The American Spectator

February 2013

Features

• The Right’s Reefer Madness

  Succumbing to the self-indulgence of the 1960s is yet one more failure of modern conservatism.

  Peter Hitchens

• Yahya Jammeh’s Charnel House

  Human rights theater, like the global outcry over Gambia’s death penalty, only obscures the real nature of lawless, despotic rule.

  Matthew Omolesky

• A New Eleventh Commandment

  In the age of Obama, the last thing we need is conservatives at each other’s throats. 

  Quin Hillyer

• He Wears Short Shorts

  The double world of Paul Krugman.

  Ira Stoll

The Bootblack Stand

• Of Ruffled Feathers and Carnivores

  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 one of his memoirs, tentatively titled Screams From My Father. 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 Talks Tactics

  Democrat demons have come into their own.

  F.H. Buckley

The Fiscal Cliff Spectator

• The Four-Year War Over Spending Begins

  Grover G. Norquist

About This Month

• Clearing the Air

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Editor's Desk

• Our Forty-Five Years

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

In the Colosseum

• Lessons From North Dakota’s Oilfields

  Building the right climate for energy development can produce remarkable results.

  John Hoeven

Odds & Ends

• Correspondence

Editorial Cartoons

• Controversial Words

  Yogi Love

The Continuing Crisis

• The 1960s Kids

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Constitutional Opinions

• Next at the Palladium

  Seth Lipsky

The Sixties Spectator

• Dolan, Not Dylan

  A new compilation of right-wing folk—featuring songs like “Join the SDS” and “Fascist Threat”—shows a new side of the 1960s.

  Shawn Macomber

Eminentoes

• Ocean State Anointed

  Meet Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee: Former Republican, current Independent, future Democrat?

  Ethan Epstein

The Great American Saloon Series

• The Spirits of Erin

  Fighting Irish whiskies are back.

  Clifford D. May

Capitol Ideas

• Islam and Islamism in the Modern World

  An interview with Daniel Pipes.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• The Medium Is the Motive

  If these killers seek recognition, it is available to them because the mass media can be counted on to pay a great deal of attention to their horrific deeds.

  James Taranto

The Nation's Pulse

• We’re Picking Up Good Migrations

  The IRS backs down on concealing the number of people fleeing high-tax states.

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• Black Punches Back

  Serious comebacks by two serious men of achievement.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Agony and Ecstasy

  Dispatches from our hero’s private oasis. From Ben’s monthly print Diary.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• All That Trash

  Bill Murray portrays President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 as if he were an anticipation of Bill Clinton in 1998.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Dung Fu Fighting

  Kyle Peterson

• The Stalinist Assassin

  Few knew Fidel Castro quite like the CIA’s Brian Latell.

  Paul Kengor

• Echoing the Last Lion’s Roar

  William Manchester and especially Paul Reid do great justice to a remarkable and admirable character.

  Aram Bakshian, Jr.

• Spies, Traitors, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots

  The subversion of FDR’s government, as retold by a master.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Abraham Lincoln, Again, and Again

  We cannot overstate his importance to America’s destiny. 

  Roger Kaplan