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Vol. 036 Issue 003 (June 1 2003)
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The Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTIN SPRING DISROBES INTO SUMMER, and in the Middle East Muslim pietists continue to turn themselves into firecrackers. In late spring they spread their pyrotechnics from Israel to Riyadh,...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FOUNDED 1967 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor SPENCER REISS Managing Editor CHARLES BORK Creative...
Gerry-Rigged Democracy
Fund, John H.
Gerry-Rigged Democracy BY JOHN H. FUND p oliticians say they care about policy, but they prove over and over again that protecting their own jobs and the jobs of their friends takes top priority....
Arigato, Alan-San
Wesbury, Brian S.
Arigato, Alan-San Brian S. Wesbury is chief economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson, a Chicago-based investment bank. JUNE/JULY 2003 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 15 makers from making...
"It's the Bishops' Problem"
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS By Tom Bethell "It's the Bishops' Problem" Recently, Senator Santorum of Pennsylvania reiterated the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. He used a slippery-slope...
"I'd Rather Be a Lamppost in Moscow"
Evanier, David
"I'D RATHER BE A LAMPPOST IN MOSCOW" BYDAVID EVANIER D r. Herbert Aptheker passed away in March at the age of eighty-seven. The New York Times could not restrain its admiration, calling him a...
Getting It in U.S. Courts
Rabkin, Jeremy
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS By Jeremy Rabkin Getting It in U.S. Courts A s Samuel Johnson famously observed, the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind. The prospect of terrorist attacks on...
The Nixon Generation
Whitaker, Albert Keith
THE NIXON GENERATION BY ALBERT KEITH WHITAKER 0 n August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon entered the ornate East Room of the White House to say a final word to his cabinet, senior staff, and...
"Conservatism and Catholicism"
Simboli, Brian
"CONSERVATISM" AND CATHOLICISM BY BRIAN SIMBOLI 1 n college in the early '80s, as I studied the social tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, it was obvious how different this set of beliefs was...
Suicide Bombing 101
Alexander, Edward
bombers (as of this writing) have succeeded in detonating them"' selves—in crowded buses and cafes, in university cafeterias, at a Passover seder, and almost any place where children could be found...
A Talk with Senator John Sununu
Sununu 2 The Spectator Interview/John E. Sununu John Sununu stormed into the U.S. Senate last November, after three terms as representative for New Hampshire's First District and thirty-nine years...
Lord Palmerston's Principle
Babbin3, Jed
Lord Palmerston's Principle Y JED BABBIN As Winston Churchill said, the only one thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them. Over a century, America became used to having its...
A Post-Saddam Symposium
Ledeen; Kirkpatrick; Thatcher; Bartley; Rutledge; Rosett; Lindsey
After the Three-Week War THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD POST SADDAM PIVOT POINT By Michael Ledeen We are living through one of the great potential turning points in history. Can't you sense...
The Last Liberal
Lott, Jeremy
The Last Liberal Michael Kelly has become a writer worth stealing. That's harder than it sounds. BY JEREMY LOTT T he death of Michael Kelly hit the world of journalism like a brick to the gut,...
Africa's Saddam
Isaac, Rael Jean
Africa/ s Saddam CurAld ism* BY RAEL JEAN ISAAC Jacques Chirac has a penchant for bloody dictators. Even as he was running interference for Saddam earlier this year, less remarked, he was also...
The Spy Who Shagged Us
II, William C. Triplett
The Spy Who Shagged Us What happens when the FBI's L.A. woman is also Beijing's girl? From nuclear secrets to Chinagate, the Katrina Leung case is raising hell inside the U.S. intelligence...
Anarchy in Eros
Grossman, Jennifer
Anarchy In Eros Where The Men Went BY JENNIFER GROSSMAN w 4 4 ould You Move In With Your Man?" asks a recent issue of Cosmopolitan. "Monica and Chandler did it on Friends," the editors added...
Moral Lessons of the Genome
Ridley, Matt
Listen to the Genome It's not nature versus nurture anymore. BY MATT RIDLEY Why wrestle with Kant's God, Freedom, and immortally when it is only a matter of time before neuroscience, probably...
Ben Stein's Diary
Stein, Ben
BEN STEIN'S DIARY MONDAY St. Cloud, Minnesota I am here because I am speaking at St. Cloud State University tomorrow. I flew in via a very circuitous route, or maybe I should just say a very long...
The Talkies
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES By James Bowman BREAKING THE CODE Not long ago there appeared on the Turner Classic Movies channel a show called "Complicated Women" which, as Tom Shales of the Washington Post...
The Longest Battle
BLACK, CONRAD
BOOKS IN REVIEW THE LONGEST BATTLE Ending the Vietnam War A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War BY HENRY A. KISSINGER Simon & Schuster/640...
From the Orange Bowl to Washington
Beston, Paul
FROM THE ORANGE BOWL TO WASHINGTON liberals or conservatives." No doubt this is true. But everyone knows that Republicans and Democrats have fundamental differences on values that manifest...
Hail to the Cheat
Natta, Don Van Jr.
Hail to the Cheat! First Off the Tee Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush BY DON VAN NATTA, JR. PublicAffairs/288 pages/526.00 It depends how you define par! Byron...
More Tales of the Big and Tall
Baker, Hunter
MORE TALES OF THE BIG AND TALL Look like Alfred Hitchcock, think like Cary Grant. BY HUNTER BAKER watching Buchanan and Kinsley tangle / t was said of Alfred Hitchcock that his nightly on...
Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
I Kidman You Not —WASHINGTON With regard to the last great persecution of the twentieth century, is it possible that we are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel? The last great...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT THE GREAT BOOKS SERIES Sid Vicious, on what he learned from a Peter Jennings operative: If [Chris] Viasto was an apolitical scandalmonger at ABC News, Dorrance Smith, producer of This...
Last Call
Neumayr, George
LAST CALL By George Neumayr listening to Brigitte Bardot rom the ruins of Old Europe has emerged a new Edward Gibbon: Brigitte Bardot. In her book A Scream in the Silence, the aging sex...
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