The American Spectator

Public Nuisances

The Democrats’ Sham Energy Bill/The Taranto Principle

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the November 2008 issue

Letter From Paris

May 1968: Something Happened (But What?)

Joseph A. Harriss | from the November 2008 issue

In Memoriam

Pat Rooney, RIP

John H. Fund | from the November 2008 issue

The Slaughterhouse

Presidential Material

J.P. Freire | from the November 2008 issue

Feature

Goodbye to Most of That

Neal B. Freeman | from the November 2008 issue

On the road in a changing in America.

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

Assorted Jackasses | from the November 2008 issue

Correspondence

Correspondence

from the November 2008 issue

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the November 2008 issue

Conservative Tastes

Culture Benders

James Bowman | from the November 2008 issue

Capitol Ideas

Crediting the Uncreditworthy

Tom Bethell | from the November 2008 issue

The Nation’s Pulse

Republicans Spent

W. James Antle, III | from the November 2008 issue

Is the GOP finally an anti-spending party?

High Spirits

Godless Capitalism

Jonathan Aitken | from the November 2008 issue

Presswatch

The War Against the Normal

James Taranto | from the November 2008 issue

Ben Stein’s Diary

Heroes and Traitors

Ben Stein | from the November 2008 issue

The Pursuit of Knowledge

The Forbidding of England

Roger Scruton | from the November 2008 issue

Note From the Publisher

In With the New

Alfred S. Regnery | from the November 2008 issue

Templeton Essay

Freedom and the Nation-State

Jeremy Rabkin | from the November 2008 issue

The nation-state is the best insurance for liberty.

On the Prowl

Bailout Fallout

The Prowler | from the November 2008 issue

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Let Friedman Reign?

Iain Murray | from the November 2008 issue

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America

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Welcome to the Madhouse

Shawn Macomber | from the November 2008 issue

Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture

Feature

Learning from the Bush Legacy

Philip Klein | from the November 2008 issue

Conservatives sold their soul to back George W. Bush. Eight years later, can they get it back?

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Nixonland Revisited

Tom Charles Huston | from the November 2008 issue

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

The Campaign Spectator

When Elections Aren’t a Perfect ‘10’

Quin Hillyer | from the November 2008 issue

Election Night 2000 in Austin

Special Report

The PLO’s Professor

Philip Klein | 10.31.08

Rashid Khalidi, Barack Obama’s frequent dinner companion, was closer to Yasser Arafat’s terrorist group than you may think.

Campaign Crawlers

Church, Rendell Find Ways to Boost Obama

Jeffrey Lord | 10.31.08

When it comes to electing Obama, ACORN, Ed Rendell, and the United Church of Christ all sing from the same hymnal.

The Nation’s Pulse

The Second Amendment Shuffle

Patrick O'Hannigan | 10.31.08

The Bill of Rights is above Barack’s pay grade.

Breaking News

ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree

Matthew Vadum | 10.31.08

Getting out the vote has never been such a racket.

Another Perspective

John McCain and John Donne

Roger Kaplan | 10.31.08

Perspectives on experience and leadership, with some help from Saul Bellow.

At Large

Beijing’s Balancing Act

George H. Wittman | 10.31.08

As the global financial crisis compounds its recent economic slowdown, China knows only how to look out for number one.

Political Hay

Rocky Mountain Blues

Melanie Harmon | 10.31.08

If this year’s Senate race is any indication, Colorado may not be a red state anymore.

Reader Mail

Stark Contrasts

10.31.08

McCain vs. McCain vs. Obama. For and against the Filioque clause. Plus more.

The Current Crisis

Who Will Protect America?

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.30.08

Father Pfleger’s Obama or Charles Krauthammer’s McCain?

Streetcar Line

McCain’s Best Argument

Quin Hillyer | 10.30.08

An American exceptionalist, now more than ever.

Another Perspective

The FBI at 100

Mark Tooley | 10.30.08

Which means most of the attention should be focused on the much maligned J. Edgar Hoover, a rather remarkable man of of his times.

