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January 12, 2009 ISSUE

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Cover

Where Have All the Neocons Gone? 
Jacob Heilbrunn
Will the crew who brought us the Iraq War stick with the GOP or return to their Democratic roots?

Articles

Bailout Blago 
Justin Raimondo
The Illinois governor isn’t uniquely corrupt—just unusually candid.

McGovern Beats Nixon 
Daniel McCarthy
The South Dakota senator transformed the Right even more dramatically than the Left.

Bad Deal 
Sheldon Richman
Obama should learn the real lesson of FDR’s presidency: more public spending didn’t end the Depression.

Fight of Their Lives 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Obama’s abortion policy puts life on the line.

Burmese Days 
Jim Pittaway
The junta is content to preside over rubble.

Perfect Sowing 
Jeremy Beer
An agrarian aristocrat reaps his last harvest.

News

Fourteen Days   
Stop the Dollar Presses; Madoff Money; Whack the Dog

Old and Right   
John T. Flynn on regimenting the economy, then and now

Deep Background   
Change Turkey Can’t Believe In; Taliban Surges; Where in the World is Ben-Ami Kadish?

Columns

Simple the Best 
Stuart Reid

Spending Our Way to Solvency?   
Patrick J. Buchanan

The Politics of Same   
Fred Reed

Arts & Letters

Through a Glass Darkly   
Steve Sailer
Meryl Street and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”

The Beautiful and the Damned 
Mary Wakefield
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden

Krugman’s Nanny State 
David Gordon
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Forgive Me For Getting Caught   
Peter W. Wood
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America by Susan Wise Bauer

 

 


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