June 7, 2004 Issue

Dilemma on the Right
By Patrick J. Buchanan
The dilemma of populist conservatism

An Edsel, Not an Empire
By Taki
Like Edsel, like Bush: brilliant presentation followed by total failure

Most Favored Nation
By Scott McConnell
The American establishment goes AWOL.

Fourteen Days: Feith-Based Initiative; Kerry Betrays Benedict Arnold; West Virginia Girls

Deep Background: Restive Republicans; The One That Got Away

For Shame
By Paul W. Schroeder
What becomes of a country that loses its capacity for repulsion?

Whipping Up a Democracy
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Leaving atrocity to amateurs

Come Home, America
By Eugene Gholz, Daryl G. Press, and Harvey M. Sapolsky
The Iraq failure offers an opportunity to rethink American grand strategy.

A Specter Haunts the GOP
By Timothy P. Carney
Bush wades in to save the Republican Party from principle.

Tangled Web
By Jeffrey C. Cleveland
Blogs for beginners

When They Knew
By Paul Sperry
Abuse at Abu Ghraib isn’t news to the Pentagon.

In Search of Rawhide Heroes
By Roger D. McGrath
Remember the real Alamo.

No Cookies for Conservatives
By Marcus Epstein
Affirmative action gets baked.

Your Poor, Your Tired, My Clients
By Paul Moreland
A day in the life of an immigration lawyer

Brad Pitt’s Homer Run
By Steve Sailer
Brad Pitt in “Troy”

Bush’s Six-Pack
By Georgie Anne Geyer
Rise of the Vulcans by James Mann

Keeping an Eye on You
By James Bovard
The Soft Cage by Christian Parenti

Killing Them Softly
By Wayne Merry
Soft Power by Joseph S. Nye

Idol With Clay Feet
By Samuel Francis
The Norman Podhoretz Reader edited by Thomas L. Jeffers