IN THE January 24, 2011, ISSUE
Operation Rewind
While we like a good party now and again, the fact that House Republicans held no official gala to celebrate their accession to the majority in the new Congress reflects ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
Advantage: Obama
The overhyped political story of the moment is President Obama’s supposed comeback. That story notes that just weeks after his midterm “shellacking” he won congressional approval for a deal on ...
Budget War
The 2010 midterm election was a decisive victory for Republicans. From where they now sit — with a strong majority in the House and a much-improved position in the Senate ...
What the Whigs Knew
Eva Moskowitz is a traditional, down-the-line Democrat in almost every respect. She’s a Jewish New Yorker from a family of FDR liberals. “My grandmother would turn over in her grave ...
Returns the Gulag
How extraordinary, and how ominous, that Russia is still the stage for show trials. This time, the victims are Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev. Once they were ...
Childhood, Interrupted
On August 21 I finished moving in to my first apartment in New York, and stared at my ceiling, and felt what I tried to feel the night after graduation ...
Features
Socialism Is Back
‘Socialism” is a word that has vexed thoughtful conservatives since 2008, along with the related terms “Marxist,” “radical,” and the whole nomenclature of leftish extremism. In his painstakingly documented book ...
Master of the Senate
Mitch McConnell would not smile. The rest of the crowd, full of big-name Democrats and liberal activists, nodded and cracked grins as Vice President Joe Biden quoted Edmund Burke, the ...
Endangered? Specious
Missoula, Mont. — Looking at those walking into the federal courtroom in this university town in western Montana last summer, it was easy to see who was on which side. ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Two Quarts Low
I’ve been blogging at my InstaPundit.com site for going on ten years, and — as with most bloggers of almost any political persuasion — one theme of my blogging has ...
Agents of Influence
In 2007, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Its arguments are by now familiar — actually, they were always familiar: powerful, disloyal Jews; ...
Top Down
The ideology of the American ruling class has done great harm to those classes which do not have the privilege of ruling, and few people are better equipped to analyze ...
Present at the Creation
This story begins in a Tot Lot playground on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Watching her three-year-old son play, author Annie Murphy Paul wonders: “What makes you the way you are?” ...
Film: Out of the Past
They arrive all at once, the year’s serious movies, in a Christmas rush that gluts theaters and dazes critics. After so many fine performances, so many sterling scripts, and so ...
Shovel Ready
One of our township’s very few claims to fame, perhaps the only one, arises from its cesspools. The Wikipedia article headed “cesspool” devotes an entire paragraph to Huntington. In numbers ...
Sections
Letters
Defeats that Weren’t
I would like to thank Mackubin Thomas Owens and James S. Robbins — the former for reviewing This Time We Win (“The Tet Myth,” December 20) and the ...
Federal Health Care Act
Form 17Ai: End of Life/Authorized Life Termination/Difficult Next of Kin Reimbursement Procedures
Federal Guidelines for the Health Care Reform Act–authorized “End of Life Counseling” [ELC] procedures:
ELC sessions are now fully reimbursable ...
Poetry
A C.S. LEWIS BODICE-RIPPER, FROM AFRICA
In making books there is no end,
And little merit. You have read
Of world on world that has no friend,
In volumes equally as dead;
And if I ...
Operation Rewind
While we like a good party now and again, the fact that House Republicans held no official gala to celebrate their accession to the majority in the new Congress reflects ...