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Ironies of the Civil War (May 2009)

Summer Books Ironies of the Civil War By Christopher Clausen As Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial fades into the back file of anniversaries, the Civil War Sesquicentennial looms ominously. The...

Ideologies in Flux (November 2007)

WINTER BOOKS Ideologies in Flux By Christopher Clausen LONG BEFORE “neocon” devolved into a term of pure abuse like “fascist,” New York Times language columnist William Safire defined...

On Involuntary Service (January 2007)

Second Thoughts On Involuntary Service By Christopher Clausen EVERY TIME the United States gets involved in combat, someone is sure to call for reinstating the military draft...

An Experiment in Freedom (January 2006)

Second Thoughts An Experiment in Freedom By Christopher Clausen I became aware of The New Leader as a college freshman in 1961, not quite halfway through its life cycle and early in my...

A Carnival of Terror (September 2005)

Writers & Writing A Carnival of Terror By Christopher Clausen Early in 1864 two generals met at Nashville, Tennessee, to decide how to win the Civil War once and for all. Ulysses S. Grant,...

The Makings of a President (July 2004)

Second Thoughts The Makings of a President By Christopher Clausen When Ilived in southwestern Virginia 20 years ago, the backbone of the local Democratic Party consisted of men in...

The Year That Changed Its Mind (November 2003)

Second Thoughts The Year That Changed Its Mind By Christopher Clausen For many who were young then, it remains after all this time the best of years and the worst of years. It was a...

Barking at the Superpower (September 2002)

Second Thoughts Barking at the Superpower By Christopher Clausen "People of all superdominant nations love war," opined columnist George Monbiot of the (London) Guardian recently. "As...

Yes, Virginia, There Is a War On (November 2001)

Second Thoughts Yes, Virginia, There Is a War On By Christopher Clausen On October 26, 2001, United States forces accidentally bombed a Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the...

The Liberal Dilemma (May 2001)

Second Thoughts The Liberal Dilemma By Christopher Clausen Most heated arguments about the past are really about the present. The talking heads who populated Ken Burns' documentaries...

The Century's Corpse (November 2000)

Second Thoughts The Century's Corpse By Christopher Clausen "Twentieth century's TRIUMPHANT ENTRY!" proclaimed the lead headline in the New York Times for January 1, 1901. (In those days...

The Death of Cultures (May 2000)

Second Thoughts The Death of Cultures By Christopher Clausen Whenever you put your foot in your mouth, my Texas grandmother used to say, just spit out your shoe and keep talking. People...

Where Have All the Anti-Communists Gone? (June 1999)

Second Thoughts WHERE HAVE ALL THE ANTI-COMMUNISTS GONE? By Christopher Clausen For A conflict that lasted nearly half a century, the Cold War faded into history with surprising speed. The...

Ich bin ein Berliner (December 1998)

Second Thoughts ICH BIN EIN BERLINER By Christopher Clausen When Sir Isaiah Berlin died in November 1997 at the age of 88, he left behind a controversy over the significance of his...

Bilingualism and After (June 1998)

Second Thoughts BILINGUALISM AND AFTER By Christopher Clausen When Californians decided on June 2 to eliminate most bilingual classes in public schools, the many Asians and Hispanics who...

God and the Government (May 1998)

Second Thoughts GOD AND THE GOVERNMENT By Christopher Clausen Just as November is the Month of Revolutions, April and May comprise the Religion-in-Politics Bimonth. Why should...

New Democrats R.I.P. (February 1998)

Second Thoughts NEW DEMOCRATS R.I.P By Christopher Clausen Let's suppose the Clinton Administration survives the Great Bimbo Eruption of '98. Nothing short of absolute proof that its...

The Fading Enlightenment (December 1997)

Second Thoughts THE FADING ENLIGHTENMENT By Christopher Clausen As the tail end of the second millennium scurries toward its appointment with history, the 18th century seems longer ago with...

Once More Around the Race Track (October 1997)

Second Thoughts ONCE MORE AROUND THE RACE TRACK By Christopher Clausen Although few people rank it in polls as one of the country's leading problems, "race"—the single, stark word with all...

Come on. Baby, Stir My Spam (June 1997)

Second Thoughts COME ON, BABY STIR MY SPAM By Christopher Clausen A century ago this month, Queen Victoria celebrated her six decades on the British throne with a Diamond Jubilee....

Washington Adrift (May 1997)

Second Thoughts WASHINGTON ADRIFT By Christopher Clausen Call it a leadership vacuum, paralysis, gridlock, or whatever you like, but the United States government is drifting as it hasn't...

Munich in Beijing (March 1997)

Second Thoughts MUNICH IN BEIJING By Christopher Clausen Fifty-two years after it ended, the Holocaust remains a conspicuous and reproachful presence in American public culture. The...

Up and Down with Stephen and Jack (December 1996)

Second Thoughts UP AND DOWN WITH STEPHEN AND JACK BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN It's been a long voyage, but Captain John Aubrey, RN, and Dr. Stephen Maturin seem to be heading, if at a leisurely pace,...

