IN THE September 19, 2011, ISSUE The Department of Sharia By Mark Steyn Islam’s good cop proved cannier than its bad.
Politics & Policy His Father’s Son By Jay Nordlinger Moammar Qaddafi has been rich in sons, in a culture that especially prizes sons. He has seven of them, and one daughter. Some of the sons, it’s true, are nothing ...
Law & the Courts What Constitutionalism Means By Ramesh Ponnuru Not a reluctance to amend the Constitution, but a willingness to follow its rules.
Elections Less-Than-Total Recall By Christian Schneider Wisconsin’s GOP senate withstands a Democratic assault, barely.
National Security & Defense The Innocents Abroad By John R. Bolton Obama’s foreign policy is characterized by naïveté and distaste for America.
Books Translucent Truth By Daniel J. Mahoney A review of Apricot Jam and Other Stories, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Kenneth Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn.
Books God and Man in the Boardroom By Mary Eberstadt A review of The Pope & the CEO: John Paul II’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard, by Andreas Widmer.
Books Reality Shows By Tevi Troy A review of Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy–Nixon to Obama–McCain, by Jim Lehrer.
City Desk Trailer Park By Richard Brookhiser But after the exhortations and the timewasters and before the show come the trailers.
Letters Letters By NR Editors A reader responds to commentary on the National Labor Relations Act and Eric Cantor.
Athwart Postcards from the Continent By James Lileks The vacation is over, and I am fully qualified to make broad, shallow generalizations about Europe.
The Long View From the Archives of the New York Times . . . By Rob Long Why all of the God talk? What do these ‘Founders’ mean with all of these statements?