The American Spectator

October 2012

Features

• The Deadly Arithmetic of Nuclear Proliferation

  How hard is it to build a bomb? Mr. Biden might want to pay attention.

  John C. Wohlstetter

• Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis

  Meet the hard-core Communist who mentored the future 44th President of the United States.

  Paul Kengor

• A Conservative Defense Agenda

  Reconciling great power responsibilities with economic stagnation.

  Jed Babbin

• A Road to Prosperity

  The case for a modernized gold standard.

  Lewis E. Lehrman

About This Month

• The Quality of Mercy

  Wlady Pleszczynski

In the Colosseum

• Who Built America?

  The rebuilding begins this November.

  Rep. Paul Ryan

Odds & Ends

• There Ain’t No Magic Stash

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  Libertines and other turtles.

The Tax and Spend Spectator

• A Time for Choosing—Really

  Democrats claimed to be delighted that Republicans put their plans in writing. They have it backward.

  Grover G. Norquist

Constitutional Opinions

• Wasting Paul Ryan?

  A constitutional role for the Veep.

  Seth Lipsky

The Law & Economy Spectator

• Rex Quondam, Rex Futurus

  A new constitution for a 21st century empire.

  F.H. Buckley

With the Tea Partiers

• The Real Choice

  Let’s face it: We’re hanging by a thread on the very edge of a cliff.

  Ned Ryun

Capitol Ideas

• Taxes Won’t Save Us

  Chop-logic from Wonderland.

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• Romney’s Education Choice

  Romney’s education proposal would provide sweeping national leadership.

  Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara

Presswatch

• False Balance

  An official interpretation is not a fact.

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• Franglais as She Is Spoke

  “The end of French political power has brought the end of French.”

  Joseph A. Harriss

The Nation's Pulse

• Understating the Budget Crisis

  How do you solve a problem like entitlement?

  James Piereson

High Spirits

• The Games of August

  The Church can learn so much from the Olympics.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• So Much Sadness

  Love among the ruins — from Ben’s monthly print edition Diary.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• The State of Our Nature

  Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint, And knew not eating Death.

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• Whose Rule of Law?

  The global legal standard has far more to do with imposing others’ cultural norms on Americans than with fostering Anglo-Saxon precedents abroad.

  James Srodes

• Hustlers, Hucksters, and the Betrayal of American Education

  The poisonousness of identity studies.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

• A Neighborhood Where History Was Made

  James Srodes on the Dupont Circle progressives who shaped our country and our world.

  Aram Bakshian, Jr.

• The Point of Criticism

  Alternatives to a feel-good but stupefying egalitarianism.

  Micah Mattix

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Mr. Marcus and Me

  Where have the morals of sex workers gone?

  Daniel J. Flynn