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IN THE April 19, 2010, ISSUE

The Long War

In the depressing aftermath of Congress’s passage of the Democratic health-care legislation, there has been an understandable temptation among conservatives to think that all their effort over the last year ...

Run for Your Life

By Ross Douthat

Ryan’s Way

By Reihan Salam

Disarmament Danger

By Keith B. Payne

No Margin for Error

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Articles

Politics & Policy

No Margin for Error

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Whom should we blame for the enactment of Obamacare? Philip Klein, writing at The American Spectator’s site, nominates President Bush, for leaving Republicans in such poor shape. Noemie Emery reminds ...

Politics & Policy

You Think It’s Pricey Now?

By Avik Roy

From the moment Democrats introduced health-care legislation last year, Republicans focused on the adverse impact it would have on the federal debt. But what is remarkable about the Patient Protection ...

Politics & Policy

Hardly Healthier

By Duncan Currie

Just before the House of Representatives voted to enact Obamacare, Speaker Nancy Pelosi triumphantly proclaimed, “This legislation will lead to healthier lives.” Democrats and liberal pundits have clung to that ...

Politics & Policy

Calling All Con Artists . . .

By Tevi Troy

Oklahoma senator and medical doctor Tom Coburn often tells the story of Guillermo Denis Gonzalez, a convicted killer who, while out of prison between murders, posed as a supplier of ...

Politics & Policy

Small Is Beautiful

By Jeffrey H. Anderson

If Republicans are going to run on repealing Obamacare, then they’re going to need a persuasive answer to the inevitable question: “And replace it with what?” One good answer can ...

Politics & Policy

Obama’s Waterloo

By Adam Hume

Since Obamacare moved unsteadily over the first finishing line, liberals have been jubilant and conservatives wracked by variations on depression, including existential despair. This is a rare emotion on the ...

Politics & Policy

Disarmament Danger

By Keith B. Payne

The Obama administration has placed nuclear disarmament at the top of its foreign-policy agenda. Other possible goals, such as modernizing U.S. nuclear forces for deterrence purposes, are now considered either ...

Politics & Policy

‘Worst People’

By Jay Nordlinger

Have you ever been called a racist on national television? It’s not the most pleasant experience, I can tell you. Last January, after the State of the Union address, I ...

Features

Politics & Policy

The Long War

By James C. Capretta

Politics & Policy

Ryan’s Way

By Reihan Salam

Almost immediately after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the conversation about health-care reform changed. Advocates of the proposal suddenly hit cautionary notes, insisting that difficult ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Dark Continent

By Claire Berlinski

Many books have now been written about Europe’s malaise, most making similar observations, but Dr. Theodore Dalrymple has two great gifts and an advantage. His gifts are his prose style ...

Politics & Policy

A Republic’s Agony

By Christopher Caldwell

The narrator of Anthony Powell’s novel The Kindly Ones mentions that, as young men, he and his friend Moreland “both had taken a passionate interest in the American Civil War ...

Politics & Policy

The Next America

By Reihan Salam

During the 1980s and 1990s, when many believed that Japan was ascendant and the United States was doomed to become an economic backwater, Joel Kotkin offered a strikingly different thesis. ...

Politics & Policy

The Sins of Moses

By Vincent J. Cannato

Walk around the streets of New York City today, and you will experience one of the great American success stories of the last quarter century. New York, like much of ...

Politics & Policy

Run for Your Life

By Ross Douthat

There are two stories intertwined in Greenberg, Noah Baumbach’s painful, grimly comic portrait of bourgeois dysfunction in Los Angeles. One involves a 40-year-old failure, angry, acerbic, and self-sabotaging, who lurches ...

The Straggler

The Arts of Cheerfulness

By John Derbyshire

Third Thursday of the month, in season, is club night — the meeting, that is, of my gents’ dinner club in New York City. We are a heterogeneous crowd: lawyers, doctors, ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Having It All Kevin A. Hassett recently opined that racial differences in layoff rates between white and black employees probably indicate ongoing discrimination (“Racial Recession,” March 22). I find both his ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ May we now call it “big §#*$%@! government”? ‐ During the eight years of George W. Bush, we heard constantly that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. The moment ...

The Long View

Proposal for Consulting Contract

By Rob Long

TO: Democratic Party November ’12 Stakeholders FROM: MessageMakers™ RE: Midterm Positioning Greetings! We here at MessageMakers™ are excited and enthused about the midterm elections and the wonderful things in store for the Democratic party! What’s ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Donald T. Williams

TOO MANY BIRTHDAYS Curtal Sonnet #17 “What seems to be the trouble, Mr. Williams?” — Physician “Too many birthdays.” — Thomas J. Williams, age 91 The leg-kick that gave leverage to pull The prop and ...

Happy Warrior

. . . Then as Farce

By Mark Steyn

You’ve probably heard of Geert Wilders, the “far right” Dutch politician currently on trial in Amsterdam for offending Islam. But have you heard of Guy Earle? He’s a Canadian stand-up ...

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