The American Spectator

November 2010

Features

• Ignoring the Tall Man

  The Obama administration’s best economic hope remains Paul Volcker. 

  James Srodes

• Mitch the Knife

  Is America ready for a president who will cut spending? Our November cover story.

  W. James Antle, III

• August in Kabul

  A foreign policy veteran reports on his fact-finding visit to war-torn Afghanistan. 

  William R. Polk

• Justice, Denied

  Lawlessness and corruption in the Obama-Holder Justice Department. From our new November issue.

  Quin Hillyer

Campus Scenes

• Playing the High Card: Arguing From Philosophy

  Abigail Olin

Note From the Publisher

• Ending the Ratchet Racket

  Alfred S. Regnery

Freedom Watch

• Recovery Now

  Michele Bachmann

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

London Calling

• Tony for President

  Outwardly smiling, open, frank, and uncomplicated, he is inwardly complex and unfathomable.

  Paul Johnson

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• The Wilderness Obsession

   The American concern for animal habitats has encouraged a vandalization of the habitats of people.

  Roger Scruton

Capitol Ideas

• The Decline of British Politics

  No Tea Party could ever get off the ground in Britain.

  Tom Bethell

Presswatch

• “Push Back Hard”

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Boon Companions

  The anti-socialist resistance — or finding personal satisfaction in a job well done.

  Joseph A. Harriss

Politics

• Tea Timing Republicans

  The Tea Party is the latest wave of new energy and activism and voters into the Republican Party. 

  Grover G. Norquist

High Spirits

• A Christian Statesman

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• One of Eight Billion

  I cannot countenance raising taxes in the midst of a severe downturn.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Legislating the Art World

  What passes for artistic work these days.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• The Politics of Humanity

  Martha Nussbaum’s unusual argument about opposition to gay rights.

  David L. Tubbs

• South of Eden

  Paul Reyes’s highly personal take on the residential real estate crash in Florida.

  Larry Thornberry

• Soul Provider

  Hilaire Belloc, in all his politically incorrect brilliance.

  Robert R. Reilly

• Witness for the Prosecution

  David Limbaugh attacks with a strength and gusto lacking in much current conservative writing.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

The Slaughterhouse

• Big Girls Don’t Cry

  But who said Meghan McCain’s a big girl?

  Jeremy Lott

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Green Pinstripes

  The makings of a Yankees-Jets fan.

  Philip Klein