Today on theamericanconservative.com, Michael Brendan Dougherty reacted to the Benghazi and Cairo attacks in the context of the Arab Spring, Wick Allison remembered the 1958 attack on Vice President Nixon in Caracas, and Daniel McCarthy argued that a preoccupation with “worldwide” free speech and speedy revolutions undermines American interests abroad. Meanwhile, Daniel Larison, Rod Dreher, and Scott Galupo lambasted the Romney campaign’s response.

Finally, Anthony Gregory made the conservative case against the drug war, Dreher contrasted the success of the Tea Party with the failure of Occupy, and Kelley Vlahos chastised a new report on the TSA for pulling punches on privacy.