The American Spectator

June 2012

Features

• Heavens to Betsy!

  A severe empiricist reveals his deepest longings.

  John Derbyshire

• The Road to Heaven

  It is full of mystery and foreshadowings.

  Jonathan Aitken

• Heaven Is Overrated

  Earth is where the action is.

  Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

• Heaven: A Symposium

  An Introduction

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• Trying to Be Mr. Right

  Mitt Romney’s quest for conservative acceptance.

  W. James Antle, III

• Mormons and Demons

  Mitt Romney’s religion is the best thing he has going for him.

  Jeremy Lott

About This Month

• Heaven Can’t Wait

  Wlady Pleszczynski

In the Colosseum

• Why I Voted ‘No’ on Ryan

  The GOP needs to make good on its promise for tax reform.

  Rep. Tim Huelskamp

Odds & Ends

• Handicap the Handicapper

Editorial Cartoons

• The Last in Line

  “Santorum’s ‘suspension’ of his campaign essentially makes all or most of the remaining primaries between now and June functionally irrelevant…”

  Yogi Love

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Constitutional Opinions

• …And a Young Child Will Lead

  Seth Lipsky

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• P Is for Poison

  As in political correctness, pornography, and plastic, the three great public poisons of our time.

  Roger Scruton

With the Tea Partiers

• Media Trackers Hits Wisconsin

  Preparing the groundwork for June 5, as conservatives no longer have to sit back and take it on the chin.

  Ned Ryun

Eminentoes

• David Cameron, Seriously

  Fraser Nelson

Capitol Ideas

• From ‘Happily Ever After’ to the Fall

  The costs of the women’s movement and the sexual revolution are coming due.

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• Medicaid Freedom of Choice

  Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara

Presswatch

• The Ineffective Greenhouse

  James Taranto

The Nation's Pulse

• In Midst of Poverty, an Educational Oasis

  “Miss Ruby’s” school outside Mobile, Alabama, gives underprivileged kids a chance.

  Quin Hillyer

Politics

• The One Percenters’ Fortress City

  John H. Fund

The Campaign Spectator

• United Faiths of America

  Obama and the secular left are creating an ecumenical right — again.

  Grover G. Norquist

Ben Stein's Diary

• A Case of Intracoastal Blues

  A magazine installment from the world’s leading Diarist.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Laughing on the Wrong Side

  Reminders that human nature doesn’t change.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Rating the Presidents and Their Raters

  Robert W. Merry explores American history “through the prism of presidential performance.”

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Tenured and Powerless

  Who needs professors at the all-administrative university?

  J.P. Freire

• Our Queen

  Andrew Roberts

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Public Nuisances

• I Take the Secret Service Scandal Personally

  Where is its Elmer Washburn?

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• All the Angry Liberals

  The experience of losing does not agree with them.

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• Capital Bound

  A far cry from Fargo, North Dakota.

  Kyle Peterson