Articles from National Review (January 26, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is one of the most beloved of English carols.		Brief article	129
"In the most popular governments," wrote John Adams, "elections will generally go in favor of the most ancient families.".		Brief article	154
A tyrant's 'liberation': remembering the fall of Batista, and the 50 years of Cuban misery that have followed.	Reich, Otto		2153
Actress Nicole Kidman has just made a movie about Australia.		Brief article	170
Al Franken pulled 225 votes ahead of Sen. Norman Coleman in the recount of Minnesota's poll, according to the state canvassing board.		Brief article	110
And global warming too! Sorry, a gas tax won't solve all our problems.	Manzi, Jim		1347
Anglo-Saxon Nature Gnomes.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	86
As the economy tightens up, many folks will find themselves going out less and seeking entertainment at home instead.		Brief article	197
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., was in some ways an emblematic figure of the American Century.		Obituary	175
Charlie Rangel has ventured out from his complex of rent-controlled Manhattan apartments just long enough to get himself into another ethical soup, this time by soliciting donations from American International Group.		Brief article	188
Conflagration.			580
Courts vs. law: why you shouldn't want an activist judiciary.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1672
Democrats are intent on cultivating a mythology of torture to discredit George W. Bush's administration, and the latest epistle of their faith is Sen. Carl Levin's misleading and relentlessly partisan report, "Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody.".		Brief article	213
FDR reconsidered.	Adler, Jonathan H.	Book review	1567
Feigning civility is a waste of time.	Thompson, Sylvia	Letter to the editor	223
Further signs of Russia's retreat into authoritarianism came with a December 4 raid on the offices of Memorial in St. Petersburg.		Brief article	160
Get used to it.		Brief article	171
Going great guns.	Verbruggen, Robert	Book review	1709
Greg Craig and the terrorist: the new White House counsel and the ugly case no one wants to talk about.	York, Byron		2648
Helen Suzman was probably the leading anti-apartheid politician among South African whites.		Obituary	101
Housework.	King, Florence		1035
If Harry Reid is so worried about being embarrassed by new senators.		Brief article	18
In March 2007, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed piece called "Obama the 'Magic Negro.'".		Brief article	141
In the 1950s, Cuba was one of the better-off Latin American countries.		Brief article	168
Israel's attacks on Hamas are being widely condemned as "disproportionate" since Israel has inflicted more damage than Hamas has.		Brief article	109
Jerry Brown, California's attorney general, thinks that the voters have approved an unconstitutional constitutional amendment. Last year the state supreme court foisted same-sex marriage on the state.		Brief article	92
John Taylor, former undersecretary of the treasury, is worried about the future of the Fed, and it is fit that he fret.		Brief article	182
Loaded history.	Knapp, Charles	Letter to the editor	139
Obama's invitation to Rick Warren, evangelical megapastor, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration accomplishes several things and seeks to accomplish several others: Thank you.		Brief article	186
Once upon a time, the wire services were pretty good about reporting the facts (and just the facts, ma'am).		Brief article	104
Our congratulations to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Arkansas on the birth of their 18th child the week before Christmas.		Brief article	196
Paul Michael Weyrich is dead at the age of 66. He was one of the conservative movement's great institution builders.		Brief article	122
Practice what you preach.	Houston, Phil	Letter to the editor	105
President Bush spoke about life after January 20: "One thing I don't want to do is stay on the stage.		Brief article	62
President-elect Obama shrewdly sequenced his cabinet appointments.		Brief article	109
Promises to keep: and deficits before we sleep.	Goodman, John C.		1422
Remember all those reports suggesting that Hillary Clinton might have a conflict of interest as secretary of state in dealing with the foreign donors who contributed zillions of dollars to her husband's foundation?		Brief article	267
Sameness and Slumdog.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1061
Samuel P. Huntington was not afraid of controversy.		Brief article	138
Shelf Life.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	469
Sugar Islands.	Broookhiser, Richard	Travel narrative	994
Super-Sized stimulus.	Hassett, Kevin A.		418
The Bernard Madoff scandal raises the question: What exactly is the point of the Securities and Exchange Commission?		Brief article	244
The British are good at tradition, and one of them is that Queen Elizabeth broadcasts to the nation on Christmas Day.		Brief article	136
The Bush administration authorized a $17 billion rescue package for GM and Chrysler.			201
The career of Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish writer/politician, broke into two halves.		Brief article	163
The man who saved AEI: Christopher DeMuth--thinker, strategist, administrator.	Miller, John J.	Biography	2532
The playwright Harold Pinter was widely referred to as "the Shakespeare of our time" and his obituaries certainly treated him as such.		Brief article	122
The recorded conversations of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, soliciting bids for Barack Obama's Senate seat, threatened to embarrass the president-elect. How could Venus have arisen from such a polluted local sea?			160
The shrine of FDR: why the left worships there.	Goldberg, Jonah		2007
The U.S. handed over control of the Green Zone to the Iraqis, in a historic step toward the reestablishment of Iraq as a sovereign independent state.		Brief article	135
Transcript: Larry King Live, January 16, 2010.	Long, Rob	Interview	868
Uneasy lies the head that wears a beauty queen's tinsel tiara.		Brief article	182
Until 2005, the standard biography of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson included an item about how the Kansas City Athletics drafted him as a pitcher.		Brief article	146
Vicki Iseman, the lobbyist whose friendship with Sen. John McCain was the subject of an insinuendo-filled New York Times article last February, has filed suit against the Times for libel.		Brief article	198
Where the buck stops.	Bolton, John R.	Book review	1926
With the Fed having done all it safely can to stimulate the economy--perhaps more than it safely can--Presidentelect Obama is proposing that Congress pass a $1 trillion stimulus.		Brief article	94
You'll notice a new design of NR this issue, part of the long evolution of the magazine's look.			87