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  • President Obama recognized that America's image in the world was, to say the least, tarnished and made it a principal point of his campaign to insist that he would be able to improve our reputation.(DEEP BACKGROUND)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

    President Obama recognized that America's image in the world was, to say the least, tarnished and made it a principal point of his campaign to insist that he would be able to improve our reputation. He might have started by rooting out all of the neocons who had taken over government-supported Publication: The American Conservative

  • B all U Kan B.(WAR)(Brief article)

    "I face difficulties," admits Shahidullah Ahmadi, an illiterate recruited into the logistics section of the Afghan National Army. "If someone calls me and tells to go somewhere, I can't read the street signs." Ahmadi is not the only one. According to a new report, 90 percent of the Afghan army Publication: The American Conservative

  • Deformed conservatism: David Brooks rebrands the failed philosophy of George W. Bush.(Ideas)

    WRITING A WEEK after the 2008 presidential election, New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to handicap the "fight over the future of conservatism." It would be a battle between "traditionalists," who want to "Cut government, cut taxes, restrict immigration," and "reformers," who agree with an Publication: The American Conservative

  • Mobile homeless: America's professional gypsies.(Culture)

    JIM LINK was paying his way through Texas A&M tending bar. Darker than Kathy Kessler and two inches taller, he was serving drinks on the patio of a student pub. She thought him a goofball and younger than she, though he was seven months older. He thought her distant and dazzling. They married three Publication: The American Conservative

  • An Era about nothing.(BOOKS)(A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001)(Book review)

    [A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001, William O'Neill, Ivan R. Dee, 448 pages] I EXPECTED A BOOK called "America During the Interwar Years" to be about Herbert Hoover and FDR, the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties and the radio as a Publication: The American Conservative

  • The best books you haven't read ...(Recommended readings)

    David Bromwich Two stories by Elizabeth Bowen about wartime London have stayed with me since I read them 25 years ago. "Mysterious Kor" begins with a soldier, Arthur, and his girlfriend, Pepita, walking the streets: "Full moonlight drenched the city and searched it; there was not a niche left to Publication: The American Conservative

  • MEDIA MATTERS.(Forum)(Letter to the editor)

    Kelley Vlahos's article is one of the best I've read about Rand or Ron Paul and the underlying traditional, constitutionalist conservative movement ("Rand Paul Revolution," March 2010). It was well-researched and well-written, with analysis kept as objective as possible. How far this reporting has Publication: The American Conservative

  • Follow the WMD.(Forum)(Letter to the editor)

    The "sexed up" article from Rod Liddle on the Iraq inquiry in Britain is nothing more than conspiracy theory ("While England Sleeps," April 2010). Kick back in your armchair for a moment and meditate on why Bush and Blair would lie the Congress and the Parliament of two of the most wonderful Publication: The American Conservative

  • Cops & robbers.(Front Lines: WAR)(Afghanistan police)(Brief article)

    The only good news about the Afghan police force we're training is that there's no need to worry about them using those shiny new AK-47s to drive out our occupying Army. They aren't good enough shots. Eight years and $6 billion later, "We are at zero," Captain Mohammad Moqim tells Newsweek. "They Publication: The American Conservative

  • Left & right: prospects for peace.(Symposium)(United States policies)

    A YEAR INTO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, American foreign policy has yet to experience the change for which many progressives--and some conservatives--hoped. Even as U.S. forces remain mired in Iraq, the president has committed more troops to Afghanistan and escalated incursions into Pakistan. He Publication: The American Conservative