IN THE August 30, 2010, ISSUE The Greatly Ghastly Rand By Jason Lee Steorts In Atlas Shrugged Rand brings forth the barely comprehensible hatred of her derangedly insecure ego.
Law & the Courts Cops, and Robbers By Daniel Foster Everywhere, cash-strapped councils and legislatures in the second year of post-crisis America are struggling to bring outlays in line.
Economy & Business The Many Meanings of ‘Europeanize’ By Duncan Currie Republicans continue to warn that President Obama’s agenda would “Europeanize” the United States. But what does that mean?
Politics & Policy ‘Barack and I’ By Jay Nordlinger Biden might want to rethink ‘Barack,’ if he thought in the first place.
Politics & Policy The Leaner Welfare State By Reihan Salam & Scott Winship The citizen-benefits model would build on American strengths.
Politics & Policy Our Real Gulf Disaster By Lou Dolinar All the misinformation connected to overreaction to the spill may have had a serious influence on President Obama and his advisers.
Politics & Policy The Road to Charikar By J. D. Johannes There are attacks on U.S. forces on the Shomali Plain and in the surrounding valleys, but they pale in contrast to the Soviet experience.
Politics & Policy Eleventh-Hour Counterinsurgency By Bing West The surge has one more year to produce results, and then Obama has promised to begin withdrawing our troops.
Politics & Policy Fatal Conceit By Justin Logan & Christopher Preble Today, support for Barack Obama’s nation-building project in Afghanistan is widespread, even among conservatives.
Books, Arts & Manners A Complicated Rebel By Ronald Radosh Saul Alinsky’s complicated life as the father of community organizing.
Books, Arts & Manners The Greatly Ghastly Rand By Jason Lee Steorts In Atlas Shrugged Rand brings forth the barely comprehensible hatred of her derangedly insecure ego.
Books, Arts & Manners Petronoia By Iain Murray Oil is a gripping book: Its plots are so intertwined that it could have been written as a mystery, albeit one that would be dismissed as unbelievable.
Politics & Policy On Thin Ice By Mario Loyola The book recounts some important successes, but Baker is almost certainly guilty of not giving himself, or the Bush administration, quite enough credit.
Magazine Cancerland By Richard Brookhiser This piece is not about our particular experiences, but about the country itself.
Politics & Policy Letters By NR Staff Readers comment on perspectives on religious freedom in the Muslim world.
The Week The Week By NR Staff President Obama says that the job of plugging BP’s Gulf oil well is ‘just about over.’
The Bent Pin Heap o’ Nothin’ By Florence King We are in the throes of rapid, obligatory cultural change.