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IN THE August 16, 2010, ISSUE

The Scourge of Trenton

By Daniel Foster

It was supposed to have been the biggest fight of Chris Christie’s young administration: a May showdown over what Democrats in Trenton were calling the “millionaires’ tax,” designed, like each ...

Do Progressives Dream of Electric Cars?

By Henry Payne

Articles

Politics & Policy

Sheriff McCain

By Robert Costa

As his fellow incumbents drown in a tea-party wave, Sen. John McCain somehow remains afloat. On August 24, McCain squares off against J. D. Hayworth, a former congressman, in Arizona’s ...

Politics & Policy

Black Budget In the Red

By Julian Sanchez

It sounds like a recipe for a conservative crusade: a sector of the government that’s seen 150 percent growth in less than a decade yet is “so massive that its ...

Politics & Policy

Solomonic Wisdom

By Robert P. George & Matthew J. Franck

On June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. ...

Politics & Policy

Do Progressives Dream of Electric Cars?

By Henry Payne

On July 15, Barack Obama came to Holland, Mich., and wrote another chapter in his administration’s Chicago-style, take-no-prisoners political manual. At a groundbreaking ceremony for an auto-components factory, the president ...

Features

Politics & Policy

The Scourge of Trenton

By Daniel Foster

Politics & Policy

A Clash of Opposites

By Jay Nordlinger

Not long ago, two friends were talking about the current election season. Both of them are conservative, but one especially dislikes the McCain-Feingold law (which restricted campaign finance and political ...

Politics & Policy

Status Hiatus

By Michael Knox Beran

No wonder the Curzons (George Nathaniel, KG, First Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India, was one of them) placed Thalia, the muse of comedy, on the parapet of ...

Politics & Policy

Ban the Burqa

By Claire Berlinski

Istanbul – I moved here five years ago. In the beginning, I was sympathetic to the argument that Turkey’s ban on headscarves in universities and public institutions was grossly discriminatory. I spoke ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

The Prize Fighter

By Vincent J. Cannato

‘It’s important to have enemies, because everything depends on the kind of enemies you have,” Norman Podhoretz once told Cynthia Ozick. It is the kind of quote you would expect ...

Politics & Policy

The Drive to Create

By George Gilder

In a castle in Newcastle, complete with reflecting pool, dappled woods nooked with marble sculptures, and pastures lowing with cattle, Matt Ridley, dean of British science writers and author of ...

Politics & Policy

Through A Glass, Darkly

By Andrew Stuttaford

We’ll never know for sure what the English writer William Golding (1911–93), a publicly private man, would have thought about the publication of this book. Thanks partly to Golding’s failure ...

Politics & Policy

. . . As Dreams Are Made On

By Ross Douthat

Christopher Nolan is ill-served by his admirers. In an age starved for movies that straddle the line between middlebrow and highbrow, pop art and the real thing, he’s been hailed ...

The Straggler

On Thy Silver Wheels

By John Derbyshire

The recent political ructions over the extension of unemployment benefits brought Norman Tebbit to my mind. Tebbit was Margaret Thatcher’s secretary of state for employment in the early 1980s. There ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ Congress has an 11 percent job-approval rating. Who knew there were so many trial lawyers? ‐ Midterm elections are generally referenda on the party in power, and that is especially ...

The Long View

Therapist’s Notes

By Rob Long

Patient: Andrew Breitbart First Session: Therapist greets patient, who arrives with three BlackBerrys. Patient is pleasant and good-humored, seems aware of his surroundings, is able to carry on simple transactional conversations. Patient, ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

ADVERTISEMENT FOR “LET’S PRAY” Choreographed by Thandumzi Moyakhe, performed by Nqaba Mafilika and Bathembu Myira, Johannesburg, South Africa They dance there with outrageous zest, Kneeling and swaying without rest, White crosses painted on their chests. Hour after ...

Athwart

Captain Post-America

By James Lileks

You can imagine the fist-pumping and broad grins that went around Hollywood when it was announced they were making a movie about Captain America — and the subsequent dismay when ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Acceptable Risk? In his article “Preferred Risk” (July 5), Iain Murray states that “the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which encourages building in high-risk areas, [exposes] taxpayers to huge liabilities.” I ...

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