Political Hay

This Is Where I Came In

Manon McKinnon | 10.30.08

The Public Policy

Pink Ribbon Reality

Peter Pitts | 10.30.08

Candidates can’t fight breast cancer while blocking life-saving treatments.

Reader Mail

Fixin’ Some Flaws

10.30.08

Obama will take a scalpel to the budget and a hatchet to the Constitution. The United States of Venezuela. The Austrians weigh in. Plus more.

Breaking News

ACORN’s Food Stamp Mortgages

Matthew Vadum | 10.29.08

The activist boosters of the Community Reinvestment Act aren’t wholly to blame for the meltdown on Wall Street, but they played a starring role.

Campaign Crawlers

‘Stand Up and Fight’

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.29.08

McCain and Palin rally the faithful in Pennsylvania.

Political Hay

Obama’s Living-Will Constitution

George Neumayr | 10.29.08

He plans to finish off the framers’ document.

Special Report

The Hugo Chavez Democrats

Peter Ferrara | 10.29.08

This is what we have to look forward to — and it’s only a preliminary list.

Among the Intellectualoids

The Cost of Hollow Words

Jay D. Homnick | 10.29.08

A professor of Holocaust studies endorses Obama on abortion grounds.

Another Perspective

It’s Best Keynes Remain Forgotten

J.T. Young | 10.29.08

Out of crisis comes opportunity for neo-Keynesians to denigrate monetarists.

The Nation’s Pulse

What Does That Make Me?

Lisa Fabrizio | 10.29.08

Yes, I’m proud to be an American.

Reader Mail

Barry for Barry?

10.29.08

Goldwater’s swing vote. Obama already above the law. Biden thinks he can get away with it. Online apologetics. Plus more.

Breaking News

Lien on Me

Matthew Vadum | 10.28.08

ACORN’s squirrelly liberals agitate for higher taxes but don’t like paying them.

Campaign Crawlers

On the Way Out

W. James Antle, III | 10.28.08

Ted Stevens’s conviction has made a Democratic supermajority more likely.

Special Report

Biden and the Tale of Aldrich Ames

Jeffrey Lord | 10.28.08

VP nominee abolished Senate Subcommittee designed to discover Soviet spies.

Enemy of the Week

Taking a Big Chance

Enemy Central | 10.28.08

Once in love with Barack, always in love with nobody else.

Political Hay

The Goldwater Standard

Brett Joshpe | 10.28.08

Would Barry really have supported Barack? His writings suggest otherwise.

Another Perspective

Premature Presidency

Mark Hyman | 10.28.08

Measuring the Oval Office drapes and meddling abroad, Obama may have run afoul of the Logan Act.

The Public Policy

Jagged Little Pills

Grace-Marie Turner | 10.28.08

The presidential candidates finally realize that reimporting prescription drugs is bad medicine.

Reader Mail

Thinking Ahead

10.28.08

Romney and friends, one step further along. Bipartisanship at its finest. Roush’s litany of abuses. Plus more.

Washington Prowler

Post-Defeat Planners

The Prowler | 10.27.08

Mitt Romney doesn’t love Sarah. Eric Cantor thinks it’s his time.

Among the Intellectualoids

The Department of Early Indoctrination

Shawn Macomber | 10.27.08

Obama devotees create a mythology for themselves — and toddlers.

Campaign Crawlers

Sunday With Sister Sarah

Larry Thornberry | 10.27.08

Pro-American Americans don’t think it’s over.

Political Hay

The Recriminations Begin

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 10.27.08

Which way for the Republican Party after the election?

Car Guy

Ford’s Brave New World

Eric Peters | 10.27.08

Style, sex appeal, and power used to sell cars. Not anymore.

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Untangling the Web

Thomas Cheplick | 10.27.08

A new book helps conservatives make their move on the Internet.

Reader Mail

Under Attack

10.27.08

Obama’s assault on Social Security. Take it Bachmann. Weather outlook: authoritarian. PETA and the Bear. Plus more.