The American Spectator

October 2010

Features

• Nuclear Renaissance Blossoms—Without the USA

  The world is going nuclear while we’re going nowhere. 

  William Tucker

• Is It Time for a Convention?

  Article V of the Constitution is a not-so-secret weapon for opponents of ObamaCare and other federal outrages.

  Philip Klein

• Why Not the Worst?

  Obama Has Surpassed Carter

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

• Can Dino Do It?

  If this isn’t the twice-defeated Dino Rossi’s year in Washington state, it’s because he’s running scarred.

  Jeremy Lott

Note From the Publisher

• Obama’s War

  Afghanistan has little strategic value and the war is one of choice rather than necessity.

  Alfred S. Regnery

Freedom Watch

• It’s Personal

  Pat Toomey

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Borderline Spectator

• No Confidence

  Unionized customs and border patrol agents rebel against the Obama immigration czars.

  W. James Antle, III

The Missile Defense Spectator

• At Sea on an Aegis Destroyer

  John Train

The Pursuit of Knowledge

• Politics as a Profession

  Is America safe from the European disease?

  Roger Scruton

Capitol Ideas

• What’s Up in San Francisco?

  Besides the World Series, in case you were wondering.

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• The Next Leap Forward on the Road to Serfdom

  Grover G. Norquist

Presswatch

• The Klein Clan

  James Taranto

The Nation's Pulse

• California’s Green Nightmare

  So where are all the jobs going green was supposed to create?

  Stephen Moore

• A Big Cheer for Sidney Harman

  William Murchison

Politics

• Absentee Minded

  John H. Fund

High Spirits

• Conrad Black Is Free

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Late Summer Weekend

  Many a perfect day, though service was slow.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• Our Norman Rockwell and Theirs

  More on that tiresome left-wing myth of the right-wing myth of the vanished America.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Faith Without Reason

  A review of Robert Reilly’s The Closing of the Muslim Mind.

  Matthew Kenefick

• The Schlesinger Syndrome, Updated

  Alvin Felzenberg rethinks the presidential rating game.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• Party Animals

  How does the Chinese Communist Party retain its implacable rule over one-fifth of humanity? Richard McGregor explains.

  Joseph A. Harriss

• After the Founding

  Rev. Michael P. Orsi

The Slaughterhouse

• The Smallness of Saul

  A loving look at Barack Obama’s community organizer supreme.

  Matthew Vadum

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Wasilla, USA

  Robert Stacy McCain