July 31, 2006 Issue

What’s Wrong With the Democrats?
By Steve Sailer
They’ve left middle America behind and can’t pander to one minority without alienating another.

New Deals & Old Answers
By James P. Pinkerton
Can the Democrats recover the ideological energy of William Jennings Bryan or FDR? Not on their current course.

Our Dangerous Times
By James Bovard
In accusing the NYT of treason, the Right displays greater loyalty to the president than to their old principles.

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers
By Sen. Byron L. Dorgan
Low prices come at a high economic cost.

Borrowed Empire
By Paul Craig Roberts
Don’t worry about what currency oil is denominated in—worry about the deficit.

Afghanistan on the Edge
By Stewart Nusbaumer
Why we’re losing hearts and minds in Afghanistan

Mother Russia No More
By Pavel Kohout
State subsidies won’t reverse Russia’s demographic decline.

Hell on Heels
By Steve Sailer
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”

Acoustic Feedback
By R.J. Stove
Performing Music in the Age of Recording by Robert Philip

Absent at the Creation
By James Bowman
The Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson