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April 20, 2009 ISSUE

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Cover

President of Everything 
Brian Doherty
Obama pays lip service to executive restraint, but his expansion of government power would put Bush to shame.

Columns

Depression Factory   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Unsafe at Any Speed   
Daniel Larison

The Republic Strikes Back 
Bill Kauffman

Fourteen Days   
All the World’s a State; North Korea’s Missile—Emphasis on Miss; White House Scientist Says Pollution May Save Environment

Deep Background   
Afghan Exit Strategy?; Why bin Laden Fears Death From Above

Articles

The Rainbow Over 
Peter Hitchens
South Africa never became a post-racial Utopia. Will it turn into another Zimbabwe under ANC Big Man Jacob Zuma?

Neoconned Again 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Foreign Policy Initiative is the latest front for the crowd that brought us the Iraq War.

Too Small to Fail 
Dermot Quinn
Wilhelm Roepke saw value in human-scaled economics.

Peace Out 
Justin Raimondo
Was the Left antiwar or just anti-Bush?

Keynesian Cons 
Sheldon Richman
Supply-siders make their peace with John Maynard Keynes.

Vile Bodies 
Reid Buckley
Death of the Fittest

Arts & Letters

Rough in the Diamond   
Steve Sailer
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Sugar”

From George III to George W.   
Andro Linklater
The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy by Frank Prochaska

Rawls at the Crossroads 
Luke Coppen
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith by John Rawls

Writing the Old Right   
Lynn D. Robinson
The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution by Gregory L. Schneider

 

 


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