IN THE October 5, 2009, ISSUE
Costly Lessons
In a typical year over the past generation, the cost of attending college has risen at about double the rate of inflation. Family incomes have not kept pace. And despite ...
Magazine
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Articles
Krugman’s Scapegoats
Hard times demand scapegoats. And demand in the scapegoat market is high right now, with economic malaise lingering after last year’s financial meltdown and bank bailouts. One much-abused scapegoat is ...
Conservative Panel
Five days after the inauguration of Pres. Barack Obama, the San Antonio Express-News announced that it would stop publishing Mallard Fillmore, a conservative comic strip. The newspaper blamed its shrinking ...
Safe-Zone Violation!
It’s an old story, but one that deserves retelling now and then: I’m talking about the injection of politics — partisan politics — into sports columns. And into other areas ...
Civil War
The general consensus was that Rep. Joe Wilson had done something wrong; a consensus including Wilson himself. The nature of his offense, though, caused some confusion. Some people suggested that ...
At What Cost to Freedom?
In his address to Congress, President Obama made clear that he and his allies know how to spend your health-care money better than you do. It’s a matter, you see, ...
Features
Right Turn on Main Street
‘The people! United! Can never be defeated!”
You need a bit of collectivism for street protest, which may be why conservatives have never been much good at it. I don’t mean ...
The Swamps of Jersey
Paramus, N.J. —
Addressing a crowded room at the local Elks Lodge, not far from one of North Jersey’s ubiquitous shopping malls, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie paints a bleak ...
Sherpa Conservatism
If you work the google-machine on the Internet with a modicum of diligence, you’ll uncover a few websites dedicated to an intriguing remedy for all that ails the GOP and ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Film: Riches of Rags
Two movies about Anna Wintour and Vogue have graced theaters in the last four years. First there was The Devil Wears Prada, based on a roman à clef by a ...
Dutch City
I live in a historical anomaly — an American city not founded by Anglos. As you move south and west, you find others — New Orleans, former Spanish missions in ...
The Epic of The Durants
Eighty years after Will and Ariel Durant started writing their history of the world, their finished project appears as quixotic as their dream: It’s hard to imagine two feet of ...
Power Grabs
Early in U.S. history, the Supreme Court made a momentous decision that remains our most important protection from the abuses of criminal law: It rejected a federal common law of ...
Truth without Bullets
Novelists don’t always write about what they know, but when something interesting happens to them, it usually winds up in a book. World War II was the most interesting thing ...
Sections
Letters
Just Say No
In his September 21 review of Ryan Grim’s book This Is Your Country on Drugs, Kyle Smith says the author “makes a largely persuasive case . . . ...
The Week
‐ We watched the videos. Who says ACORN’s against entrepreneurs?
‐ How big was the tea party in Washington on September 12? It was the biggest crowd in the city since ...
Social Studies Project
Glenn Beck Middle School
September 16, 2019
For my Social Studies project, I decided to interview my mom and my grandmom to talk about their experiences and other stuff when they were ...
From Sonnets From The Dark Lady
26.
Misuse makes for its costume gorgeous ghosts
Of garments any critic could revere.
O how I hate them fresh! — the grandiose
And homeliest alike, opaque or sheer,
Both rose and jet. Just those ...
King Ted
I was overseas when Sen. Edward Kennedy died, and a European reporter asked me what my “most vivid memory” of the great man was. I didn’t like to say, because ...