NR / Digital on National Review Online

NR / Digital
Home

Table of
Contents

Print
Issue

First
Article

December 15, 2008 VOL. LX, NO. 23

www.nationalreview.com

COVER STORY
Our Deflated Future?
Although inflation has been America’s main economic problem for the entire post-war era, a number of economists think deflation is the biggest threat now. This is a measure of how severe the economic crisis has become in recent months. By John Steele Gordon

ARTICLES

Our Deflated Future? — by John Steele Gordon
Probably not

The Big Three’s Big Three — by Stephen Spruiell
Severance, pensions, and health benefit

Wrong Road — by Samuel R. Staley
On transportation, some folks don’t stop thinking about yesterday

Sarko’s Bite — by Andrew Stuttaford
The French president turns out to be French

Oogedy-Boogedy in Pinstripes — by Kevin D. Williamson
Feel like blaming someone for the market crash?

Washington, P.C. — by John J. Miller
The new Capitol Visitor Center has a shaky grasp of history

Scapegoating the Social Right — by Ramesh Ponnuru
A fact-free distraction

In Search of the Afghan Maliki — by Amir Taheri
The U.S. should focus on its own interests

Go Forward to Gold — by Lewis E. Lehrman
How to lift the reserve-currency curse

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

The Old New Deal — Conrad Black . . . Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H. W. Brands

Left Behind — Claire Berlinski . . . Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, by Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Epic of Finance — Allan Meltzer . . . The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, by Niall Ferguson

Politics in the Round — Kevin D. Williamson . . . American Rifle: A Biography, by Alexander Rose

Film: Under Done — Ross Douthat reviews Australia.

City Life: As Dreams Are Made On — Richard Brookhiser extracts old from new.

SECTIONS
Letters The Week The Bent Pin Help!	The Long View Poetry Happy Warrior
COVER: Daniel Cox/Oxford Scientific/Jupiter

National Review (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by National Review, Inc., at 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. © National Review, Inc., 2008. Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to Editorial Dept., National Review, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Address all subscription mail orders, changes of address, undeliverable copies, etc., to National Review, Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 668, Mount Morris, Ill. 61054-0668; phone, 815-734-1232, Monday–Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. Eastern time. Adjustment requests should be accompanied by a current mailing label or facsimile. Direct classified advertising inquiries to: Classifieds Dept., National Review, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016 or call 212-679-7330. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to National Review, Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 668, Mount Morris, Ill. 61054-0668. Printed in the U.S.A.

RATES: $59.00 a year (24 issues). Add $21.50 for Canada and other foreign subscriptions, per year. (All payments in U.S. currency.) The editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or artwork unless return postage or, better, a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors.