The American Spectator

February 2009

About This Month

• Hail to the Chief

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Correspondence

• Correspondence

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

On the Prowl

• The Big Fix

  The Prowler

Features

• The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

  As opposed to a desperate liberal legend.

  Peter J. Wallison

• Providing Relief from the Crisis

  How to spare the economy further crippling government intervention by suspending mark-to-market accounting

• Daschle Care

  Where Hillary Clinton failed, the team of President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Tom Daschle is determined to succeed--and the political momentum is all on their side.

  Philip Klein

• Enforcing Rules Against Radicals

  Republicans vs. David Duke -- a political memoir.

  Quin Hillyer

The Terror Spectator

• After Mumbai

  Waiting for the second shoe to drop.

  David Aikman

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Surviving Obama

  Roger Scruton

Among the Intellectualoids

• Special Thanks to Spot

  The Acknowledgments page cannot make a bad book better, but it can ruin a good one.

  Jonathan Black

Capitol Ideas

• A Culture Mired in Callousness

  The human cost of the high black abortion rate.

  Tom Bethell

Political Hay

• Minority Report

  Congressional Republicans adjust to the age of Obama.

  W. James Antle, III

Presswatch

• Blogged Down

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Finally, A Brit Who Gets It

  Joseph A. Harriss

Politics

• S.O.S. at the BBC

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• Antiquities Diplomacy

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• The Age of Fraud

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• The Mind of the Past

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• He Was There

  Peter Rodman was a wonderful and remarkable insider -- and better than anyone he knew how foreign policy is made.

  Mark Falcoff

• Essential Company

  This is a long book, and rightly so.

  Sir Martin Gilbert

• Good as Goldwater

  The unsung heroes of the Conservative Movement.

  Robert Huberty

• Shades of Gray

  H.W. Crocker III is a most provocative and engaging guide to the Civil War.

  Matthew Kenefick

The Slaughterhouse

• You Are Stupid

  J.P. Freire

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

Public Nuisances

• Back to the Wilderness

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• One With the Underdogs

  My mother was 17 when she met Alice, 40 years her senior.

  Shawn Macomber