The American Spectator

July/August 2011

About This Month

• The Jarrett Files

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Freedom Watch

• Give This Tax Credit Its Due

  A Supreme Court ruling overturns the notion that private contributions are government property.

  Trent Franks

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Features

• Remembering Ireland and Fighting for the Union

  The Irish Brigade during the Civil War.

  Thomas J. Craughwell

• He Called Me Friend

  John Paul II was a Pope both blessed and great. A special memoir.

  Michael Novak

• There's Gold in Them Thar Hollywood Hills

  Just let me see some of those old black-and-white movies…

  Gerald Nachman

• Computers Are Weapons of War

  Consequently, cyber attacks should be construed as acts of war. Are we prepared to respond accordingly?

  Jed Babbin

• Letting Obama Be Obama

  And in so doing the indispensable Valerie Jarrett insists on being allowed to be Valerie Jarrett, unvetted, unknown, unaccountable. Our July/August issue cover story.

  Paul Kengor

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Speaking Neatly

  American speech, like English speech, used to sparkle.

  Roger Scruton

With the Tea Partiers

• Whither the Tea Party?

  When rallies are no longer enough -- that's when things get serious.

  Ned Ryun

The Great American Saloon Series

• Tampico's Kickback Saloon

  Remembering good times in Ronald Reagan's birthplace.

  Christopher Orlet

Capitol Ideas

• A Nation Set Apart

  Hostility to Israel is widespread and rising.

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• Medicare Reform: Who Decides?

  Both parties know that Medicare is broke. So how are we going to fix it?

  Avik S.A. Roy

Presswatch

• The Birth of a Notion

  James Taranto

Politics

• Reagan's Note Card Treasures

  An annotated selection of those cards was recently published.

  John H. Fund

The Campaign Spectator

• Republicans on Uneasy Street

  With Obama vulnerable, we're now looking at an important, and unpredictable, Republican primary.

  Grover G. Norquist

High Spirits

• An Arab Spring Model

  Abu Dhabi is a calm crossroads of Arabia. It's not Utopia, but it works.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Shore Patrol

  Our Diarist's summer issue installment.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Can You Wiig It?

  New breakthroughs in tastelessness in the world of glass ceilings.

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• A Wonderful Life

  A New York Timesman joins in to pay tribute to the great Stan Musial.

  Larry Thornberry

• Malcolm X: All-American

  Whatever you may think of him, he was an American original.

  RiShawn Biddle

• The Ironic Chancellor

  The tragedy of Otto von Bismarck.

  Aram Bakshian, Jr.

• The Summers of Their Discontent

  FDR and Eleanor -- "an extraordinary marriage"?

  Mark Tooley

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Public Nuisances

• Public Nuisances

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• East and West

  Roger Kaplan