IN THE March 9, 2009, ISSUE

Governor Girly-Man

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California conservatives greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ascension to the governor’s office in the famous “total recall” election of 2003 with wary optimism. If anyone could make “post-partisanship” work in ever-bluer California, ...

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Articles

Politics & Policy

The Tacky Index

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Every decent American, when he or she is standing at a cash register, having just handed over the Visa card to pay for the pile of groceries or whatever, says ...
Politics & Policy

Lo, a Smart Grid!

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‘We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together,” President Obama promised in his inaugural address. “We will ...
Politics & Policy

Why We Hate Us

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You think you know Hollywood? Sure, you’ve seen your share of movies. You read Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly and sneak a peak at Showbiz Tonight from time to time ...

Features
Politics & Policy

Governor Girly-Man

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California conservatives greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ascension to the governor’s office in the famous “total recall” election of 2003 with wary optimism. If anyone could make “post-partisanship” work in ever-bluer California, ...

Books, Arts & Manners

The Straggler

Chance of a Ghost

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Conservatives, it says here, are happier than liberals. I am looking at this much-discussed study from New York University on “The Palliative Function of Conservative Ideology.” So far as I ...
Politics & Policy

Such a Catholic

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In 1972 Flannery O’Connor was posthumously honored with the National Book Award for her Complete Stories. As her publisher, Robert Giroux, was readying himself to receive this highest of American ...
Politics & Policy

Watts Up

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Fittingly for a book about nuclear energy, William Tucker’s latest work is a bit like uranium: It contains a vast amount of material, packed tightly into a small space, which, ...
Politics & Policy

A Wolfe Tome

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Alan Wolfe of Boston College is a prolific and generally well-regarded author. In the last five years he’s published four books on contemporary politics and public policy: The Transformation of ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

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Living Inspiration Thank you for Jay Nordlinger’s article on Capt. Ivan Castro (“Captain Extraordinary,” February 9). Captain Castro is a tremendously inspiring man. I had the honor of meeting him while ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ One thousand pages of stimulus legislation, a few hours to read it: It’s change you’ll just have to take his word for. ‐ The Democrats have made a number of ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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STARRY NIGHT At the High Museum of Art, Atlanta On Loan from MoMA 29 September 2000 He fought the demons with a tube of paint,           With knife and brush to joust—cut, thrust, and parry.           Each stroke ...
Happy Warrior

Governor Gravid

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The Times of London put it this way: “Arnie Schwarzenegger Joins the Ranks of Girlie Men.”     Quite. As is well known, the Terminator has been unable to terminate anything — ...
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