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October 20, 2008 ISSUE

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Street Sweeping 
Eamonn Fingleton
The need for new financial regulation might make conservatives uncomfortable, but it’s not inimical to their tradition.

Fire Sale 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Henry Paulson’s bailout is a $700 billion payback to finance, insurance, and real estate lobbyists.

Crash of the Titans 
John Carney
Up against the Wall

Articles

Head of State 
Jim Pittaway
Is John McCain’s temper a matter of character or something more?

Film Rights 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
At the American Film Renaissance, the Right makes the wrong movies.

The Public’s Choice   
David Gordon
Ignorance is democratic bliss.

Invisible Fist   
Paul Gottfried
Adam Smith’s authoritarian personality

Arts & Letters

A Life of Vice 
Steve Clemons
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman

Sister Act   
Steve Sailer
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”

Men at Arms   
R.J. Stove
The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff

Getting It White   
John Derbyshire
Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander

News

Fourteen Days   
Who’s Getting Rich Off the Bailout?; Not-So-Great Debate; European Disunion

Deep Background   
Al-Qaeda’s Election Strategy

Columns

Mission to MAR’s   
Patrick J. Buchanan
John McCain is not from MAR’s.

Small Tent   
Daniel Larison
From Ron Paul Revolution to Constitutionalist Civil War

Consort of the Onion Queen   
Bill Kauffman
First Man of Elba

 

 


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Flatulent and Crowded with Mental Garbage
By Freddy Gray - November 04, 2009
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Whom Do You (Objectively) Serve?
November 04, 2009 - Comments: 1

The Best Of Both Worlds?
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P.S.
November 04, 2009

On Hiatus
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Reappraising the Right
November 03, 2009

A(ristotle) is A(lbert Jay Nock)
October 29, 2009 - Comments: 2
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No Victory for the "Conservative Movement"
By Jack Ross - November 03, 2009
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Palin is No Nixon
By John Payne - November 03, 2009
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