January/February 2013
Editorial
Four Conservatisms
Front Lines
Rank Incompetence
Turf wars are the one kind our generals know how to win.
Retaking the Faith-Based Initiative
Compassionate conservatism didn’t fail—it was never tried.
South Korea’s Secret Weakness
Our military aid to Seoul gives Pyongyang its only edge.
Power Without Politics
Reshaping America isn’t all about elections.
Cover Story
Counterculture Conservatism
The right needs less Ayn Rand, more Flannery O’Connor
Articles
Free Kentucky Project
Is the Bluegrass State going libertarian?
Nixon at 100
The Old Man put the GOP on the path to becoming the party of the New Majority.
Crony Copyright
Will Republicans embrace intellectual property reform?
From War to Welfare
How taxes and entitlements begin with militarism
Philosopher of Love
David Schindler has a remedy for the religious right
Friendship’s Garland
For Buckley and Kirk, conservatism was a way of life.
Oliver Stone vs. the Empire
Why he’s as tough on Truman and Obama as Nixon and Bush
Commentary
The Thin White Lie
Capitalism Goes Childless
Drone Doubts at the CIA
A report on the post-Petraeus CIA and jihadist “refugees” in Turkey.
Arts & Letters
Red Europe
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 566 pages
Oakeshott vs. America
Oakeshott on Rome and America, Gene Callahan, Imprint Academic, 250 pages
Two, Three, Many McCarthyisms
Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America, Jay Feldman, Anchor, 416 pages
The Spy Who Bored Me
Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth: A Novel, Doubleday, 304 pages
Conservatism’s Mozart
Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years, Articles From 1974 to 1991, edited by Fran Griffin, FGF Books, 191 pages
What Same-Sex Marriage Means
Debating Same-Sex Marriage, John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher, Oxford University Press, 296 pages
The Well-Tempered Anarchist
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play, James C. Scott, Princeton University Press, 169 pages
