IN THE March 8, 2010, ISSUE
An Exceptional Debate
The Obama administration’s assault on American identity.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
The Liberal Reagan?
In 2008, Barack Obama set the cat among the pigeons by likening his presidential candidacy to that of Ronald Reagan.
Mortgage Morality
If American mortgage borrowers act in their own narrow interests, they might yet cause an economic collapse worse than anything we have suffered.
Green Jobs And Rose-Tinted Glasses
In time, green jobs will be looked on as just as ridiculous.
EUbris
From its very beginning, the euro was a project of monstrous bureaucratic arrogance.
An Iranian’s Life
When Khomeini created his Islamic dictatorship in Iran, he also created an Iranian diaspora.
Features
Friedman Aflame
For Friedman everything is connected to everything else, so everything is a metaphor for everything.
Jim Shrugged
The inevitability of China’s rise, the unshakable certainty that it must surpass the United States as the world’s alpha dog, is an article of faith.
Books, Arts & Manners
The Cause of Humanity
Matthew Scully reviews A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement, by Wesley J. Smith.
Revel against the Machine
David Pryce-Jones reviews Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era, by Jean-François Revel.
Gender Gaps
Carol Iannone reviews The Science on Women and Science, edited by Christina Hoff Sommers.
Sections
Zamboni Baloney
It turns out the Vancouver Olympics “electric Zambonis” are not Zambonis at all, but are manufactured by a company called Resurfice.
The Week
The stimulus did create at least one job in the private sector, soon to be filled by Evan Bayh.
Bethesda Mental-Health Clinic
Convened our first group session in which nine of the twelve participants are currently serving in Congress or in the presidential administration.