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Photos of Obama and Romney

Our Age of Anxiety

Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback.

By YUVAL LEVIN

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Scott Walker

High Noon in Wisconsin

Governor Scott Walker hangs tough.

By STEPHEN F. HAYES

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of a woman carrying a bag marked "U. S. Aid"

Birth of a Nation

With American evangelicals on the ground in South Sudan.

By ARMIN ROSEN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Image of a phrenologist's skull

The New Phrenology

How liberal psychopundits understand the conservative brain.

By ANDREW FERGUSON

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Photo of Obama and Clinton in Unity, N.H. in June 2008

Why Not the Best?

By ​WILLIAM KRISTOL

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor

Cronies ’R’ Us

By ANDREW FERGUSON

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Image of a Middle Eastern man with a sign that says "Freedom"

How About Leading from the Front?

By LEE SMITH

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Obama smiling

What Stimulus?

By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Candidate

The Politics of Polarization

Why you won’t see a centrist Third Way this year.

By JEFFREY BELL

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Mitt Romney at the Liberty University commencement

Morality, Not Theology

The importance of Romney’s Liberty University speech.

By MEIR Y. SOLOVEICHIK

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of The Freedmen’s Monument in Washington’s Lincoln Park

Monumental Battles

Why we build memorials.

By DIANA SCHAUB

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of French protesters of the austerity measures

Forgive Us Our Debts?

The war between lenders and borrowers.

By IRWIN M. STELZER

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Dame Maggie Smith

Geezers’ Delight

A fable for the underserved, over-50 crowd.

By JOHN PODHORETZ

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Picture of Joseph Alsop, 1963

Dramatic License

The character in ‘The Columnist’ is not the Joseph Alsop I knew.

By EDWIN M. YODER JR.

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Jean Harlow in a Packard

Big Wheels

The American and his/her car.

By P. J. O’ROURKE

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Rep. Anthony Weiner

Sexual Overload

Sometimes promiscuity is just promiscuity.

By ANN MARLOWE

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

photo of USA Today cover

Indentured Servant?

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of the book cover "Poetry of the Taliban"

Satanic Verse

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Image of Julia

Julia’s America

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of John Edwards

Remember John Kerry’s Running Mate?

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Cartoon of a man looking bored at the opera

The Proustian Solution

Joseph Epstein, concertgoer on the edge of his seat.

By JOSEPH EPSTEIN

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Cartoon of a man pushing a door

My Digital Age

Philip Terzian, stumped.

By PHILIP TERZIAN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Cartoon of a man in a wood shop

Shop Talk

Jonathan V. Last, closet carpenter

By JONATHAN V. LAST

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of Charles Colson

Charles Colson, 1931-2012

Fred Barnes on Charles Colson, 1931-2012.

By FRED BARNES

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Obama’s history—and ours

Obama’s history—and ours

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

A (slightly more) enthusiastic endorsement.

A (slightly more) enthusiastic endorsement.

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Harvard Law Goes Native

Harvard Law Goes Native

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Save the ‘New York Times’ pensioners

Save the ‘New York Times’ pensioners

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32