IN THE April 6, 2009, ISSUE
Democrats and Businessmen, Sitting in a Tree…
Big corporations love free enterprise, as long as it isn’t too free.
Magazine
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Articles
University Aid
It is education bureaucrats, not students, who will profit from the president’s proposals.
Black and White and Dead All Over
The decline of newspapers — and what it portends for conservatives.
Features
Democrats and Businessmen, Sitting in a Tree…
Big corporations love free enterprise, as long as it isn’t too free.
‘The War That Has to Be Won’
But will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?
Books, Arts & Manners
The Truth of Chile
Mark Falcoff surveys the novels of Roberto Ampuero, including Our Olive Green Years.
Shelf Life
According to David Rooney’s new guide to Knox’s works, the book Knox wanted on the desert island was a Bradshaw railway schedule, next to the Bible.
Sections
Old School
Maybe the president can spend enough of our money to halt the degradation of infrastructure. The degradation of citizenship will prove harder to reverse.