IN THE August 5, 2013, ISSUE
The Front Man
Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, ...
Magazine
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Articles
Salon and Breakfast
If you were a distinguished philosopher, economist, political theorist, or literary critic arriving at Heathrow from the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand between, say, 1990 and 2010, there was a ...
Presidential Hopes and Hopefuls
The next Republican presidential nominee is already planning his campaign. If it is not too early for him to think about 2016, why should it be for the rest of ...
Sensitive SEALs
Americans know there’s something special about the SEALs.
Arguably the most skilled and motivated military unit ever created trains to be ready for any possible challenge on land, at sea, or ...
Sharia after Morsi
Only seven months ago, by a landslide two-to-one margin in a free and fair election, Egyptians approved a new sharia constitution proposed by their president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim ...
Features
Treaty by Decree
‘With the exception of the SALT I agreement, every significant arms control agreement during the past three decades has been transmitted to the Senate pursuant to the Treaty Clause of ...
The Anti-Che
Miami, Fla. — Felix Rodriguez seems fated to be linked to Che Guevara. This is not entirely just. Rodriguez loves freedom, and has worked tirelessly for it; Guevara loved tyranny, ...
An Arm and a Leg
In 1994, two eminent Boston hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, merged. Officials hailed it as a new era for integrated, high-quality care. The state’s secretary of ...
The Front Man
Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Prudence and Principle
When I received my copy of The Founding Conservatives and saw that it was published by Sentinel, the conservative imprint at Penguin responsible for such titles as 48 Liberal Lies ...
Law, Naturally
Natural-law theory provides the principal philosophical justification of traditional sexual morality, opposition to abortion, and other paradigmatically conservative views in ethics. Princeton law professor Robert P. George is the most ...
Queen of Hyannis
Rose Kennedy was so often asked for advice on raising children that she risked running out of material. For years, she had held forth about the mealtime quizzes on current ...
The Bard in SoCal
Discussions of movies like Joss Whedon’s new version of Much Ado About Nothing — filmed in his own well-appointed California home, remarkably enough, during a lull in the making of ...
The Iron Lady Rises
It’s March 31, 1982. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a few top advisers are grappling with the grim news that Argentina has invaded the Falkland Islands. First Sea Lord Sir ...
Sections
Letters
Wind Power’s Spotty Record
Rupert Darwall’s excellent article “Free Markets Mean Cheaper Energy” (June 17) had a minor, but salient, error. He correctly noted that Danish electricity spot prices sometimes go ...
The Week
‐ Mike Bloomberg may want to sit down with Bob Filner and explain what ‘stop and frisk’ means.
‐ According to conventional wisdom, the Gang of Eight immigration bill went from ...
A Sinecure for Your Thoughts
In the future, I would like to see every sentence that begins “The public official declined comment” end with the following words: “and was promptly terminated under the Mandatory Comment ...
Memorandum
TO: V. Jarrett
FROM: Staff
IN RE: Your request for upcoming state and local criminal/civil cases that might be of interest
Following Monday’s status meeting, staff researchers and others spent four days searching state, local-court, ...
Poetry
WEAVE OF THE DARK
To conceive of the weave of the dark
is to lift forward the cloth
with a texture of silk, or wool, or nothing,
melting into the air, where the mind
is ...
Cinema ex Machina
Of my two local-ish movie theaters in New Hampshire, one has an irksome habit of always showing the film just a little larger than the screen, so that anything happening ...