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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Core Concepts Among the many excellences of Michael Novak’s “The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty” (TAS, June 2007), I would single out his now quite rare...
...Mabuse,” who was the central figure in many great German silent films...
...C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Core Concepts Among the many excellences of Michael Novak’s “The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty” (TAS, June 2007), I would single out his now quite rare recognition that one cannot understand great historical movements without the idea of intellectual history as a necessary conceptual tool, and that lacking such a conceptual tool, one is often left to rely on shoddy habits of thought such as the now immensely popular return to the formerly much scorned “plot theory of history,” as in reliance on terms such as “Cheney,” “Halliburton,” and the like, which can only remind one of the “sinister Dr...
...Bill I could not afford to buy my own copies...
...Bethell seems to have a talent for sniffing out scientific curiosities before they enter the mainstream...
...As an aside, he was the perRead the #1 New York Times bestseller that ignited Now in paperback, Escalations Your articles about Iraq in the June 2007 issue are laced with defeatism and pro-Communism, while holding up Nixon’s throwaway of Vietnam as a pillar of statesmanship and wisdom...
...Novak’s piece may survive the test of wisdom long after the otherwise foolish ways in which this war has been discussed have faded away in memory...
...But with his usual modesty, Mr...
...He is Irish and I’m partItalian...
...He was working on explicating his views up until his death...
...Indeed, I myself also clearly remember that Mr...
...Did Mr...
...Novak gently slips into his discourse the surely core question now confronting the West, which is how to scrub from some 150 million minds, give or take a few tens of millions, the notions of radical Islam...
...or possibly, the senescence of those holding such ideas, the administration was faced with finding a third answer to the dilemma, referred to by Mr...
...www.anncoulter.com An Asssault on Reason In the June 2007 issue of The American Spectator, John H. Fund concludes his “Guru Gore” article with, “Let’s make sure we avoid a future in which Al Gore’s works aren’t required reading on the shelves of all our public schools...
...So he has some bravado...
...victory-in-Iraq-rhetoric in America comes from our domestic liberal press and its stooges the Democrats...
...In any case, Mr...
...I worked for Dr...
...He would give me his copies to read each month after he finished them...
...He has done more for conservative causes than either of you...
...If she or the author knew anything of R.E...
...Also an AudioBook, read by the author...
...a national controversy...
...You and King should start watching O’Reilly...
...Keep up the good work...
...JASON DAVIS Columbus, Ohio ROGER KRUEGER Austin, Texas J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9...
...He mentions Dr...
...I noticed in last month’s Scientific American an article on the curious link between aneuploidy and cancer...
...RICHARD ANDERSON Houston, Texas DONALD NYRE Newport Beach, California William Tucker’s “Report From Baghdad” in the June issue is one of the few sane essays I’ve read on our current predicament...
...Sometimes changing things takes guts...
...Guerrilla warfare never succeeds without propaganda, and The American Spectator’s alignment with an axis of evil may forecast the demise of The American Spectator...
...Ann Coulter’s most important book to date exposes how liberalism has become the nation’s state religion —a godless one...
...HUGH MURRAY Seattle, Washington 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 The Fan Factor I have no intention of renewing my subscription...
...Florence King is Molly Ivins in reverse...
...and the most virulent anti-U.S...
...Those conservatives that continue to hold the view that we can continue on our current course in Iraq are well advised to read this report...
...Lee, she would know that he is a great Southerner and a great American...
...He was the smartest man I ever met...
...As a student going to school on the G.I...
...Novak when he cites President Bush’s formal address and quotes “the need to turn the young people of the Middle East in a new direction...
...How dare you depict Bill O’Reilly on the front of your magazine with the caption “Big Mouth” beside it (“Florence King on Bill O’Reilly,” TAS, April 2007...
...The neocons seem to think that we can win their civil war...
...DEE WOOD Richmond, Virginia Good Work I really enjoyed Tom Bethell’s article in the June 2007 issue (“Einstein’s Revolution, and Counterrevolution...
...He spoke to me of his view that the speed of light was not a constant and that in fact it was influenced by the effect of gravity (the ether...
...An Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group C O R R E S P O N D E N C E son who introduced me to The American Spectator at that time...
...Last year she reviewed favorably a book that insulted the entire South...
...Beckmann at the University of Colorado in 1977 and 1978...
...His ancestors helped found this nation...
...Since the only methods usually available in history have been either fire and sword to an extreme degree, such as in the Allied bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan...
...Eh...
...Wolfowitz made this point clearly the centerpiece of his own theory of the war, though he has been ignorantly maligned as relying only on the idea of WMD as the reason for the war...
...Get a grip...
...O’Reilly has stood for many causes that conservatives stand for, such as judges being removed who consider child-rape and crimes of illegals minor crimes...
...I first heard of this link in an article of his in The American Spectator several years ago...
...Petr Beckmann’s views on Einstein’s theories...
...with a new afterword...
...The Communists have not yet surfaced in Iraq, but we know the previous ruling Ba’ath Party was a front for Communists...
...Fund really mean to write that...
Vol. 40 • July 2007 • No. 6