IN THE May 25, 2009, ISSUE
Diagnosis
What, precisely, is wrong with the American health-care system?
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Books, Arts & Manners
Hinge of History
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, by Michael Kimmage (Harvard, 440 pp., $45)
A Strange Voyage
His Star Trek is too faithful to count as a reinvention of its source material — but just unfaithful enough to count as a betrayal, and a blunder
Bright Wings
Flying along, between the Catholic church and the PX, was a bald eagle. It was low, unmistakable: white head, white tail, huge
Sections
Pleasantly Peasantry
After barely a year of hard times, we have turned into a nation of newly minted pennypinchers
The Literary Arlen Specter
Switching sides has gotten a pretty bad rap, I agree, but when you really dig down and think, really think, about it all, it’s not really such a bad ...
Happy Warrior
This is the triumph of the Left’s assault on language. As my colleague John Derbyshire put it in another context: Better dead than rude