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Vol. 047 Issue 006 (July 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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About This Month
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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about this MONTH by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Here Comes Summer I believe in American exceptional-ism with every fiber of my being,” our president told the graduates of West Point on May 28. Not bad for...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
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the CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. As May takes a powder and summer begins, a delightful collection of anthems from the Mussolini era is now available over the Internet under the...
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Odds & Ends
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odds ^ ENDS John Derbyshire’s ambivalence in pursuing the “Ghost in the Machine” puzzle (“Chasing Down the Ghost in the Machine,” TAS June 2014) may be due to the fact that it may forever remain an...
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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 sixteen...
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In the Colosseum
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Martin, David Allen
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in the COLOSSEUM by D AVI D ALLEN MARTIN Man of the People Jimmy Duncan’s quarter century of constituent-minded conservatism. Imagine you’re an incumbent Republican member of Congress in the...
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Ten Paces
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Tucker, Jesse Walker And William
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ten PACES Can we abide the death penalty after Oklahomas botched execution? No Messing With Death by JESSE WALKER The typical conservative is well informed about the careless errors routinely...
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Summer Books and Drinks
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Luminaries, Sundry
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Summer Books Drinks Pour yourself a cool one and savor some tips from our distingushed panel of bookworms. Helen Andrews European history is easily tailored to suit the seasons: France in spring,...
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Teepee Populism
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Stoll, Ira
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Elizabeth Warrens shrewd anti-capitalism has progressives on the war path. by IRA STOLL IFELIZABETH WARREN ENDS UP being the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 2016, don’t be surprised if...
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The Foul Tornado
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Hitchens, Peter
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the foul tornado On the centenary of World War I. by PETER HITCHENS To say that that the First World War was the greatest cataclysm in human history since the fall of the Roman Empire is to put...
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The Dnieper and the Lethe
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Omolesky, Matthew
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The Dnieper and the Lethe Ukraine's geographic destiny. by MATTHEW OMOLESKY The silver thread of the Dnieper stitches a winding seam through the fabric of the Ukrainian steppes, binding together...
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Father's Days
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Nachman, Gerald
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Father’s Days A father and son travel America back when it mattered. by GERALD NACHMAN ONE summer in 1953, seven years before his death, my father and I went on an unlikely coast-to-coast...
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London Calling
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Delingpole, James
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london CALLING by JAMES DELINGPOLE Kipper Time What does UKIP’s victory mean for Britain? A BUNCH OF FRUITCAKES, loonies and closet racists”: this was how Prime Minister David Cameron once...
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The Spectator Interview
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LORD, JEFFREY
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the spectator INTERVIEW A Trump Card The Donald on Paul Ryan, Al Sharpton, and child-rearing. He is one of the world’s most famous businessmen, the founder of the Trump organization’s global...
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Up in Arms
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Blackman, Josh
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up in ARMS by JOSH BLACKMAN Our Gun-Shy Justices The Supreme Court abandons the Second Amendment. After two hundred years of solitude, the Second Amendment now means what it has always said: Our...
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Politics
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS by GROVER G. NORQUIST What GOP ‘Establishment’? Republicans are unified. The Tea Party won. Republicans are poised to capture the Senate this year, and the mainstream press has already...
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Hot and Bothered
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Moore, Stephen
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hot and BOTHERED by STEPHEN MOORE Apocalypse Not Reading Obama's Chicken Little climate change report. Many of my friends on the Left can’t understand why so many people on the Right disregard...
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Constitutional Opinions
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Lipsky, Seth
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constitutional OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Tub to the Whale? Was the Second Amendment intended as a distraction ? Anew assault is underway on the palladium of our liberty, as the Second Amendment is...
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Letter from Paris
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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letterfrom PARIS by JOSEPH A. HARRISS France’s Simmering Intifada The Islamists’ ‘long war goes on, and on. When gendarmes arrested seven Muslim militants in Strasbourg in a predawn sweep last...
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Presswatch
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO Church and State Jill Abramson is tossed from the New York Times. JILL ABRAMSON OVERFLOWED with praise when the New York Times promoted her to its top editorial...
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Capitol Ideas
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Bemell, Tom
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capitol IDEAS by TOM BETHELL My Day at the United Nations A ship that exists for the benefit of its crew. IT was my first visit to the United Nations building, and no doubt my last. Many times I...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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hen steins DI A RY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN More Than We Bargained For Monday Here i am in New York City. The weather is perfect. Last night I had a fine flight up on a tiny little U.S. Air regional...
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Conservative Tastes
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Bowman, James
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conservative TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN Removing the Magic From Mozart Recently, my wife and I attended a performance of Mozart’s Magic Flute— which is what German speakers call a Singspiel opera,...
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The Great Bow Tie View of History
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Stove, R.J.
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arts & LETTERS The Great Bow Tie View of History The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (Random House, 631 pages, $35) Reviewed by RJ....
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Scared Vittleless
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Peterson, Kyle
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Scared Vittleless Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss (Random House, 480 pages, $28) The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson...
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In a Sentimental Mood
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Mahoney, C.W.
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In a Sentimental Mood Louis Armstrong: Master ofModernism By Thomas Brothers (Norton, $39.95, 594 pages) Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington By Terry Teachout (Gotham, $30, 483 pages) Reviewed by...
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Nobody's Fools
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Buckley, F.H.
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Nobody’s Fools The Rule of Nobody: Saving America From Dead Laws and Broken Government By Philip K. Howard (Norton, 256 pages, $23.95) Reviewed by F.H. Buckley The best law book in the last...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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current W I S D O M The Nation In a grisly interview with Mr. Jon Weiner, Miss Sandra Tsing Loh (this is not a typo) discourses on the wonder and sadness of her plumbing: Jon Weiner: This is the...
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Last Call
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Cavanaugh, Tim
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last CALL by TIM CAVANAUGH Bat Guano The release of an obscure photograph in May reopened a bitter controversy. Experts broke down the visual data with Zapruder-film intensity. Some claimed they...
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