| NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: High and Outside | 
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| Regnery, Alfred S. | 
| CORRESPONDENCE | 
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| THE CONTINUING CRISIS | 
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| Tyrell, R. Emmett Jr. | 
| The Ten Commandments Mish-Mosh: The Supreme Court finesses the Decalogue | 
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| Presser, Stephen B. | 
| A Republican Country: Did the 2004 U.S. election signal a party realignment | 
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| Wallison, Peter J. | 
| Birds on the Brain: Whether it's ivory-billed Woodpeckers in Arkansas or chilled Penguins in Antarctica, modern man can't take his eyes off birds | 
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| Mehan, G. Tracy III | 
| CAPITOL IDEAS: AIDS in Africa | 
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| Bethell, Tom | 
| POLITICS: Corzine Shots | 
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| Fund, John H. | 
| HIGH SPIRITS: Beijing Bows to Belief | 
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| Aitken, Jonathan | 
| THE MUSICAL SPECTATOR: The Sound of Silence | 
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| Scruton, Roger | 
| COLLEGE AVENUE: Self-Selection or Political Bias? | 
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| Zywicki, Todd | 
| BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Unshared Sacrifice | 
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| Stein, Benjamin J. | 
| THE TALKIES: Feeling Nothing | 
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| Bowman, James | 
| The Forgotten French Resistance | 
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| Nemoianu, Virgil | 
| The Happy Poet | 
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| Lucier, James P. | 
| Can't We Get Along? | 
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| Malenic, Marina | 
| Closing the Gender Gap | 
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| Bersnak, Bracy | 
| How Catholic Saved Civilization | 
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| McCloskey, Rev. C. J. | 
| PUBLIC NUISANCES: Our Jesse/Sharon's Magnanimity | 
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| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | 
| CURRENT WISDOM | 
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| Jackasses, Assorted | 
| LAST CALL: To Miss New Orleans, Forever | 
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| Babbin, Jed |