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During the Kosovo War, the U.S. used this Balkan land as a staging ground for its bombing runs. But no sooner did the war end than we abandoned it to the misery and wretched life it's always...

Some Damn Thing in the Balkans (May 1999)

Some Damn Thing in the Balkans 22 May 1999 The American Spectator Until it became an international controversy, Albania had been a terra incognita—a remote labyrinthine confusion of ragged...

Russian Rublette (December 1998)

This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text. December 1998 • The American Spectator This is the background image for an unknown creator of an...

Last Call: Amateur Hour (September 1998)

LAST CALL by Matthew Stevenson Amateur Hour WHEN I MOVED TO EUROPE, I JOINED A COMPANY that each year sponsors a pro-am golf tournament for charitable causes. Since 1991, this grand tour, with...

Cleaning Up After a Dirty War (June 1998)

Cleaning Up After a Dirty War A decade and a half after the fall of its dictatorship, Argentina is increasingly democratic and prosperous— and still haunted by the "disappeared." Matthew...

Spectator's Journal: To Baku and Back (March 1998)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Matthew Stevenson To Baku and Back L ike Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, I recently joined the list of those panning for oil in the murky waters of the Caspian Sea. In...

Last Call: Diplomatic Immunity (September 1997)

LAST CALL by Matthew Stevenson Diplomatic Immunity A S AN AMERICAN RAISING CHILDREN in a Swiss village near Geneva, I often worry about their sentimental education. They go to Swiss schools,...

Spectator's Journal: A Jour with the Tour (August 1997)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Matthew Stevenson A Jour With the Tour E ver since I described Sam Abtthe author of many books about the Tour de France—in an academic journal as the "Marlow of...

Going for the Gold (May 1997)

GOING FOR EGoLD BY MATTHEW STEVENSON WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE, THE AMERICAN PRESS DECIDED THAT THE SWISS HAD HIDDEN NAZI GOLD. AN AMERICAN BANKER SAYS IT'S NOT QUITE THAT SIMPLE. A s...

Fiji: A Second Grenada? (July 1989)

Matthew Stevenson FIJI: A SECOND GRENADA? There's no hiding that the antinuke, neutralist government overthrown in 1987 was playing directly into the hands of the Soviets and their plans for the...

The Playing Fields of Terrorism (August 1987)

Matthew Stevenson THE PLAYING FIELDS OF TERRORISM Welcome to Jordan and the West Bank. T he journey to the frontier between Jordan and Israel began on the runway at the Athens airport, brushed as...

Old South Africa (June 1985)

Matthew Stevenson OLD SOUTH AFRICA Will its example be Brown v. Board of Education or Sherman's march to the sea? Johannesburg could be an American city. The Carlton Centre, one of the better...

South Korean Crossroads (January 1985)

was my knowmg that I had Steve failed to show up for the Jumor SATs. behmd me that helped me to stand up The mistake could have possibly been to Jeff, and that was what made turn catastrophic,...

Traveling the Afghan Archipelago (February 1984)

mind here, and the left-wing contributors to his collection do not much help him. Professor Michael Walzer, who can always be relied upon to defend a radical position as well as it can be...

The State of America's Newspapers (October 1983)

Matthew Stevenson THE STATE OF AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS Going the way of the railroads. In the winter of 1981-82, as part of my job as one of the directors of a newspaper syndicate, I visited the...

Stevn, Mark

Steyn, Mark

Stilgoe, John R.

Stillman, J. Whitney

Stillman, Stanley

Stillman, Whit

Stockdale, Sybil

Stoll, Ira

Stoller, Robert J.

Stone, Robert

Stossel, John

Stove, R J