The American Spectator

July - Aug 2012

Features

• The Man Who Abjured His Native Victuals

  Thomas Jefferson’s flirtation with French cuisine.

  Thomas J. Craughwell

• Fight The Fiat

  Papering over U.S. debts and trade imbalances will take more bills than we can print.

  Lewis E. Lehrman

• Speak Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

  The gay marriage debate nears its conclusion.

  W. James Antle, III

• Murder Allegation Most Foul

  The remarkable life and imprisonment of Stephen Nodine.

  Quin Hillyer

About This Month

• Deader Than Ever

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Correspondence

• Proof and Consequences

  TAS Staff

In the Colosseum

• Tea Party Is the New Reality

  Politicians who fail to recognize it are certain to become relics of the past.

  Jim DeMint

Editorial Cartoons

• The real summer games…

  Yogi Love

The Current Crisis

• While George Was Calling Donald a ‘Bloviating Ignoramus’

  The New York Times gets on its high horse about the Romneys and their German friend.

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• Conrad Black’s Example

  Freedom was never more deserved.

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Tax and Spend Spectator

• Waiting for Taxmageddon

  A vote for Obama is a vote for an immediate $500 billion tax hike.

  Grover G. Norquist

Constitutional Opinions

• Al-Megrahi in Hell

  Seth Lipsky

The Law & Economy Spectator

• Crony Nation

  So how does the U.S. fare on measures of the rule of law?

  F.H. Buckley

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Waving, Not Drowning

  Our task is now less political than cultural — though for the young the trap has already been set.

  Roger Scruton

With the Tea Partiers

• The Crime Scene Is Local

  Because that’s where big-government spending begins.

  Ned Ryun

Capitol Ideas

• The Crisis in Europe

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• How to Replace Obamacare

  Conservatives should articulate a vision for Patient Power.

  Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara

Presswatch

• Prematurely Gay

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Color France Red

  France’s new president looks like a kinder, gentler variety of Socialist. But his programs are strictly on the left.

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• A Return to Oratory

  A Churchill exhibition in Manhattan reminds us of what’s missing in our politics.

  Andrew Roberts

Politics

• California Demon

  A state fast becoming America’s version of Greece.

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• The Great Chuck Colson

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Nothing but Fear Itself

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Up From the Ruling Class

  It’s not that our president is a snob, though he may be that too. 

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• The Ultimate Self-Made Man

  The mysterious, amazing Eric Hoffer, as captured for good by AmSpec’s own Tom Bethell.

  Aram Bakshian, Jr.

• Inflamed Literary Imaginations

  Not everything memorable has found its way into David Talbot’s catchy San Francisco retrospective.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• The Moral Case Against Serfdom

  Arthur Brooks makes the winning case for free enterprise.

  Stephen Moore

• Bad, Bad Republicans

  The Washington establishment knows who to blame for the problems it refuses to address.

  James Piereson

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Gay Like Me

  Getting on the right side of history can’t wait.

  Gerald Nachman