The Plank

Pawlenty Courts the NASCAR Vote

... by quoting Talladega Nights at an Iowa GOP fundraiser:

Thank you, Lord, for my red-hot, smokin’ wife.

I know T-Paw is pushing his "regular guy" appeal as he positions himself for 2012, but this seems rather to overshoot the mark. No word on whether he also promised to come at Barack Obama "like a spider monkey."

Reinhold Niebuhr at TNR

The Alternatives to Communism

Is exporting democracy the way to stop totalitarian dictators?

Liberalism: Illusions and Realities

Does Kirk's "Conservative Mind" make any sense?

The Puritan Conscience

The flawed origins of U.S. exceptionalism.

Our Stake in the State of Israel

Will we abandon our one secure bastion in the Middle East?

Liberals and the Marxist Heresy

Grappling with the fellow travelers--and McCarthy.

Vietnam: Study in Ironies

Why America is losing its way in Southeast Asia.

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