11/24/2008: Vol. 014, # 10

11/17/2008: Vol. 014, # 09

11/3/2008: Vol. 014, # 08

10/27/2008: Vol. 014, # 07

 Issue Date: 11/24/2008 -  Volume 014, Number 10

Cover

China's Gruesome Organ Harvest
The whole world isn't watching. Why not?
by Ethan Gutmann

Editorial

Beyond Doom & Gloom
On the governors, Sarah Palin, and challenges ahead.
by William Kristol

Scrapbook

Archbishop Tutu annoys
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

A Little Something for the GOP?
If only Obama keeps his promises.
by Fred Barnes

Tennis Shoes and Stolen Toilets
Russia's military 'renaissance.'
by Reuben F. Johnson

Biden: the Book
A glimpse into the future.
by Matthew Continetti

Slouching Toward Washington
The lurid foolishness of the Transition.
by Philip Terzian

Saakashvili Takes Paris
A president and an intello walk into a Left-Bank bar...
by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Worldwide Hate Speech Laws?
Muslims and Christians together.
by Nina Shea

Why We Call Them Human Rights
Ecuador just gave every virus, bacterium, insect, tree & weed constitutional rights.
by Wesley J. Smith

Hispanic Panic
Back to square uno para el GOP.
by Duncan Currie

Features

Rising Stars of the GOP
A surprisingly upbeat group at the governors' conference.
by Stephen F. Hayes

Books & Arts

Murder, They Wrote
The art of literary mayhem.
by Jon L. Breen

'Exiles' in Exile
E.H. Carr and the case of the disappearing masterpiece.
by Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Art Under Siege
Underground culture against kultur in the air.
by Edward Short

Capital Idea
How the market economy is to everyone's advantage.
by Michael Taube

Is Ugly Beautiful?
Standing athwart Francis Bacon's reputation, yelling 'Stop!'
by Henrik Bering

The Chinese Wall
It separates reality from wishful thinking in the West.
by Ellen Bork

Bombay and Son
An Anglo-Indian film is Dickensian, in the best sense of the word.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Prizeless
Joseph Epstein, prizeless.
by Joseph Epstein

Parody

Bush and Obama in the Oval Office

 Issue Date: 11/17/2008 -  Volume 014, Number 09

Editorial

President Obama
Now it's our turn to hope.
by William Kristol

Scrapbook

The Courtier Chronicles
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

The Unity Fantasy
The donkey and the elephant are not about to lie down together.
by Andrew Ferguson

Supposing Obama Were a Bipartisan
What then?
by Peter Berkowitz

Put on a Happy Face
The Republican challenge.
by Fred Barnes

The Emerging Majority
It's not Republican.
by Matthew Continetti

The Worst Case Scenario
The economic consequences of hope and change.
by Irwin M. Stelzer

A Guide to Elite Opinion
California's Prop. 8, Alaska's governor, and other abominations.
by Jeffrey Bell

What Happens in Vegas . . .
Is reported here: A McCain campaign postmortem.
by Stephen F. Hayes

Bloomberg's Bombast
New York's mayor buys himself a third term.
by Fred Siegel

Defining Jew-Hatred Down
The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.
by Matthias Küntzel

Features

Apathetics Anonymous
The joy of deciding not to decide who should be the next president of the United States.
by Matt Labash

We Blew It
A look back in remorse on the conservative opportunity that was squandered.
by P.J. O'Rourke

Books & Arts

Sir Vidia's Dance
Can life and art be separated?
by Joseph Bottum

Physical Man
Is science the alternative to philosophy and art?
by Ryan T. Anderson

Listener's Choice
One phonograph, eight records, and all the time in the world.
by John Simon

Natural Poet
Environmental lyrics are more appealing than political verse.
by Eli Lehrer

When It Sizzles
Its Fashion Week in the capital of fashion.
by Pia Catton

Grand Alliance
How Winston and the Welsh Wizard made history.
by David Aikman

The One and Only
Barack Obama won't need special effects to walk on water.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Dean Barnett, 1967-2008

