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Paid articleNOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Desert Storms
Regnery, Alfred S.
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Desert Storms by Alfred S. Regnery O NE OF THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of the Iraq war is the ascendance of Iran as one of the West’s principal irritants in the...
Paid articleCORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Florence Navasky April’s edition includes yet another liberal offering by Florence King (her review of The Man Who Would Not Shut Up). How can I say such a thing? Well,...
Paid articleTHE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . April is in the can, as they say in the broadcast lingua. This year April distinguished itself by featuring not one April Fool’s Day but many,...
Paid articleON THE PROWL
ON THE PROWL Democrat opposition researchers from the Hillary Clinton and campaigns have been spending inordinate amounts of public records they can find about , a financial backer of...
Paid articleWHY TEHRAN WANTS THE BOMB
BERMAN, ILAN
14 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2007 also be a member of the BY ILAN BERMAN The démarche was emblematic of the tional community since the fall of 2002, when nuclear program. Since then,...
Paid articleREPORT FROM BAGHDAD
Tucker, William
REPORT FROM BAGHDAD Are we destined to remain an occupying force in Iraq for the next ten years—or will President Bush learn from President Nixon? AS I LOOK BACK, I think the quintessential...
Paid articleTHE EBB AND FLOW OF GLOBAL LIBERTY
Novak, Michael
24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2007 S WE APPROACH THE END OF THIS SERIES on the meaning of liberty, three large questions loom before us. In mid-2007, what can we learn from the ironies and...
Paid articleCAPITOL IDEAS: Einstein's Revolution, and Counterrevolution
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS Einstein’s Revolution, and Counterrevolution by Tom Bethell W ITH AN HOUR’S WAIT AT PENN STATION, I picked up a copy of Walter Isaacson’s new Einstein biography,1 turned...
Paid articleCLINTON WATCH: Arkansas Blood Money
Antle, W. James III
CLINTON WATCH Arkansas Blood Money by W. James Antle III W HEN BILL CLINTON TRAVELS TO EUROPE, he normally receives a hero’s welcome. But in Glasgow last May, he was greeted by angry...
Paid articleTHE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The Decline of Laughter
Scruton, Roger
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE The Decline of Laughter by Roger Scruton R EASON SHOWS ITSELF in all our attempts to understand the world and in all our ways of relating to each other. It is...
Paid articlePRESSWATCH: No News Is Good News
Taranto, James
PRESSWATCH No News Is Good News by James Taranto R EUTERS, THE WIRE SERVICE best known for the slogan “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” reported in early April on...
Paid articleFROM THE GUT: Time to Kill
Gutfeld, Greg
FROM THE GUT Time to Kill by Greg Gutfeld L AST APRIL 21 was the White House Correspondents Dinner. No, I wasn’t invited. I rarely get invited to anything. This is not a big problem for me,...
Paid articleLETTER FROM PARIS: "Europe" at 50
Harriss, Joseph A.
LETTER FROM PARIS “Europe” at 50 Are We Having Fun Yet? by Joseph A. Harriss N CASE YOU DIDN’T NOTICE, this spring the European Union, a.k.a. “Europe,” celebrated the 50th anniversary of...
Paid articlePOLITICS: Guru Gore
Fund, John H.
POLITICS Guru Gore by John H. Fund GUESS IT WAS INEVITABLE. The global warming hysteria for which Al Gore is the leading rabble-rouser has now taken on all the trappings of a cultish...
Paid articleTHE NATION'S PULSE: History Under Fire
McCain, Robert Stacy
THE NATION’S PULSE History Under Fire The Revisionists vs. The Rebel by Robert Stacy McCain L EE HIGHWAY IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, is a busy thoroughfare. It is doubtful that any of the...
Paid articleHIGH SPIRITS: The Broken and Crushed
Aitken, Jonathan
HIGH SPIRITS The Broken and Crushed by Jonathan Aitken D URING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY celebrations of the abolition of the slave trade by William Wilberforce and his fellow campaigners, many...
Paid articleBEN STEIN'S DIARY: Great People
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN’S DIARY Great People by Benjamin J. Stein THURSDAY O OPS. NOT A GREAT DAY. I awakened in Scottsdale at the Hyatt Gainey Ranch Hotel. It’s a lovely hotel, but like all Hyatts, a...
Paid articleCONSERVATIVE TASTES: The Liberationist Myth
Bowman, James
CONSERVATIVE TASTES The Liberationist Myth by James Bowman T OO BAD JACK VALENTI WAS TAKEN FROM US so soon after the massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16th had rekindled the debate over...
Paid articleFLORENCE KING: The American Way of Decca Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Sussman, Peter Y.
BOOKS IN REVIEW or eat, all Mitford, who was once disciplined by her AmDecca, was one of the six daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale, a family so dysfunctional that if a Mitford ed...
Paid articleANGELO M. CODEVILLA: Presumption of Authority The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing
Clarke, Stefan Halper and Jonathan
BOOKS IN REVIEW thing unforgivably white. She came out in favor of Clarence Thomas in a This time it was Decca who exploded, concocting the were pleased with the verdict but thought he was...
Paid articleH. W. CROCKER III: The Cross Still Stands Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
Burleigh, Michael
BOOKS IN REVIEW century, individual Americans in large numbers were moving into an empty continent whether anyone liked it or not. There was plenty of discussion about what this should mean....
Paid articleBRIAN S. WESBURY: Abused and Depressed The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Shlaes, Amity
BOOKS IN REVIEW who disparage what they see as an emerging ‘Eurabia’ might bear a thought for the many Europeans who not only dread that prospect but are doing their best to avert it,...
Paid articlePUBLIC NUISANCES: The Hippies' Last Hurrah/ Fear of Fox
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmet t T yrr ell, J r . The Hippies’ Last Hurrah WASHINGTON W HAT IS IT IN THE AIR THIS SPRING that is so familiar? There is a war abroad, and the bien pensants are...
Paid articleCURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM TheNation.com The Anus in the Morning controversy evokes still more tough-guy talk, this time from the callipygian Miss Barbara Ehrenreich—“step outside with me,” indeed:...
Paid articleLAST CALL: Foods Unlimited
Klein, Philip
LAST CALL Foods Unlimited by Philip Klein T HE ROOMMATE GODS WERE UNKIND to me when I studied in London for a semester during college. Danillo, who came from outside Rome, often spoke...
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