The Meaning of Moderation (November 1996)

Second Thoughts THE MEANING OF MODERATION BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN The more things stay the same, the more they change. A few days after the 1996 election, the conventional wisdom was that both...

Off the Rails (October 1996)

Second Thoughts OFF THE RAILS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN If you live in central Pennsylvania and have reason to visit the Big Apple now and then, you're almost certainly famihai with Amtrak's two...

Victorians and After (August 1996)

Second Thoughts VICTORIANS AND AFTER BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN "ONE THING is pretty cer-tain," wrote Leslie Ste-^^^r phen, the eminently Victorian father of Virginia Woolf, "and in its way...

Woes of a Fun-Loving Organ (May 1996)

Second Thoughts WOES OF A FUN-LOVING ORGAN BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN LATELY PROSTATES have been in the news a lot. Some of them have been political organs—we learn that Bob Dole had his removed, and...

Escape from Politics (December 1995)

Second Thoughts FROM POLITICS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN AS EVERYONE KNOWS, the 1996 Presidential campaign began unofficially right after the 1994 midterm elections made mincemeat of the Democrats...

Confessions of a GS-2 (December 1995)

Second Thoughts CONFESSIONS OFAGS-2 BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN Not long ago the editor of a quarterly magazine for exceptionally bright people complained he was getting old. The most visible...

The Ivory Tower Under Siege (September 1995)

Second Thoughts THE IVORY TOWER UNDER SIEGE BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN DURING a hot summer of budget debate, Congressman David Obey (D.-Wis.) announced irately on the floor of the House that the...

The Politics of Gestures (June 1995)

Second Thoughts THE POLITICS OF GESTURES BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN IN THE FEVERED MONTH since the Oklahoma City bombing, things have happened that only an H. L. Mencken could do justice. The most...

Beyond Literacy (May 1995)

Second Thoughts BEYOND LITERACY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHEN MICHAEL KINSLEY announced he was going to stop writing his syndicated column in favor of a full-time television career, I realized that...

2005: A Presidential Odyssey (February 1995)

Second Thoughts 2005: A PRESIDENTIAL ODYSSEY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN DURING THE MORE ruminative moments of his new Speakerhood, Newt Gingrich enjoys describing himself as a "conservative...

Canons in Front of Them (September 1995)

Second Thoughts CANONS IN FRONT OF THEM BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN I WOULDN'T ADMIT IT in a faculty meeting, but sometimes I feel like a motherless middlebrow, the only one left in America. When the...

Visualize No Liberals (November 1994)

Second Thoughts VISUALIZE NO LIBERALS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN LARRY is A high-school teacher who lives on the farm his family has owned for a century and a half in the Shenandoah Valley of...

Raising the Family (October 1994)

Second Thoughts RAISING THE FAMILY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN ARTHUR W. CALHOUN is a for?gotten name among social sci?entists, but 75 years ago he pub?lished a three-volume Social Histoiy of the...

Taking Liberties with the ACLU (August 1994)

Second Thoughts TAKING LIBERTIES WITH THE ACLU BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHEN THE WORLD and I were somewhat younger, I decided one day to fork over a thousand dollars (roughly a year's savings) and...

The Culture of Culture (June 1994)

Second Thoughts THE CULTURE OF CULTURE BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN BOOKS IN PRINT offers a good introduction to a word that not long ago went into business like an '80s corporate raider. The latest...

Good Old Boys (April 1994)

Second Thoughts GOOD OLD BOYS by christopher clausen Down in Dixie, where mores are different and the money began to flow too easily about the time Bill Clinton came of age, folks may be less...

CONSPIRACY OF THE MODERNISTS (December 1993)

Conspiracy of the Modernists The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 By John Carey St. Martins. 246pp. $19.95. Reviewed by...

The Power of Vulnerability (May 1993)

The Power of Vulnerability Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America By Robert Hughes Oxford. 210 pp. $19.95. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America By Ronald Takaki...

LIBERALS AND THE ACADEMIC LEFT (January 1993)

Perspectives LIBERALS AND THE ACADEMIC LEFI BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN tO be a liberal at the beginning of the Clinton Administration? The term has been caricatured for so long by...

A Caveat for the Democrats (November 1992)

Perspectives A CAVEAT FOR THE DEMOCRATS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN In 1988 Michael Dukakis went down in history as the Democratic Presidential candidate who turned a big lead into a disaster....

Reading the Supermarket Tabloids (September 1992)

Culture Watching READING THE SUPERMARKET TABLOIDS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN When Governor Bill Clinton contemptuously described the tabloid Star last January as a paper that specializes in stories...

CLAWSON, PATRICK

CLAZER, NATHAN

Cleassens, Gus

CLEAVER, CAROL

CLEAVER, CAROLE

CLEMENS, WALTER C. Jr.

Clercq, Jacques Le

CLEWS, JOHN

CLICK, DAVID S.

Cloessens, Gas

Clothier, Robert C.

Cmeal, James