The American Spectator

June 2009

Note From the Publisher

• Up from Obama

  Alfred S. Regnery

Correspondence

• Correspondence

Freedom Watch

• Freedom Can't Be Rationed

  The truth is, government-run health insurance takes away citizens’ freedom. From our June issue.

  Rep. Mike Pence

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

On the Prowl

• On the Prowl

  The Prowler

Features

• Pro-Mexico

  U.S. policy toward our southern relative and neighbor is deeply flawed -- and the small-minded right has been no more enlightened. Our June cover story.

  Angelo M. Codevilla

• Tiananmen Twenty Years Later

  In this year of awkward anniversaries, the Chinese Communist regime is finding it impossible to suppress the memory of the massacre of June 4, 1989.

  David Aikman

• The Salvaging of Notre Dame

  If it's not a credible Catholic university, what's the point?

  Joseph Lawler

• The Gates Budget

  It is less risky than the strategy upon which it is based.

  Dov S. Zakheim

The Marital Spectator

• Judges Not

  Vermont and the new democratic push for same-sex marriage. From our June issue.

  W. James Antle, III

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Farewell to Judgment

  Why do young people today refuse to accept criticism from anyone older, who might know a thing or two more than they do?

  Roger Scruton

The Grassroots Spectator

• After the Tea Parties

  Even before anybody dreamed of the Tea Parties, a number of conservative grassroots organizations were mobilizing. From our June issue.

  Quin Hillyer

Economics

• Obama's Rock Is Not Capitalism

  The Sermon on the Mount comes to our president.

  Brian Wesbury

Capitol Ideas

• Hazardous Times Ahead

  After the Berlin Wall came down I thought the obvious lesson -- that socialism doesn't work -- would penetrate the skulls of our domestic intelligentsia. But somehow it never did.

  Tom Bethell

The Recession Spectator

• A Ladder to Nowhere

  Why WWII-level deficits won't work today.

  Andrew B. Wilson

Presswatch

• Nuance and Nazis

  James Taranto

Politics

• Senator Survivor

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• Rowan Williams Rebounds

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Not Cambridge

  All roads lead to Knoxville -- and beyond.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Irony Without Irony

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• Hart to Hart

  What are the aims of criminal law?

  James Srodes

• Father and Sons

  Christopher Buckley and Richard Brookhiser tell us how they regard William F. Buckley Jr.

  Wlady Pleszczynski

• The Gospel According to Mark Levin

  A review of Mark R. Levin's number one best-seller, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.

  Jeffrey Lord

• Washington and Rome

  Two recent books attempt to explain the relationship between the Vatican and the United States. Each has a different agenda.

  Rev. Michael P. Orsi

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Public Nuisances

• Mencken and Me/Now That We've Won

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• Density Is Destiny

  Liberal White Castles in the sky. From our June issue.

  Philip Klein