April 2012
Editorial
Occupy Iran?
Front Lines
That Old Romanov Feeling
America loses even if it wins a war with China.
Eastern Europe Turns Right
Nationalist Anthems?
Cover Story
Time-Bomb Diplomacy
Misguided U.S. and Israeli policy brings war with Iran ever closer.
Articles
Save the Dateline
Without foreign correspondents the press is in a world of ignorance.
The Celtic Mind
How Adam Smith and Edmund Burke saved civilization
What’s Wrong With Rights?
Mary Ann Glendon challenges America’s supreme political values.
Embassy to Nowhere
The State Department’s $750 million Baghdad boondoggle
Putin’s Philosophy
The Russian leader’s paradoxical, strong-state “liberal-conservatism”
Weak Tea
Grassroots rebels find fewer targets in this year’s GOP
Why the Right Can’t Win the Gay Marriage Fight
Social conservatives lose to liberal modernity
Commentary
American Comintern
Sex Appeals
Peckinpah Country
I’m on one of my periodic Sam Peckinpah benders. (“You call that …
Israel Encircles Iran
Israel is tightening the noose around Iran. The Israeli government has signed …
Arts & Letters
Wendell Berry: Modern Agrarian
The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry, Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter, eds., ISI Books, 334 pages
Gloomy Gus Goes to College
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away, Eric G. Wilson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 213 pages
Origin of the Specie
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber, Melville House, 534 pages
Netanyahu’s Machine
The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart, Times Books, 276 pages
Europe’s Composer
César Franck: His Life and Times, R.J. Stove, Scarecrow Press, 371 pages
