IN THE August 24, 2009, ISSUE Ethiopia Comes to You By Mark Steyn The intersection of the environment and demography continues apace
Health Care Adam Smith for Sick People By Ramesh Ponnuru Conservatives should address the plight of those with preexisting conditions
Health Care Three Strikes By John C. Goodman The Democrats’ health-reform problem begin with the questions Democrats ask
Immigration Catching Up to Mexico By Alex Alexiev Illegal immigration is depleting California’s human capital and ravaging its economy
Politics & Policy Obamaniacs On the Couch By Rob Long If the Self-object fails to socialize the Self’s health-care . . .
Economy & Business The Gambler By Kevin D. Williamson Barney Frank doesn’t know when to hold ’em, or even the name of the game being played
Magazine Sarah Studies By Bradley A. Smith Gubernatorial Candidate Palin can teach the GOP a lot about how to win elections
Natural Law Five Decades of Crisis By Duncan Currie The persistent, alarming link between illegitimacy and poverty
World Pass This Test By Jay Nordlinger The Israel Test, by George Gilder (Richard Vigilante, 296 pp., $27.95)
World President at The Creation By Arthur Herman A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, by Allis and Ronald Radosh (Harper Collins, 428 pp., $27.99)
Magazine American Ajax By Victor Davis Hanson LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay, by Warren Kozak (Regnery, 354 pp., $27.95)
Books Over- and Other Drives By Florence King Driving Like Crazy, by P. J. O’Rourke (Atlantic Monthly, 288 pp., $24)
City Desk Years of Upheaval By Richard Brookhiser Getting a city apartment painted is a trial for several reasons.
Happy Warrior Ethiopia Comes to You By Mark Steyn The intersection of the environment and demography continues apace
Magazine Letters By NR Staff The answer to uncompensated care is to collect from free riders as much as possible, and write off the balance as the price of living in a decent society
Politics & Policy The Week By NR Staff First the president called him stupid, then he had to have a beer with Joe Biden. Hasn’t Officer Crowley been punished enough?
The Bent Pin Unmanning the Ship of State By Florence King And of course, there’s the new criminal raison d’être: “I want to spend more time with my family.”
The Long View From the Henry Louis Gates diaries… By Rob Long “Racists as far as the eye can see.” He nodded sagely. “And God, they’re all so tacky,” I added.