The American Spectator

April 2012

Features

• Solyndra Nation

  A greener shade of crony corruption — er, capitalism — courtesy of the Obama administration.

  W. James Antle, III

• The Coming Cultural Disintegration

  With his new book, Coming Apart, Charles Murray has once again changed the terms of debate in America.

  William Tucker

• The Poverty of Equality

  Fairness requires that President Obama read up on his Kurt Vonnegut.

  Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara

• The ‘Big Lie’ Defense

  The painful task of taking on the left.

  Peter J. Wallison

About This Month

• It’s Over

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Correspondence

• UNESCO: Who’s the Rogue?

The Current Crisis

• Boone-Doggle?

  The estimable Boone Pickens supports the Nat Gas Act for very sound reasons.

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• The Delousing of a Movement

  This health hazard and social menace is what the Left regards as America’s next great political cause?

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Tax and Spend Spectator

• The Tax Hike Election of 2012

  Obama and the Democrats think the promise of higher taxes will be a winner for them this year.

  Grover G. Norquist

Constitutional Opinions

• ‘A Legal Backwater’

  So many constitutions worldwide — and how many except ours recognize the right to keep and bear arms?

  Seth Lipsky

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Monumental Egos

  “Starchitects” like Frank Gehry do not build for people — they build to shock.

  Roger Scruton

With the Tea Partiers

• The Wisconsin Fight

  A sign of consistent strength in a key battleground.

  Ned Ryun

Capitol Ideas

• The Mystery of Eric Hoffer

  We know very little about his life before he was 35.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• We’re All Catholics Now

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Where’s Joan When We Need Her?

  In an election year, the French remember a 600-year-old national heroine.

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• Liberal Imperialism

  F.H. Buckley

Politics

• Human Rights Without Borders

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• Burma’s New Day

  President Thein Sein is starting to look like an F.W. de Klerk figure of reconciliation.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• At War and at Peace

  Reeling from another viewing of The World at War.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Honor Bound

  “Put your pain in a box and lock it down,” we’re instructed — correctly — in Act of Valor.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• A Good Man Who Outlived His Country

  The short, overwhelmingly sad life of Joseph Roth.

  Aram Bakshian, Jr.

• Root Hog, or Die

  Thomas Frank is an earnest liberal confounded by conservatism’s revival under Obama.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Absolute Power

  An instant classic from Mark Levin on Post-Constitutional America.

  Jeffrey Lord

• When Baseball Was More Than a Game

  That’s when someone like Bill Veeck was around and indispensable.

  James Srodes

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• After the Revolution, Then What?

  Andrew B. Wilson