The American Spectator

June 2011

Note From the Publisher

• William A. Rusher, RIP

  Alfred S. Regnery

Freedom Watch

• Government Spends Too Much Because It Does Too Much

  Just about everyone says spending should be reduced -- but how can we tell if they're serious?

  Gary Johnson

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Features

• Meet the Suburban Parents

  The other obstacle to public school reform.

  Lewis M. Andrews

• A Less Perfect Union

  How the NEA and AFT play Monopoly with your kids.

  Andrew J. Coulson

• The Economics of Settlement

  If not for Jewish settlers, there would be no Palestine and no economic progress for the region's Arab population.

  George Gilder

Constitutional Opinions

• Ganging Up on Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito

  The left used to apply the politics of personal destruction to judicial nominees. Not anymore.

  Curt Levey

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• The Rebirth of Nations

  Europeans are standing up for their national identities at the risk of being labeled "extremists" by the Eurocrats.

  Roger Scruton

With the Tea Partiers

• Two Women of Bucks County

  One of the amazing aspects of the Tea Party movement is how much it is driven by women.

  Ned Ryun

Capitol Ideas

• The Decline of Faith

  It is caused by something more pervasive than non-judgmental liberalism.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• Online Journalism's Golden Age

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• The Power of Le Pen

  Two cheers for Marine Le Pen, the new president of France's National Front party.

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• Redistributor in Chief

  Stephen Moore

Politics

• Rule of Lawlessness

  Is the Age of Obama ushering in an Era of Thuggery by his left-wing supporters?

  John H. Fund

• We're Tackling Trillions Now

  Grover G. Norquist

Spectator's Journal

• Crammed Onto Buses

  Easter in China is when the government makes clear it doesn't like China's house churches.

  David Aikman

High Spirits

• The Dark Side of the Arab Spring

  It has fast become a winter of discontent for Christians and other religious minorities -- even in Iraq.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Deaths in the Family

  Can any drug, any food compare with the feel of a trusting big old dog against your stomach?

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• In Our Bitter World

  As our esteemed editor has pointed out, "the condition of our political discourse" today is worse than "rancorous" or "toxic" -- it's nonexistent.

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• BSU and the Troll in the Basement

  What's the point of trying so hard to get into college?

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Magisterial and Indispensable

  George Washington -- so inscrutable to those around him, yet so revered for his honorable and transparent qualities.

  Jason Emerson

• Persuasively Enduring

   Irving Kristol's intellectual self-confidence was astounding -- and justifiably so.

  Joseph Shattan

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Midnight at the White House

  Joseph Lawler