The American Spectator

November 2008

Templeton Essays

• Freedom and the Nation-State

  The nation-state is the best insurance for liberty.

  Jeremy Rabkin

Note From the Publisher

• In With the New

  Alfred S. Regnery

Correspondence

• Correspondence

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

On the Prowl

• Bailout Fallout

  The Prowler

Features

• Goodbye to Most of That

  On the road in a changing in America.

  Neal B. Freeman

• Learning from the Bush Legacy

  Conservatives sold their soul to back George W. Bush. Eight years later, can they get it back?

  Philip Klein

In Memoriam

• Pat Rooney, RIP

  John H. Fund

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• The Forbidding of England

  Roger Scruton

Capitol Ideas

• Crediting the Uncreditworthy

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• The War Against the Normal

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• May 1968: Something Happened (But What?)

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• Republicans Spent

  Is the GOP finally an anti-spending party?

  W. James Antle, III

The Campaign Spectator

• When Elections Aren't a Perfect '10'

  Election Night 2000 in Austin

  Quin Hillyer

The Energy Spectator

• Will Exxon Get Googled?

  While emerging energy technologies offer exciting promise, none of them are about to disrupt the oil industry.

  Mark P. Mills

High Spirits

• Godless Capitalism

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Heroes and Traitors

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Culture Benders

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• Let Friedman Reign?

  Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America

  Iain Murray

• Welcome to the Madhouse

  Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture

  Shawn Macomber

• Nixonland Revisited

  Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

  Tom Charles Huston

The Slaughterhouse

• Presidential Material

  J. Peter Freire

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Public Nuisances

• The Democrats' Sham Energy Bill/The Taranto Principle

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Last Call

• Shades of Blue

  The makings of a perfectly cool cat.

  Wlady Pleszczynski