IN THE February 23, 2009, ISSUE
Our Lincoln
The politics of race and blood, and the culture of hedonism, serve inevitably to plant “the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Magazine
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Articles
The Survivor
Should King decide to run for the Senate in 2010, it won’t just be his own hopes — it may well be the hopes of his entire party — that ...
The Anti-Keynes
Given the renaissance in Keynesian thinking, it is fruitful to revisit some of Hayek’s analysis for the light it may shed on our current circumstances.
A Great and Stirring Hour
The main topic of conversation is, of course, the international financial crisis.
Not Our Stars but Ourselves
What causes anorexia nervosa, the terrible mental illness whose victims (mostly young women) starve themselves, sometimes to death?
Features
Our Lincoln
The politics of race and blood, and the culture of hedonism, serve inevitably to plant “the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
At What Cost?
Conservatives should stop trying to remove 12 million illegal aliens from American soil, either by rounding them up or by inducing them to “self-deport.”
Books, Arts & Manners
The Best Conservative Movies
Once in a blue moon, Hollywood releases a conservative movie, or at least a film that resonates with conservatives in a particular way.
Rabbit’s Great Run
Most of Updike’s successful characters were (one gathers) rather like himself: willful but uncertain white Protestant men.
A Small Tent
The question Roger Simon seeks to answer in his unsparing, alternately funny and sad but always fascinating second-thoughts memoir is: Why did he change?
Boring from Within
It’s an unconventional approach to a biopic, and the results are a reminder of where those conventions come from in the first place.
Cellphobjects
This piece was written on a PC, and flown by e-mail to its journalistic nest. But that is the labor of my hands, which takes place at my desk.
Sections
The Classless Society
In one brief shining moment, my mother made me a conservative elitist. Too bad we can’t give her the wool so she could make some more.
The Children’s Crusade
Britain and Europe are becoming more Muslim. The only question is how much more, how fast.