IN THE May 25, 2009, ISSUE Diagnosis By Regina E. Herzlinger What, precisely, is wrong with the American health-care system?
Health Care Socialized Failure By John C. Goodman Dissecting health-care data from Britain, Canada, and elsewhere
National Security & Defense Torture is a State of Mind By Andrew C. McCarthy Mens rea and the jurisprudence of coercive interrogation.
Health Care Diagnosis By Regina E. Herzlinger What, precisely, is wrong with the American health-care system?
History Is There an American Mind? By Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo challenges the idea of American mindlessness
Books Hinge of History By Ronald Radosh The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, by Michael Kimmage (Harvard, 440 pp., $45)
Film & TV A Strange Voyage By Ross Douthat 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
Country Life Bright Wings By Richard Brookhiser Flying along, between the Catholic church and the PX, was a bald eagle. It was low, unmistakable: white head, white tail, huge
The Week The Week By NR Staff In a recent press conference, a New York Times reporter asked President Obama what had “enchanted” him the most during his first 100 days as president
The Bent Pin Pleasantly Peasantry By Florence King After barely a year of hard times, we have turned into a nation of newly minted pennypinchers
The Long View The Literary Arlen Specter By Rob Long 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 Happy Warrior By Mark Steyn 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