IN THE January 26, 2009, ISSUE
Twelve Zeroes
For Britons of a certain age, the defining moment of the pre-Thatcher years came in 1976 when the chancellor of the exchequer, Denis Healey, was forced to go cap in ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
The Shrine of FDR
‘A normal person,” the liberal economist Brad DeLong recently pronounced, “would not argue that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression.” New York Times financial columnist and Newsweek contributing editor ...
Courts vs. Law
At the end of 2008, the number of states allowing physician-assisted suicide grew from one to three. There was, however, a difference in the way the two states’ laws changed. ...
And Global Warming Too!
The last several weeks have seen the emergence of a surprising phenomenon: conservative magazines and websites’ promoting the idea of raising gas taxes. The theory is that if fuel becomes ...
Promises to Keep
The most important domestic-policy crisis this country faces was not discussed by either candidate in the 2008 presidential election. On the Democratic side, that is understandable. Democrats, after all, bear ...
Features
Twelve Zeroes
For Britons of a certain age, the defining moment of the pre-Thatcher years came in 1976 when the chancellor of the exchequer, Denis Healey, was forced to go cap in ...
Greg Craig and the Terrorist
By any standard, the story of Pedro Miguel González is astonishing. The son of a prominent Panamanian politician, González, according to U.S. prosecutors, murdered a United States Army sergeant on ...
A Tyrant’s ‘Liberation’
New Year’s Day marked the 50th anniversary of the Castro regime. The media noted it, Castro’s apologists celebrated it, and survivors on three continents remembered the regime’s victims and its ...
The Man Who Saved AEI
The leaders of Washington’s two most important conservative think tanks meet for lunch about once a year. They aren’t close friends, but Chris DeMuth of the American Enterprise Institute and ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Shelf Life
German journalist Peter Seewald is the author of two very popular book-length interviews with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. His new book, Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait (Ignatius, 260 pp., $24.95), lives ...
Going Great Guns
It’s been half a year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, affirming that the Second Amendment gives individual citizens the right to ...
Sameness and Slumdog
As if to deliver the coup de grâce to a lousy year for movies, shortly after Christmas the New York Times set out to calculate just how padded today’s “blockbuster” ...
Sugar Islands
Where I live the seasons have quarterly distinctness, sharp as a shepherd’s calendar in a medieval book of hours. But as you slide down the flank of the continent, the ...
Where the Buck Stops
Successfully exercising presidential power in national-security affairs is a political and constitutional imperative for American survival. Weak, corrupt, and incompetent Congresses can come and go — and often do — ...
FDR Reconsidered
Some seem to believe Barack Obama is the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Newspaper columns are rife with Obama-FDR comparisons, few of them skeptical. A recent Paul Krugman column ...
Sections
Letters
Loaded History
Kevin D. Williamson repeats a couple of myths in his review of American Rifle: A Biography (“Politics in the Round,” December 15). One is that the colonists fought the British ...
The Week
‐ If Harry Reid is so worried about being embarrassed by new senators, shouldn’t he keep Al Franken out?
‐ With the Fed having done all it safely can to stimulate ...
Housework
One of the advantages of working at home is being able to stay up until all hours and watch the infomercials about the advantages of working at home. I never ...
Transcript: Larry King Live
Transcript: Larry King Live, January 16, 2010
Larry King: Tomorrow night! The whole hour! The cast of Hogan’s Heroes talks about the Holocaust! From Hilversum, Illinois! Hello!
Caller: Hi, Larry. Hi, Mr. Madoff.
Bernard ...
Poetry
ANGLO-SAXON NATURE GNOMES
For frost to freeze, for fire to burn trees,
For earth to hide seeds, for ice to bridge
Water, to walk on bright gleaming mail;
For Almighty God alone to unbind
Fetters ...
Hang On to Your Hats
Do you remember The Matrix? It was big a couple of years ago. I think I quoted it in this very space — something about red pills, blue pills, and ...