Magazine

IN THE December 31, 2009, ISSUE

Herbert Croly’s American Bismarcks

By Fred Siegel

Herbert Croly believed businessmen were blocking the path to the bright future he envisioned for the specialists of the rising professional classes.

Deep in the Shallows

By Ross Douthat

Articles

Economy & Business

Growth Is Not Enough

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Conservatives need to present a comprehensive economic agenda

Economy & Business

Jobs Up North, Jobs Down Under

By Kevin D. Williamson

Why do Canada and Australia beat the U.S. on employment?

Economy & Business

Evidence-Based Pretense

By Samuel R. Staley

The Obama administration cannot possibly remove ideology from public policy

Energy & Environment

Air Power

By Iain Murray

In which the EPA mistakes itself for Congress.

World

Emperor Van Rompuy

By david price

The European Union is an absolute state in the costume of democracy.

Religion

The True Sprit of Christmas*

By Aloïse Buckley Heath

An NR tradition.

Features

History

Richard Ely’s Golden Calf

By Jonah Goldberg

Richard Ely was, bar none, the most important lay proselytizer of the progressive social gospel.

History

John Dewey and the Philosophical Refounding of America

By Tiffany Jones Miller

The core of Dewey’s progressivism, socialism, or what subsequently became known as liberalism, is freedom understood as spiritual fulfillment.

History

The Curious Constitution of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

By Bradley C. S. Watson

Holmes set forth the essence of progressivism as a legal theory.

History

Herbert Croly’s American Bismarcks

By Fred Siegel

Herbert Croly believed businessmen were blocking the path to the bright future he envisioned for the specialists of the rising professional classes.

Books, Arts & Manners

Books

The Eternal Detective

By Theodore Dalrymple

There is no doubt that this great and good man added enormously to the pleasure and instruction of the human race. Of how many of us can this be said?

Books

‘In the Cause of Happiness’

By Jay Nordlinger

Reading Teachout’s book had the effect of making me love Louis Armstrong all over again.

Books

The Great Beyond

By Joseph Bottum

D’Souza insists that the morality encouraged by belief in cosmic justice and the afterlife is “good for society.”

Magazine

Deep in the Shallows

By Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat reviews Avatar.

Music

The Pipes, The Pipes

By Richard Brookhiser

Scots may be thin on the ground, but they have been intellectually chic for a while now.

Sections

Letters

By NR Editors

A reader takes issue with a chart on stimulus-created jobs.

The Week

By NR Staff

The Copenhagen climate summit devolved into an international farce, an episode of Carbon-Police Squad! as ridiculous as anything directed by David Zucker.