National Review Magazine June 7, 2010, Issue

The Immigration Impasse

By Ramesh Ponnuru

The new Arizona law against illegal immigration has brought to the surface an intraconservative division that has not been in public view since the failure of President Bush’s push for ...

Politics & Policy

Look Before You Leap

By John J. Miller

President Obama wasted little time in denouncing Arizona’s new immigration law. “Now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re ...

Politics & Policy

The problem of illegal immigration is no longer confined to a handful of states and municipalities. Though California still hosts about one-quarter of the nation’s estimated 10.8 million illegal immigrants, ...

Politics & Policy

Back in the Game

By Jay Nordlinger

After the 2006 election, it looked like Robert Ehrlich was finished. He had been governor of Maryland, for one term, and a success, according to traditional measures. On Election Day, ...

Politics & Policy

Disclosed Partisanship

By Bradley A. Smith

In February 1996, then–White House aide and current Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan co-authored a memorandum to deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes regarding whether President Clinton should support proposed ...

Politics & Policy

Spare Not the Stick

By Duncan Currie

In 1993, amid a Cuban economic crisis sparked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, American intelligence officials estimated that there was “a better than even chance that Fidel Castro’s ...

Politics & Policy

Defending Arizona

By Kris W. Kobach

A law that basically makes a few small, carefully considered changes in police procedure, Arizona’s S.B. 1070, has inspired a vastly disproportionate response. Few laws have ever been so grossly ...

Politics & Policy

The Blankest Slate

By Edward Whelan

In announcing his decision to nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, President Obama hailed Kagan’s supposed choice of the Citizens United campaign-finance case as “her very first case to ...

Politics & Policy

Poisoned Chalice

By John O'Sullivan

Politics is the art of the plausible. Only two weeks after the British electorate ushered in the apparent uncertainty of a hung parliament, the Lib-Dem-Con coalition cobbled together from the ...

Politics & Policy

A Bridge to Nowhere

By Fred Siegel

The New Yorker, writes well, he’s reasonably fair-minded in his characterization of well-known events, and he has a talent for painting pen portraits of the lesser-known characters Obama interacts with. ...

Politics & Policy

The Light of Reason

By George Weigel

Melanie Phillips, whose column in the Daily Mail has made her the bête noire of the British Left, has written a feisty polemic against a new world disorder of irrationality ...

Politics & Policy

A Boswell For Rush

By Jay Nordlinger

Zev Chafets has written many books on many subjects, and he has a very juicy subject in Rush Limbaugh. “El Rushbo” has figured hugely in the political culture of this ...

Politics & Policy

A Flawed Cassandra

By Kay S. Hymowitz

He probably didn’t set out to, but James T. Patterson has written a very melancholy book. On the surface, this is a humble history, written without exaggeration or irony, and ...

Politics & Policy

Meanwhile, Back in Sherwood . . .

By Ross Douthat

If you’re going to tamper with a classic story, you’d better have an idea that justifies the reinvention. When Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott were first attached to the movie ...

City Desk

Springtime In The Square

By Richard Brookhiser

When warm weather comes to the country and stays, leaves and insects burst out, as if they had been spring-loaded. One day there are none, the next they are everywhere. ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

It’s Not a Photograph There are two errors on the cover of the May 17 issue. Thomas Jefferson was in France during the creation of the Constitution, and if that’s supposed ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ It took much too long, but Arlen Specter has now been rejected by two parties. ‐ When Specter switched to the Democrats last year, after realizing he would lose a ...

The Long View

DHS DOCUMENT:

By Rob Long

5/3/10 Transcript: Interrogation Room 5 Interrogator #1: Date is May Third. Time is 11:23 p.m. I’m Special Agent Daniels, talking with white female, age . . . what’s your age, dear? Female Suspect: ...

The Bent Pin

The Ego and the I.D.

By Florence King

An “identity crisis” used to be the last word in chic, but now we have surpassed ourselves and developed identity-card crisis, proving once again that you can’t keep a neurotic ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

THE IMAGE In shops, on streets, in random places A light within me lights these faces. I see them glance, and hear, and nod, And each face is a word of God. Briefly and casually ...

Happy Warrior

Goose-Step Dancing

By Mark Steyn

‘It is after considerable contemplation,” began the pop star Elvis Costello, sounding remarkably like Queen Victoria, “that I have lately arrived at the decision that I must withdraw from the ...

June 7, 2010