The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

Gulfstream and the Jaguar

Enemy Central | 12.5.03 @ 6:56PM

Can you believe your lying eyes?

Political Hay

Queer Eye for a Great Guy

William Tucker | 12.5.03 @ 12:05AM

Showtimes’s The Reagans is no threat to conservatives, confirming as it does how irrelevant the liberals have become.

Special Report

Geneva Blues

P. David Hornik | 12.5.03 @ 12:04AM

As a ceremony blessed by Colin Powell revealed this week, if voters’ lives mean nothing why should their votes be treated with any less contempt? Or their children?

Campaign Crawlers

Don't Tell Us What to Do

Patrick Hynes | 12.5.03 @ 12:02AM

There are also other things Howie Dean will learn about New Hampshire.

Washington Prowler

Cash and Kerry

The Prowler | 12.5.03 @ 12:01AM

It’s becoming an addiction. PLUS: What’s Daschle done now?

At Large

Frank Federalism

George Neumayr | 12.4.03 @ 12:07AM

Notwithstanding Rep. Barney Frank, a constitutional amendment to protect marriage is an exercise of federalism, not an attack on it.

Sports Arena

The NFL's Lonely Hero

Paul Beston | 12.4.03 @ 12:05AM

Pat Tillman, 75th Ranger Regiment, fights on.

The Current Crisis

Black Marks

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.4.03 @ 12:04AM

The cowardly press is piling on in its coverage of the British and North American press tycoon Conrad Black.

Special Report

Democracy's 'Friendly Critics'

Paul J. Cella III | 12.4.03 @ 12:03AM

Stepping back to consider what kind of democracy we've built not in Iraq -- but at home.

Political Hay

Remembering JFK: A Postscript

Rod D. Martin | 12.4.03 @ 12:02AM

In two key areas -- totalitarianism and tax cuts -- JFK wasn’t even a liberal by the standards of his time, let alone ours.

Reader Mail

Second Helpings

12.4.03 @ 12:01AM

Hillary leftovers. Soros from Budapest. Newbie bias. The Bourgeois gentleman. Plus much more.

Special Report

Kenners Wake

Jeet Heer | 12.3.03 @ 12:08AM

The great literary critic Hugh Kenner, who died last week at age 80, began his career in a characteristically eccentric way.

Washington Prowler

Terminating Tom

The Prowler | 12.3.03 @ 12:06AM

A year from now Senate Democrats will need to find themselves a new minority leader -- could it be Ms. HRC?

Another Perspective

Going to the Movies, Then and Now

Lawrence Henry | 12.3.03 @ 12:04AM

A drive-in offered a lot more than the thumps of surround-sound.

Campaign Crawlers

Tricky Dick's Winning Hand

David Hogberg | 12.3.03 @ 12:04AM

When primary voters tire of foul-mouthed Howie Dean the genial Gephardt will be there for them -- so what’s he doing trash-talking the president?

Movie Takes

In America

James Bowman | 12.3.03 @ 12:02AM

Rarely has America appeared to better effect as the fairlyland of the immigrants’ dreams -- and then the film goes trendy.

Editor's Desk

Housekeeping

12.2.03 @ 1:05PM

Political Hay

Memo to Gov. Warner: Sixty-Five Spells Defeat

J. Pepper Bryars | 12.2.03 @ 12:09AM

Virginia's taxing governor seems never to have heard of Alabama.

Another Perspective

Oldies vs. Newbies

William Tucker | 12.2.03 @ 12:07AM

The way the world works: newcomers become oldsters who keep the goodies from any new newcomers.

Live From New York

The Charlotte Plan

Ryan H. Sager | 12.2.03 @ 12:05AM

There’s a way to escape government-created public housing blight.

Special Report

Cruelty to Smokers

Gene Healy | 12.2.03 @ 12:04AM

The pall of Bloombergism has fallen over the nation’s capital.

Movie Takes

Bad Santa

James Bowman | 12.2.03 @ 12:02AM

Loathsomely bad and cynical.

Reader Mail

Something Old

12.2.03 @ 12:01AM

Clintons and the draft. Liberal kvetching. Music men. NATO and the Bear. Gays of wine and rose. Plus much more.

Loose Canons

Would You Believe? (Neither do I.)

Jed Babbin | 12.1.03 @ 12:08AM

A live report from the mouth of the EUnuch beast.

Buy the Book

Two Steps Forward

Colby Cosh | 12.1.03 @ 12:05AM

The mystery of earnest liberal moderate Gregg Easterbrook is solved: he is Canadian by background!

Washington Prowler

Tokyo Hillary

The Prowler | 12.1.03 @ 12:04AM

Baghdad’s holiday intruder. Plus: Sick leave Democrats.

Another Perspective

Stinging the Fans

Theodora Blanchfield | 12.1.03 @ 12:03AM

The music industry stoops to focus-grouping in an effort to slow downloaders.

Reader Mail

Headliners

12.1.03 @ 12:01AM

Billy Boy’s books. Supply-Spenders. Herrings specialists. Fox News haters. Gay marriage annulers. Plus more.