February 12, 2007 Issue

The Next Conservatism
By Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind
By rejecting ideology and embracing “retroculture,” the Right can recover itself and perhaps reverse America’s decline.

Comment

Future Cons
By James P. Pinkerton
Venerate the past, accommodate the future.

Not Your Father’s Conservatism
By John Derbyshire
Politicized nostalgia won’t resuscitate the Right.

Won By One
By David Franke
Groups won’t go back, but individuals might.

Next Stop: Tehran
By Philip Giraldi
Don’t believe the White House denials. Watch the carrier groups converging in the Persian Gulf.

Terrorists Chip In
By William Norman Grigg
Spychip-enhanced passports make life easier for al-Qaeda and tougher for American travelers.

Making Enemies
By Brendan O’Neill
How Israel helped to create Hamas

Iraq and a Hard Place
By W. James Antle III
Democrats could defund the war—but won’t.

Feeding the Guerillas
By Martin Sieff
The Battle of Baghdad may look less like Algiers than Stalingrad.

Appealing Dissent
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Veterans of the Iraq War make unlikely but effective protesters.