May 2012
Editorial
Barack Romney Wins
Front Lines
Priscilla Buckley, R.I.P.
United States of Wal-Mart
A Game of Drones
Precision-guided mythology masks a brutal truth.
How To Leave Afghanistan
America can’t let India dictate South Asia’s map.
Cover Story
China’s Rise, America’s Fall
Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”?
Articles
Lost in Time
Labor unions almost doomed “Dr. Who”
Bump in the Roadmap
Conservatives question Paul Ryan’s budget blueprint
Lost in Time
Bureaucrats, not Daleks, are the deadliest foes of “Doctor Who.”
Can Democrats Get Realist?
Why the best minds of international power politics are leaving the GOP
Jeff Fortenberry: Crunchy Congressman
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry defied Grover Norquist—here’s why.
Getting Nixon Right
Thomas Mallon’s new novel offers a nuanced, conservative portrait.
Commentary
What Happened to Class?
Debunking Deep Throat
How I Met Eldridge Cleaver
Bill Kauffman reflects on a quarter-century of notable interlocutors
Arts & Letters
The Promise of Polarization
Correcting Kagan
Saved and Depraved
Jews Against Israel
Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism, Jack Ross, Potomac Books, 232 pages
Theodore Roosevelt Builds an Empire
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream, Gregg Jones, New American Library, 430 pages
The Right’s False Prophet
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried, Cambridge University Press, 182 pages
