The American Spectator

December 2012 - January 2013

Features

• Losing Mali

  The administration will not avoid further involvement in an African tribal war.

  Roger Kaplan

• O’Malley’s Tin Whistle

  The ambitious governor of Maryland stumbles toward 2016.

  George Neumayr

• Redistricting to the Rescue

  Grover G. Norquist

• Prepare for the Worst

  We will soon suffer the death, or at least the crippling, of a thousand regulatory cuts.

  Ross Kaminsky

• Recovering From Electoral Disaster

  Step one: acknowledge it was a disaster.

  Quin Hillyer

• Waiting for the Gods

  What we will see in the next four years is the monarchical government of a president determined to rule without Congress.

  F.H. Buckley

• Picking Up the Pieces

  Presumably the Republicans’ next presidential candidate will have less in common with John Kerry.

  W. James Antle, III

About This Month

• We’ve Survived Worse

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Campus Scenes

• Pollice Verso and Pigskins

  The winner of our first collegiate essay contest has answered, with verve, our query: Should tackle football be banned for corrupting our educational institutions and concussing our youngsters?

  Nina Friel

In the Colosseum

• Lessons Learned

  About to leave the Senate after three distinguished terms, Arizona’s Jon Kyl offers some parting thoughts.

  Jon Kyl

Odds & Ends

• Grenades and Guts

  TAS Staff

Editorial Cartoons

• Promising the Moon

  Yogi Love

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Constitutional Opinions

• Into the Wilderness

  We may be licking our wounds, but we still have our principles.

  Seth Lipsky

Economics

• Money and Oil

  One hundred years of monetary disorder.

  Lewis E. Lehrman

Capitol Ideas

• Fifty Years in America

  Our longtime Capitol Ideas columnist looks back.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• Taranto’s Revenge

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Slouching Toward Dhimmitude

  What rough beast is being born in France?

  Joseph A. Harriss

High Spirits

• At Work and at Prayer

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Once There Were Greenvilles

  Your monthly installment, from the print edition.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Unreal Realities

  The only thing now that is real is the propaganda that the trendies feed us.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• My Orwell, Right or Left

  Conservative can embrace his “socialism,” or at least some of it.

  Matthew Walther

• The Great Bill Rusher

  An excellent portrait of National Review’s founding publisher.

  Peter Hannaford

• On Knowing When to Shut Up

  Edmund Morris failed at one of his most important undertakings.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Books for Christmas

  Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. 

  TAS Staff

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Sorry for Your Gain

  A sad father’s indestructability.

  Daniel J. Flynn