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March 23, 2009 VOL. LXI, NO. 4

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COVER STORY
Prime Minister Obama
Most Americans don’t yet grasp the scale of the Obama project. The naysayers complain, Oh, it’s another Jimmy Carter, or It’s the new New Deal, or It’s LBJ’s Great Society applied to health care. You should be so lucky. It’s all those multiplied a gazillionfold and nuclearized — or Europeanized, which is less dramatic but ultimately more lethal. By Mark Steyn

ARTICLES

The Pride of the Liberals — by Ramesh Ponnuru
‘What don’t you understand? We won.’

Great Society II — by James C. Capretta
With a budget proposal, Obama’s governing philosophy comes fully into view

Negroponte Talks — by Jay Nordlinger
A capable man for a dangerous world

Pumping Up Joe — by Rob Long
When you can’t give your vice president an ice bath . . .

Prime Minister Obama — by Mark Steyn
Will European statism supplant the American Way?

Employee No Choice Act — by Peter Kirsanow
The Democrats, the unions, and the workers they manipulate

Rocky Ride — by Rob Witwer
The Republicans’ fall from power in Colorado -- and how the Democrats hope to replicate it

Standing Athwart History
Half a Century Later

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

A Strong Foundation — David T. Beito and Jonathan Bean examine the life and writings of Booker T. Washington.

Worlds Old And New — Anthony Daniels . . . Last Rites by John Lukacs

Why Do They Fight? — Bing West . . . The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen

The Way We Live Now — Ross Douthat reviews He’s Just Not That Into You.

City Desk: Duty Dance — Richard Brookhiser watches New Yorkers cope with alternate-side parking.

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