The American Spectator

April 2009

Note From the Publisher

• Sailing to Obamaland

  Alfred S. Regnery

Freedom Watch

• Political Greed

  "Freedom is a fragile thing," Reagan said. Introducing Freedom Watch, a new monthly column in which a prominent public figure addresses growing threats to our freedom and what's being done to defend it -- "for it comes only once to a people"

  Jim DeMint

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

On the Prowl

• On the Prowl

  The Prowler

Features

• There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom

  Everyone's looking for energy fixes in all the wrong places.

  William Tucker

• Scientific Pretense vs. Democracy

  Arrogance and intolerance in the name of superior expertise are antithetical to popular governance and the requirements of honest argument. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming a central feature of our political life.

  Angelo M. Codevilla

• Wrestling With Capitalist Pigs

  When capitalists are held to the same low standards as government, what kind of future can capitalism possibly have?

  Philip Klein

• Obama's Global "Narrative"

  Fuzzy feelings and a confused grasp of the human condition.

  David Aikman

The Congressional Spectator

• Blue Dogs Roll Over

  But the House Democratic leadership wants them to play dead.

  W. James Antle, III

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• The Long Run

  Muhammad, Keynes, and the avoidance of personal responsibility.

  Roger Scruton

Economics

• Demand and Supply

  There are two types of economists -- make that two types of people -- in the world.

  Brian Wesbury

Capitol Ideas

• Obama's Inauspicious Start

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• We're All Keynesians Again

  If only Keynesians knew their own history.

  Joseph Lawler

Presswatch

• A Times Leader

  What do Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Muammar Qaddafi have in common?

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Girl Trouble

  In French politics, one never knows what to expect -- or who is expecting.

  Joseph A. Harriss

Politics

• Making Every Census Count

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• National Prayer Bazaar

  America's National Prayer Breakfast is in danger of becoming an empty social ritual.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• From Coolidge to Harding

  Wondering what Mr. Obama knows.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Two Cultures in One

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• Up From Diplomacy

  Machiavelli could not have written a better book.

  Fred Iklé

• The Towering London

  A brief but telling account of the soup of moral and intellectual confusion into which a significantly telling number of us Americans have currently gotten ourselves.

  Midge Decter

• Lincoln's Decisive Switch

  An indispensable study on Lincoln's rise to greatness.

  Jason Emerson

• Taking a Walk on the Supply Side

  The timing of this book's publication is peerless.

  Nick Schulz

The Slaughterhouse

• Frozen in Time

  Pictures from a four-day exhibition.

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Last Call

• Retirement

  Joseph Shattan