The American Spectator

April 2013

Features

• Calvin Coolidge: His Times Are Our Times

  He was, in Amity Shlaes’ words, “the great refrainer.”

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• Black Sea Changes

  Georgia, Ukraine, and the fading blossoms of revolution.

  Matthew Omolesky

• The D Team

  Democrats have an inspiringly shallow bench for 2016 and beyond.

  Matt Purple

• Rand the Realist

  Kentucky senator Rand Paul is his own man: not a neocon or a paleoconservative, not his father’s successor.

  Matthew Walther

The Bootblack Stand

• Of Wombats and Women

  Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume three of his memoirs, tentatively titled The Education of Gomez Addams. But he has graciously consented to once again advise American statesmen in these times of trouble.

  George Washington Plunkitt

The C.S. Lewis Spectator

• Screwtape’s Little Sermon

  F.H. Buckley

The Presidential Spectator

• Dubya’s Reemergence

  The opening of his presidential center next week could prove transformational.

  William Murchison

State Watch

• Murder in the Old Dominion

  Behind Gov. Bob McDonnell’s political suicide.

  Grover G. Norquist

About This Month

• American Rand Stand

  Wlady Pleszczynski

In the Colosseum

• On Second Chances

  The former South Carolina governor on why he is running.

  Mark Sanford

Odds & Ends

• Those Dastardly Mailmen

  TAS Staff

Editorial Cartoons

• The Kids in the Candy Store

  Yogi Love

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

London Calling

• I’m Not Getting Married in the Morning

  Gay marriage and moral anarchy in the Ukay.

  Peter Hitchens

Constitutional Opinions

• The Grave Robber

  The left attempts to dig up the moldering remains of John C. Calhoun and plant them on the Republicans. 

  Seth Lipsky

Capitol Ideas

• Black Plight: In Conflict With Unions

  Why does the black establishment promote policies that hurt blacks?

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• Journalism That Dare Not Speak Its Name

  Do Washington Post reporters deal in the facts, or crusade for gay rights?

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• France Meets Ugly American

  Are French workers lazy? A tough talking tire executive takes on a Parisian political hack.

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• Whatever Happened to Tom Lehrer?

  Not much — except today is his 85th birthday.

  Gerald Nachman

Spectator's Journal

• A Think Tank With Action

  The O’Neil Center is helping to introduce a new generation to the fresh water of capitalism.

  Nicole Russell

High Spirits

• The CEO of Canterbury

  Anglicans have just enthroned a new archbishop, Justin Welby, a former top businessman.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• South Carolina on My Mind

  There’s no place like Greenville.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• As She Likes It

  It seems the answer to Freud’s famous question—What do women want?—is to be not so much equal to men as indistinguishable from them.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Up From Totalitarianism

  A remarkable ex-Marxist on God, socialism, and Princess Di.

  Joseph Shattan

• What Did You Do in the War, Benjy?

  For most present-day pundits, Benjamin Britten matters primarily as a sexual dissident.

  R.J. Stove

• Tangles of Pathologies

  Think 1968 was the year that changed America? That’s three years too late, according to James T. Patterson.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Too Left-Wing to Fail

  The true story from Peter Wallison on how we ended up with Dodd-Frank.

  George Melloan

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Benediction

  Will the new pope let his predecessor retire to his native Germany and continue his writing?

  Jeremy Lott