Parody

Rahm Emanuel's Inbox

 Issue Date: 11/3/2008 - 11/10/2008 Volume 014, Number 08

Editorial

McCain Versus the Juggernaut
We stand with him.
by William Kristol

Scrapbook

Speaking in Code
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

To Know Her Is To Respect Her
The great Palin divide.
by Fred Barnes

The Disappearing Issue of Election '08
McCain no longer talks much about national security, alas.
by Stephen F. Hayes

A Dictionary of Political Clichés
Flaubert gets updated for 2008.
by Matthew Continetti

'Clean Hands and a Pure Heart'
The stature of John McCain.
by David Gelernter

How to Woo a Warrior
The National Guard, now showing at the multiplex.
by Justin Shubow

Eight Is Enough
Your election night guide to the swing states McCain needs to win.
by Jeffrey H. Anderson

Features

From Little ACORNs, Big Scandals Grow
Barack Obama: torn between two models of community organizing.
by Charlotte Allen

Evil Under the Sun
Barack Obama and American exceptionalism.
by Noemie Emery

Iceland Melts Down
A subprime borrower defaults in Orlando, and a Pole buys a used car in Reykjavik.
by Jonathan V. Last

Books & Arts

High Victorian Eye
On reading Lord Macaulay's 'Literary Essays'
by Michael Dirda

A Man, A Plan ...
The unintended consequences of giving up the Panama Canal.
by Craig Shirley

Towering Ivories
Stanley Fish and his ideal of the American university.
by Peter Berkowitz

No Dracula He
Books, not blood, nourish a Transylvania tyrant.
by Lawrence Klepp

Gag Me With a Law
What media 'fairness' and 'net neutrality' really mean.
by Christy Hall Robinson

How to Write
Advice from the good old days remains timeless.
by Stefan Beck

Casual

Put to the Test
Andrew Ferguson takes the SAT.
by Andrew Ferguson

Parody

Dear Bill and Fred
A parody.

 Issue Date: 10/27/2008 -  Volume 014, Number 07

Editorial

Here They Come
Democrats gone wild.
by Matthew Continetti

Scrapbook

Shriver vs. Begala? Just You Wait.
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

Sarah Palin's Future
Alaska's most valuable resource.
by Fred Barnes

It Ain't Over Till It's Over
The case against pessimism.
by James Piereson

Loathing Sarah Palin
The Two Months Hate of feminists.
by Joseph Epstein

Are Universities Above the Law?
For the sake of liberal education they shouldn't be.
by Peter Berkowitz

The Doleful State of Liddy's Race
Another red state cliffhanger.
by Mary Katharine Ham

Old Europe, New Europe
Red Europe, blue Europe.
by Seth Cropsey

Is the Era of Big Government Back?
Don't bet on it.
by William J. Stuntz

The Best Are Yet to Come
Obama's retrograde position on skills-based immigration.
by Sahil Mahtani & Pierpaolo Barbieri

Rocky Road
Plenty of obstacles for Colorado's Republicans.
by David Harsanyi

Features

The Last Frontier
In Alaska, the folks are self-reliant and prefer to take care of things themselves. And they like Sarah Palin.
by Charlotte Allen

Class Will Tell
Why is Bill Ayers a respectable member of the upper middle class and Sarah Palin contemptible?
by Sam Schulman

Books & Arts

Transitional Lincoln
The speech that put a frontier lawyer-politician on the road to the White House.
by Yuval Levin

Pale Horse, Pale Writer
Is the author of 'Noon Wine' a classic?
by Brooke Allen

Boyz n the Book
Johnny can read, but won't, and who can blame him?
by Mary Grabar

Show Freaks
A murder mystery in the Theater of Marvels.
by Shawn Macomber

Kitsch in Cabinets
Behind every successful politician stands a collector.
by Andrew Stuttaford

Oliver's Story
Josh Brolin plays Will Ferrell playing George W. Bush.
by John Podhoretz

Casual

Watchers of the Skies
Joseph Bottum revisits Homer.
by Joseph Bottum

Correspondence

Car seats, fashion & more

Parody

Madonna Wants Respect
Not a parody.