Emery

At Least He Isn't a Traitor to His Class
The all-too-familiar story of W. Kendall Myers.
by Sam Schulman

You Have the Right to Remain Silent . . .
Mirandizing terrorists.
by Stephen F. Hayes

An Anti-Business President
An Anti-Business PresidentProfit is without honor in Obama's view.
by Fred Barnes

Paying for the Piper
A very British scandal wreaks havoc in the mother of parliaments.
by Andrew Stuttaford

What Abortionist Killers Believe
The consequences of a fringe theology.
by Jon A. Shields

Now Comes the Hard Part
Hezbollah loses in Lebanon.
by David Schenker

Features

The Exploding Carbon Tax
The costs imposed by the cap and trade system are equivalent to raising a family of four's income tax by 50 percent.
by Martin Feldstein

The 'Dependence on Foreign Oil' Canard
The worst justification yet for Obama's energy plan.
by Jeff Bergner

Books & Arts

The Fawn Patrol
How embarrassing can the 'coverage' get?
by Andrew Ferguson

Consequential Ideas
Exploring the subtle dangers of 'soft despotism' in democracies.
by Harvey Mansfield

It's Probably True
What are the chances of great minds thinking alike?
by David Guaspari

Food, Glorious Food
A taste of the Federal Writers Project, without additives.
by Abby Wisse Schachter

Life, Interrupted
A lyrical voice from the ruins of the Balkans.
by Sam Munson

Comedy Tonight?
From Allen to Paar to Carson to Leno to just another show.
by Eli Lehrer

Formula 123
Gritty subways, cowering hostages, and Denzel Washington, too.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Little Big Man
Richard Starr remembers Omar Bongo.
by Richard Starr

Parody

Visit Uighurific Bermuda!
A parody.