July 2012
Editorial
Rule of Happiness
Front Lines
The Tragedy of Stoner Comedy
For Hollywood, marijuana prohibition is a joke.
Unfriendly Fire
How the Taliban mastered the operational art of modern war
How I Made Mitt
Romney owes his only win to English for the Children.
Cover Story
Why Congress Doesn’t Work
Lawmakers’ avoidance of accountability undermines self-government.
Articles
No War for Manila
America risks conflict with China for a feeble ally.
Died on the 4th of July
Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy
Saint Sydney
The Anglican Whig who fought for England’s Catholics
Austerity’s Prophets
How Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek eclipsed J.M. Keynes and Milton Friedman
Neighborhood Watch
If we don’t police the Islamic world, who can?
Kentucky Massiecre
The Bluegrass State extends Ron Paul’s revolution—again.
Commentary
Internet Tapping Gets Harder
Militarism Drives Inflation
Code of Bushido
Stay Out of Syria
Rocky’s Drug War
The continuing toll of Nelson Rockefeller’s prison-industrial complex
Arts & Letters
Recycling Cities
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World, Catherine Tumber, MIT Press, 192 pages
To Save JFK
11/22/63: A Novel, Stephen King, Scribner, 849 pages
The Psychology of Partisanship
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt, Pantheon, 448 pages
Clichés of Tyranny
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, Jonah Goldberg, Sentinel, 320 pages
Gentleman Bruiser
If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement, David B. Frisk, ISI Books, 528 pages
Religious Middle
Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland, Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Press, 488 pages
