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August 10, 2009 VOL. LXI, NO. 14

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COVER STORY
The Carrie Effect
Carrie Prejean — a young, beautiful woman who did nothing other than answer a question honestly in a beauty pageant — gave permission to conservative cultural elites to talk about the gay-marriage issue, and so gave ordinary Americans permission to tell pollsters what they really think. By Maggie Gallagher

ARTICLES

Obamanopoly — by Regina E. Herzlinger
In which the government’s tentacles choke health-care consumers

Wrong Big Picture, Dangerous Fine Print — by James C. Capretta & Tevi Troy
But otherwise Obamacare is swell

Romney’s Folly — by Michael F. Cannon
Health-care mandates are a middle-class tax

Not Your Father’s Latin America — by Duncan Currie
Its troubles continue, but the region has made real progress

The Carrie Effect — by Maggie Gallagher
Notes from the frontlines of the Marriage War

What’s Wrong with Cap-and-Trade? — by Stephen Spruiell
Everything

Brainy Bronx Kid against Terror — by Jay Nordlinger
A conversation with Judge Michael B. Mukasey, George W. Bush’s last attorney general

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

The Deepest Roots — Tod Lindberg reviews The Conservatives: Ideas & Personalities Throughout American History, by Patrick Allitt.

Struggle for A Continent — Theodore Dalrymple reviews Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, by Christopher Caldwell.

Your Friend Priscilla — Jay Nordlinger on History Writ Small, a collection of travel pieces by Priscilla L. Buckley.

Film: Here’s the Outrage — Ross Douthat reviews Brüno.

The Straggler: Summertime Blues — John Derbyshire questions the necessity of twelve weeks of juvenile idleness.

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