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January 01, 2010 ISSUE

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Cover

Going South 
Ximena Ortiz
From macho militarism to official corruption, America increasingly resembles a Third World nation. 

Articles

Hope & Fear 
W. James Antle III
Even without a conservative comeback, the Right can stymie Obama’s agenda.

Nuclear Bunkum 
John Mueller
Osama bin Laden’s imaginary Manhattan Project

Bombs Without Borders 
John Laughland
Bernard Kouchner wants to heal the world—at gunpoint.

Spinning Out of Control 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
How the Pentagon sells the American public on foreign wars

How to Become a Trillionaire 
Tom Streithorst
The day the dollar died

Idle Smashing 
Chase Madar
An evening with Christopher Hitchens

Bring Back the Bad Guys 
Jeff Huber
Where have you gone, Saddam?

Blame Business Schools?   
Philip Delves Broughton
What you won’t learn at Harvard Business School

Bad Medicine 
Sheldon Richman
The GOP alternative to socialized medicine is corporatized care.

FIRE in the Hole   
Charles Hugh Smith
Real estate bubble, the sequel

Strange Bird 
Harry Mount
John J. Audubon had an eye for the birds.

Arts & Letters

Black & White & Red All Over 
Bill Steigerwald
The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert McChesney and John Nichols

A Fistful of Dynamite 
Daniel McCarthy
A Bomb in Every Issueby Peter Richardson

What Are Words Worth? 
Peter W. Wood
Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style by Mark Garvey

Vive la Différence   
Piers Paul Read
For the Soul of France by Frederick Brown

Columns

Bitter Fruits of Interventionism   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Confessions of a Chickendove   
Stuart Reid

Unsafe at Any Creed   
Eve Tushnet

Boulder Rocks 
Bill Kauffman

Front Lines   
Snooping on the Troops; Swine Flu Swindle; The Recovery That Isn’t

Deep Background   
Too Many Spies Spoil the Agency; Obama Says Inter-nyet

Old & Right   
Frédéric Bastiat defines government.

 

 


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