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By Joseph Lawler on 6.10.09 @ 10:07AM

Hmm... very shortly after his brother becomes chief of staff for the new president, Ariel Emanuel shocks Hollywood by ascending to power broker status. Helps to have friends in high places, I guess (NY Times)

Self-recommending: Anne Applebaum on Soviet spies and sympathizers in the U.S. (The New Republic)

What the pope understands about Judaism that Obama doesn't (Spengler/First Things)

Social conservatives got screwed by the people who were supposed to be in their pocket. (W. James Antle, III in the Politico)

Joseph Lawler was formerly managing editor of The American Spectator. Follow him on twitter: @josephlawler.

Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. Our symposium on choice from the May, 2012 issue:

The Fairness Delusion

By Charles Murray

The speech our President should make.
Media Smears: One Man’s Experiences

By Thomas Sowell

A noted economist fires back.
Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists

By Malcolm Gladwell

How political can you get?
The Reagan Doctrine

By Gregory A. Fossedal

You might have missed it, but it was boomed in January.
The Woman Problem

By George Will

Farcical feminism is a decades-old phenomenon, as George Will's essay from 1970 reminds us.