The American Spectator

September 2012

Features

• The Wages of Crying ‘Restraint’

  How John Roberts ended up as America’s Big Chief.

  Randy E. Barnett

• Hell No, We Won’t Go!

  Hell No, That’s Our Dough!

  Kyle Peterson

• Cap And Frown

  Today’s university graduates are paying more for less, and cheap credit is partially to blame.

  Daniel Foster

• The Social Security Hangover

  Young people will wake up to intergenerational theft… eventually.

  Matt Purple

• Moral Relativism, R.I.P.

  Virtue and authority are back in fashion, as Bruce Wayne and Harry Potter can attest.

  Helen Rittelmeyer

• Obama’s Hipster Hell

  From economics to health care, the president’s policies hammer young people most of all.

  John McCormack

• Romney, Bain, and Me

  Mitt Romney’s experience with the remarkable supply-sider Bill Bain is reason enough to expect big things from his presidency. From our September issue.

  George Gilder

About This Month

• Signs of Desperation

  Wlady Pleszczynski

Editor's Desk

• Culture Trumps Politics

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

In the Colosseum

• More Medicaid? No Thanks.

  Florida can’t afford Obamacare’s expansion.

  Rick Scott

Odds & Ends

• Mistaken or Messiah?

  TAS Staff

Editorial Cartoons

• The Far Side of the Aisle

  Yogi Love

The Continuing Crisis

• The Continuing Crisis

  R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The Tax and Spend Spectator

• Every Governor a Walker

  Republicans control 24 states. Where are the rest of our Scott Walkers and Bobby Jindals?

  Grover G. Norquist

Constitutional Opinions

• Beer on Tap

  Seth Lipsky

The Law & Economy Spectator

• Liberalism Explained

  F.H. Buckley

With the Tea Partiers

• A Little Less Conversation and a Lot More Action

  Ned Ryun

Eminentoes

• Whatever Happened to Sam Tanenhaus?

  The author of a conservative “autopsy” is mysteriously silent.

  Robert Stacy McCain

Capitol Ideas

• When the Luck Runs Out

  A trip to the hospital has a way of clarifying the problems in our health care.

  Tom Bethell

The Public Policy

• Mediscared Silly

  Seniors will fare better under Paul Ryan’s reforms than they will under Obamacare.

  Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara

Presswatch

• God Save This Voluble Court

  James Taranto

Letter From Paris

• When France Lost Its Crown Jewel

  Fifty years on, it’s still struggling to get over the horror and shame of the Algerian War.

  Joseph A. Harriss

High Spirits

• Advice for Septuagenarians

  Getting one’s 70s right is an intriguing challenge.

  Jonathan Aitken

Ben Stein's Diary

• Obama’s America—and Mine

  In case you missed it — Ben’s Diary from the September issue.

  Ben Stein

Conservative Tastes

• All Is Fakery

  James Bowman

Buy the Book

• The Modest Researcher

  Meet Jim Manzi and the art of randomized field trials.

  Joseph Lawler

• Down and Up From Secularism

  Ross Douthat’s case for traditional Christian faith, in an age of spiritual limits.

  W. James Antle, III

• All the Way with LBJ, Almost: Rolling the Dice

  Robert Caro’s well-received volume on LBJ’s vice-presidency and early presidency opens up an unexpected can of worms.

  John R. Coyne, Jr.

Current Wisdom

• Current Wisdom

  Assorted Jackasses

Last Call

• Heart to Heart to Heart

  Medical mysteries of the old ticker far outpace the metaphorical ones.

  Jeremy Lott