The American Spectator

November 2009

Freedom Watch

• No Freedom Left Behind

  Ken Blackwell

Features

• Obama's Vision Through History

  He has exacerbated the interventionist tendencies of his predecessors, ignoring the constitutionalist successes of the exceptional Coolidge and Reagan for not a single good economic reason. Our November cover story.

  Burton Folsom, Jr.

• The Right of Conscience in the Age of Obama

  It can no longer be taken for granted. From our November issue.

  Daniel Allott & Matt Bowman

• Joe Being Joe

  Our vice president is fairly certain his time has not yet come. From our November issue.

  W. James Antle, III

• Obama's Foreign Policy Problems, Personified

  He has seized on the fecklessness of his predecessors and run with it to the far, far left.

  Angelo M. Codevilla

Capitol Ideas

• Michael Ledeen on Iran and Democracy

  An interview.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• ‘Call Fox’

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• When the Party Was Over

  Charles Glass captures some real Americans in Paris -- under Nazi occupation.

  Joseph A. Harriss

Politics

• Losing It

  John H. Fund

The Campaign Spectator

• Tex Mess

  What is Kay Bailey Hutchison up to?

  William Murchison

High Spirits

• Advent Is Coming

  There is an alternative to the boisterous countdown of the weeks leading up to Christmas, and it's called Advent. It starts next Sunday.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Breaking Fast With Bill Safire

  Another monthly installment of Ben Stein's print edition diary.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• An American Tragedy

  A Washington, D.C. audience reacts to Helen Mirren's performance in Racine's Phèdre as if it were watching a sit-com.

  James Bowman

Books in Review

• Feeding the Beast

  Conservative provocateur Bruce Bartlett breaks with conservative orthodoxy -- up to a point.

  Philip Klein

• The Podhoretz Method

  The question Norman Podhoretz has been asked more than any other in his career.

  Seth Lipsky

• Barney and Friends

  David Hogberg

Last Call

• Two Weddings and a Demerol

  Two ex-roommates, two separate nuptials, in two different cities -- all on the same day, which happened to be September 11.

  Jeremy Lott