NRO Digest: Obama seeks to restore the assumptions and priorities of the Progressive Era

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NRO Digest

July 20, 2012

Today on National Review Online . . .

RICH LOWRY: Chris Christie recognizes the failure of the war on drugs. The Drug War Recedes?

JONAH GOLDBERG:Obama seeks to restore the assumptions and priorities of the Progressive Era. Co-sponsoring Your Success.

THOMAS SOWELL: Obama's preaching about what we owe deflects attention from ever-increasing government control and spending. The 'Giving Back' Distraction.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama sees the ever-growing state as the ultimate expression of the collective. Did the State Make You Great?

LARRY KUDLOW: Why must Obama trash business into recession? Reagan Praised Entrepreneurs Into Recovery.

ALLEN C. GUELZO: Lincoln himself thought the Emancipation Proclamation "the great event of the nineteenth century." Emancipation: The Un-Holiday.

THOMAS S. HIBBS: For an individual, for a civilization, is a fresh start possible? The Dark Knight Rises.

MONA CHAREN: Obama doesn't know the private sector, and he doesn't like it. The Most Business-Despising President in History.

DEROY MURDOCK: Obama's green investments are drowning in red ink. Green Jobs Gone Bust.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Part of the federal bureaucracy has a pre-9/11 mindset. TSA: Training Sky-Bound Illegal Aliens.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Evangelicals and Catholics are suing their government together for their religious liberty. The HHS Mandate: Not an Academic Debate.

INTERVIEW: A much healthier conversation about contraception, with Mary Eberstadt. Pill Buzz Kill.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: President Bush discusses the way democracy and freedom factor into foreign policy and economics. President George W. Bush: Chapter 5.