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April 6, 2009 VOL. LXI, NO. 5

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COVER STORY
Democrats And Businessmen, Sitting In A Tree . . .
Corporate America is for free markets and competition and pull-yourself-up-by-yourbootstraps individualism, and stands opposed to government intrusions into the marketplace. Right? Wrong. By Jonah Goldberg

ARTICLES

Diplomacy by Bumper Sticker — by John R. Bolton
The Obama administration should reset its Russia policy

University Aid — by John Hood
It is education bureaucrats, not students, who will profit from the president’s proposals

Bush’s India Triumph — by Duncan Currie
An overlooked achievement

Eastern Exposure — by Gordon G. Chang
The economic downturn will be much worse for China than for America

Black and White and Dead All Over — by James V. DeLong
The decline of newspapers -- and what it portends for conservatives

Democrats and Businessmen, Sitting in a Tree . . . — by Jonah Goldberg
Big corporations love free enterprise, as long as it isn’t too free

Media Realism — by Edward W. Gillespie
How the GOP should handle increasingly biased journalists

Out of the Freezer — by Ramesh Ponnuru
At last, some questions on in vitro fertilization

‘The War That Has to Be Won’ — by Bing West
But will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

The Truth of Chile — Mark Falcoff surveys the novels of Roberto Ampuero, including Our Olive Green Years.

Golden Idyll — Meghan Cox Gurdon celebrates The Wind in the Willows.

Music: Take Five — Jay Nordlinger reviews three pianists.

Shelf Life — Michael Potemra reviews The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, by David Rooney

Film: Who Will Watch Them? — Ross Douthat reviews Watchmen.

The Straggler: Shooting Like a Gentleman — John Derbyshire attends his first bird shoot.

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