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IN THE December 20, 2010, ISSUE

Unbundle the Welfare State

By Jim Manzi

The next step in capitalism’s evolution.

Trust but Terrify

Trust but Terrify

By James Lileks

Hats Checked

Hats Checked

By John Derbyshire

Film: Dancing in the Dark

Film: Dancing in the Dark

By Ross Douthat

Music: There They Go A-Caroling

Music: There They Go A-Caroling

By Jay Nordlinger

Articles

Politics & Policy

The Whip Dude

By Robert Costa

A look at the low-key, high-powered Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

Politics & Policy

Indefensible

By Jamie M. Fly & John Noonan

Cutting the Pentagon’s budget would be foolhardy.

National Security & Defense

Groping Toward Security

By Stewart Baker

How to improve TSA screening.

National Security & Defense

The Glove Will Not Save You

By Rob Long

So let’s get real about airplanes and terrorists.

Features

Economy & Business

Unbundle the Welfare State

By Jim Manzi

The next step in capitalism’s evolution.

World

PIIGS to the Slaughter

By Andrew Stuttaford

The Irish debt crisis portends worse to come.

Economy & Business

‘The Enemy Within’

By Iain Murray & F. Vincent Vernuccio

Public-employee unions are driving us toward insolvency.

Economy & Business

Mr. Lincoln’s Economics Primer

By Allen C. Guelzo

Free men, free soil, free markets.

Books, Arts & Manners

Books

A New Paul Revere

By John Fonte

The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America, by Daniel Hannan.

Books

The Tet Myth

By Mackubin Thomas Owens

This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive, by James S. Robbins.

Books

Broken Dreams

By Kathleen Gabel

South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid, by R. W. Johnson.

Music

Music: There They Go A-Caroling

By Jay Nordlinger

Let’s run through a few Christmas albums, including a new one.

Film & TV

Film: Dancing in the Dark

By Ross Douthat

A review of Black Swan.

Hats Checked

By John Derbyshire

Putting a lid on it.

Sections

Letters

Letters

By NR Editors

Readers react to commentary on socialists and federal government pay.

The Week

The Week

By NR Editors

The experts gave her low marks, yet she attracted plenty of votes because of whose daughter she was. But enough about Lisa Murkowski . . .

From the Twitter Feed of @youthcaptain . . . the Next Leader of North Korea

By Rob Long

Tweeting right now during family therapy.

Poetry

After Reading the Journals of George Fox

By Sarah Ruden

It let the sun through to the wheat…

Athwart

Trust but Terrify

By James Lileks

If you didn’t trust them when they were Commies, you probably don’t trust them now when they’re mobsters.

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