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 Vol. 047 Issue 001 (January 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 About This Month: Selfie-Esteem
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski Selfie-Esteem Sometimes the headline is all you need to read: "Those Media Hysterics Who Said Obama's Presidency Was Dead Were Wrong. Again," the New...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. November slides into December, and throughout the land the cognoscenti are asking themselves how President Barack Obama will dispose of the nearly...
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Odds & Ends: Jacobins' Ladder
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Odds & Ends Jacobins' Ladder Thank you for publishing the superb "18th Century Fox" by Helen Rittelmeyer in your November issue. As a scholar of the period, I'm accustomed to seeing essay after...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume eleven...
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The Spectator Interview: The Bizarre and the Jejune
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Neumayr, George
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The Spectator Interview By George Neumayr The Bizarre and the Jejune Tom Wolfe talks about graduate school, Muhammad Ali, and the origins of the New Journalism. At 82, tom wolfe stands as one...
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Ten Paces: The Cambrian Explosion and the Combinatorial Problem
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Meyer, Stephen C.
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Ten Paces Conservatism is not, and has never been, a monolith-no matter how much its opponents pretend otherwise. At times in its history, building unity has been the paramount concern. But this is...
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Ten Paces: Occasionalism Isn't Science
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Derbyshire, John
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Occasionalism Isn't Science By John Derbyshire Why can't the purveyors of intelligent design get a break? They have been plowing their lonely furrow for 20 years now, insisting on their right to a...
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Half Nelson
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Hitchens, Peter
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Half Nelson The birth of a myth. By Peter Hitchens On the saturday following Nelson Mandela's death, the crowds at several British soccer stadiums applauded in his memory for 60 seconds. The...
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Pot Shots!: Part Deux
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Lott, Jeremy
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Pot Shots! By Jeremy Lott Part Deux Dispatches from the new marijuanaland. LYNDEN, Washington Prohibition in America never ends with a bang. Take alcohol, the subject of two constitutional...
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H-1B-Ware
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Antle, W. James III
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H-1B-ware The controversial visa program at the heart of an imaginary immigration consensus. By W. James Antle III If there is one point about immigration above controversy, the cliché goes, it...
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Cuomo's Glass Housing
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Zeiser, Bill
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Cuomo's Glass Housing The New York governor's HUD closet is full of skeletons. By Bill Zeiser Try as I might, I cannot rule out the possibility that the Democratic Party is some sort of elaborate...
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The Nation's Pulse: The Pill Pettifoggery
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Catron, David
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The Nation's Pulse By David Catron The Pill Pettifoggery The contraception mandate will fall-if the Supreme Court behaves rationally. The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted." Those...
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Constitutional Opinions: Fire in the Jungle
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Lipsky, Seth
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Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Fire in the Jungle Which beliefs can we accommodate? One of the most memorable moments of my newspaper life was meeting an American GI named Glenn M....
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Politics: Brave New Moral World
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Murchison, William
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Politics By William Murchison Brave New Moral World On the right, morality and liberty have no choice but to get along. It had to come. And, oh, boy, did it. The new president of the Southern...
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Presswatch: Circular Firing Squad
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Taranto, James
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Presswatch By James Taranto Circular Writing Squad Everyone loathes the media, including the media. In late November, as the Obamacare disaster continued to unfold, there was so much blame to go...
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Americana: Avast, Me Hearties! Luncheon Is Served
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Nachman, Gerald
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Americana By Gerald Nachman Avast, Me Hearties! Luncheon Is Served There's still life on the Mississippi. Except for two weeks aboard ship in the Naval Reserve, chipping paint and swabbing...
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The Law & Economy Spectator: An Immodest Proposal
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Buckley, F.H.
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The Law & Economy Spectator By F.H. Buckley An Immodest Proposal Straddling the divide between church and state. In the supreme court, the religious wars continue. This term the Court is asked...
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The Tax & Spend Spectator: The Great Divide
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Norquist, Grover G.
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The Tax & Spend Spectator By Grover G. Norquist The Great Divide If you want your federal taxes reduced you will have to wait until 2017. If you want your state and local taxes reduced, move-now....
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The Hunt: Fox Pas
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Mull, Teresa
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The Hunt By Teresa Mull Fox Pas A report from the Blue Ridge Hunt. The spirit of a too-late Friday night is still coursing through my veins early on the first Saturday of November as I drive...
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High Spirits: None of Our Business?
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Aitken, Jonathan
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High Spirits By Jonathan Aitken None of Our Business? The West cannot be apathetic about the plight of Christians in the Middle East. Why has the Western world, and its churches in particular,...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Defense Is the Ultimate Good
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Ben Stein's Diary By Benjamin J. Stein Defense Is the Ultimate Good Wednesday I drove over to my apartment to get my mail. It is a funny thing about the apartments I have for offices at the...
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Conservative Tastes: Frozen in Ideological Time
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Bowman, James
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Conservative Tastes By James Bowman Frozen in Ideological Time Over the Thanksgiving weekend, members of the self-designated 501st Legion of Star Wars "re-enactors" came to Washington, D.C. to...
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Absolut Prose
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Walther, Matthew
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Books In Review Absolut Prose The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink By Olivia Laing (Canongate, £20, 340 pages) Reviewed by Matthew Walther Here, on the fecund subject of drink, are two...
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Portrait of a Lady
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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Portrait of a Lady Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality By Jonathan Aitken (Bloomsbury, 764 pages, $35) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. In his splendid Nixon: A Life (1993), the book many...
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Red Plate
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Red Plate Special Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing By Anya Von Bremzen (Crown, 338 pages, $26.00) Reviewed by Aram Bakshian, Jr. One of the most popular...
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Seeing Robert
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Sherwood, Lydia
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Seeing Robert Redford in a Dream The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex By Sophie Fontanel (Scribner, 160 pages, $22) Reviewed by Lydia Sherwood When i was handed...
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Queen Mothers of Invention
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Tooley, Mark
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Queen Mothers Of Invention Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World By Daniel Hannan (Broadside, 416 pages, $26.99) Reviewed by Mark Tooley Daniel hannan's...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Liars' Club WASHINGTON It is now apparent that our President has lied to us. He lied when he crooned soothingly about improving the healthcare of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Current Wisdom New York Times David Brooks files his December 2 column and becomes our candidate for the annual Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service By A Private Citizen: In an act of...
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Last Call: A Hopeless 'R'
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Nordlinger, Jay
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Last Call By Jay Nordlinger A Hopeless 'R' Confessions of a partisan. After a conversation about politics, my grandmother and I used to say, "Isn't it terrible how Republican we are? Aren't we...
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