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March 01, 2010 ISSUE

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His-Panic 
Ron Unz
Don’t believe the hype—the data show that Latino immigrants aren’t necessarily more prone to crime than white Americans.

Articles

Soft Targets 
Mark Ames
America strikes back at the unlikeliest suspects. Next up: Yemen

Rand Paul Revolution 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
The son also rises in the Bluegrass State.

Left Behind 
Murray Polner
Obama’s antiwar admirers discover he’s no peacenik.

Busting the Safety Net 
Charles Hugh Smith
The coming entitlement crash

Goodnight Globe 
Chase Madar
Bedtime for Tom Friedman

Suicide of the West 
Theodore Dalrymple
Will America suffer Europe’s continental drift?

Old World Charm   
R.J. Stove
To Belgium, with love

Best & Brightest 
Jordan Michael Smith
Why Obama should remember George Ball

In From the Cold 
George W. Carey
How the Cold War derailed the Right

Arts & Letters

Mr. Antiwar Republican 
Justin Raimondo
The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft by Russell Kirk and James McClellan

Have a Nice Day—Or Else 
Florence King
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Sinister ’70s 
Brendan O’Neill
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen

Conventional Wisdom, the Sequel   
John Payne
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

An Empire, If You Can Keep It 
Justin Logan
War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State by Sheldon D. Pollack

Columns

Hail Cesar   
Stuart Reid

The God That’s Failing   
Patrick J. Buchanan

U Turn   
Eve Tushnet

Thoughts for Your Penny?   
Bill Kauffman

Front Lines   
Republican Votes, Liberal Victories; Invade Haiti; Counting the Khost

Deep Background   
A Mossad station in every airport

 

 


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