The American Spectator

March 2010

Features

• Waging Jihad Through the American Courts

  Islamists know how to play the game.

  Daniel Pipes

• Will 2010 Be Another 1994?

  Five surprise developments in 2009 point to a great reversal this fall.

  Grover G. Norquist

• A Fine Texas Wind

  Our nation’s energy giant holds its own in the carbon wars.

  William Murchison

• Party Bashing

  Conservatives turn their fire on the Republican Party. From our new March issue.

  W. James Antle, III

Note From the Publisher

• Constitution Care

  Alfred S. Regnery

Freedom Watch

• Liberty Is Finite

  What’s at stake in the health care fight.

  Ken Cuccinelli

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

On the Prowl

• On the Prowl

The Male Spectator

• Cosmetic Improvements

  Makeup artists on the morning commute.

  Paul Beston

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Climate of Opinion

  Roger Scruton

Capitol Ideas

• Why Are We in Afghanistan?

  At first it was retaliation for 9/11 — but eight and a half years later?

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• You Stay Classy, Sacramento

  The centerpiece of California’s energy policy is really the absence of energy.

  William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott

Presswatch

• Glenn Beck Isn’t Lonesome

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• In Search of Lost Identity

  Would Proust have known what to make of his country’s vanishing identity?

  Joseph A. Harriss

High Spirits

• Forgiveness in Hollywood

  No, it’s not (always) an oxymoron.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Two Days in Washington

  Suddenly last winter — from Ben’s monthly Diary.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Reality Without Rohmer

  Once we expected from art an imitation of something we already knew. 

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Darkness at Noon and Night

  Arthur Koestler’s both a necessary and a troublesome subject for biography.

  Jerry Brennan

• A Founding Paleocon

  Luther Martin was what today we would describe as a “paleoconservative,” a lover of tradition, prescription, and local control.

  Rev. Michael P. Orsi

• There He Blows Again

  A whale of a book by a fine writer about a puny subject — Jimmy Carter — and what passed for his foreign policy.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Henty and Newt

  An unexpected contribution from Newt Gingrich to American lad literature.

  James Srodes

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Public Nuisances

• Public Nuisances

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• The Birth of Vanity

  Tutankhamun really wasn’t as pretty as advertised.

  Shawn Macomber