The American Conservative

[American Raj: liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, Eric Margolis, Key Porter]Averting the ClashBy Leon HadarIT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN. In the same way that the movement against U.S. military intervention...

Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what Burnham meant. For Israel's three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have been, like Israel's...

[FINANCE]The federal government is floating a plan to consolidate troubled assets into a "bad bank." It may have already created one. On Sept. 15, the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, Bank of America announced its rescue of Merrill Lynch. Desperate to...

ALMOST COMPLETELY ignored in the excitement over Barack Obama has been the collapse of the New Left revival that peaked between the Nader campaign of 2000 and the Dean campaign of 2003. For a time, with the antiwar movement burgeoning and a deeply...

When fear of falling prices becomes a self-fulfilling prophecyLET'S BEGIN WITH A LITTLE word association. Here goes: "deflation." Let's see: default, panic, crisis, credit crunch, layoffs, foreclosures, unemployment, recession, depression ... Great Depression.Now...

YouVe got to watch your step in my household. I do, at any rate. On Jan. 20, at about 12:40, I rang my wife at home and asked, "You watching this?" She said that she was."That speech, eh?" I said, preparing for a sneer and a jeer. '"We will roll back...

FILM[Frost/Nixon]Ex-President's Question TimeONE OF THE ODDITIES of the movie business is how films for grown-ups, such as "Frost /Nixon," are now held hostage by that rather adolescent competition, the Academy Awards.If "Frost /Nixon," Ron Howard's...

The popular uprising against central bankingTHE WAY RON PAUL TELLS IT, his more than 30 years of speaking and writing about money, inflation, and the Federal Reserve System attracted only limited interest outside libertarian and constitutionalist circles....

Washington contemplates deploying the Armed Forces for domestic law enforcement.AMERICANS HAVE BECOME SO inured to the sight of federal troops fighting fires, rescuing flood victims from rooftops, and engaging in drug interdiction on the border that...

In the age of Obama, the anti-abortion movement has nowhere left to go.A MONTH BEFORE his death, Fr. Richard Neuhaus said, "Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions...

THE OLD, ORIGINAL, RIGHT realized the horrors of the New Deal and predicted the collectivist road on which it was setting the nation. The Old Right was a coalition of ideologies and forces that did not have one single, common, positive program, but...

The news racket is dead, mummified, and ready for a mausoleum. The joy has gone. Reporters were once a misbegotten tribe of ashen-souled cynics, honest drunks chain-smoking their way to the grave, foul-mouthed, profane, boisterously male, believing...

How inflation turned a rising power into a pauperANYONE NOT ALARMED by the state of the U.S. economy is not paying attention. As our Dear Leader begins his term, the theory of very big government has the support of an alarmingly broad political consensus....

Brother, can you spare a million marks?From wise friends to obscure websites, we'd heard rumors that it exists. But tracking down When Money Dies, the definitive 1975 text on hyperinflation in Weimar Germany, is another matter entirely. Amazon lists...