IN THE July 20, 2009, ISSUE
Dependence Day
State control of health care will change our political culture, for the worse and forever.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Scapegoats in White Coats
Doctors are not to blame for the high cost of medical services.
Our Common Foe
Obama should support the Iranian people by speaking out against their oppressors.
Sanford’s Seventies Show
The South Carolina governor’s place in the pantheon of political adulterers.
Features
Dependence Day
State control of health care will change our political culture, for the worse and forever.
Books, Arts & Manners
Man, Machine, and Copyright
A review of Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto, by Mark Helprin.
Music: Podium Prodigy
A talk with Lorin Maazel, as the maestro leaves the New York Philharmonic.
Sections
Jacksonian Democracy
Democracy in America seems alarmingly like the zombies in the late Mr. Jackson’s “Thriller” video.