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Issue Vol. 004 Issue 019 (February 1 1999)
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Issue Vol. 004 Issue 021 (February 15 1999)
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Paid article SCRAPBOOK
scrapbook MONTCA SPEAKS! On Feb. 4, the deputy assistant to the president for ooze, Gregory Craig, begged the Senate not to include videotaped deposition testimony in the formal record of the...
Paid article CASUAL
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Casual FUTURE SHOCK I was sitting in the Senate press gallery last Monday afternoon, waiting for the final day of the impeachment trial to begin, when suddenly the future became real to me—the...
Paid article CORRESPONDENCE
GREAT GOTHAM Fred Siegel's review of our book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is generous and insightful, but it includes some puzzling assertions ("New York, New York," Feb. 8). He...
Paid article DEMOCRATS HELD HOSTAGE
ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
DEMOCRATS HELD HOSTAGE ELLIOTT ABRAMS WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED from the acquittal of Bill Clinton is that the American people are more "disposed to suffer, while evils are suf-ferable, than to right...
Paid article TOWARD NOVEMBER 2000
BELL, JEFFREY
TOWARD NOVEMBER 2000 JEFFREY BELL THE ACQUITTAL OF BILL CLINTON is a stinging setback for conservatives in the values war that has been going on in one form or another since the 1960s. But to...
Paid article THE PARTY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM
CEASER, JAMES W.
THE PARTY OF CONSTITUTIONALISM JAMES W. CEASER THE JURY IS STILL OUT on last week's verdict, and the battle over the meaning of the impeachment and acquittal of William Jefferson Clinton has just...
Paid article DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE
Collier, Peter
DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE PETER COLLIER ONE IMPORTANT LESSON is that conservatives underestimated Clinton from the beginning. We assumed that he was just a clever parvenu, a cheesy charisma merchant...
Paid article THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
CRITTENDEN, DANIELLE
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS DANIELLE CRITTENDEN WELL, ONE THING WE'VE LEARNED is that, in her attitudes towards men, the average American woman is as coarsened and world-weary as a 1920s Bronx showgirl....
Paid article CREEPING PAGANISM
DIIULIO, JOHN J. Jr.
CREEPING PAGANISM JOHN J. DIIULIO JR. BILL CLINTON FIRST REACTED BRAZENLY when caught red-handed in a series of bald-faced, lip-biting, finger-waving lies. But he rightly intuited that nowadays...
Paid article SPIN, POLLS, AND COURAGE
DOBSON, JAMES
SPIN, POLLS, AND COURAGE JAMES DOBSON WHAT A DRAMATIC YEAR it has been for "spinning" since the Clinton scandal broke in 1998. The distortions began with the First Lady's visit to NBC's Today Show...
Paid article OUR HALF-PRESIDENT
EMERY, NOEMIE
OUR HALF-PRESIDENT NOEMIE EMERY BILL CLINTON, the man who didn't inhale, and didn't consummate his relationship with the White House intern, may finally have gotten the punishment due him: He has...
Paid article THE DEFENSIVE PRESS
GELERNTER, DAVID
THE DEFENSIVE PRESS DAVID GELERNTER ALTHOUGH IT'S DEPRESSING AND ALARMING that the public thinks so badly of Republicans and well of the president, a questionable assumption underlies many of our...
Paid article DON'T LOOK BACK
GILMORE, JIM
DON'T LOOK BACK JIM GILMORE THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL of President Clinton is over. No matter what individual feelings are, as a country we should look to the future and not dwell on these recent...
Paid article CLINTON V. THE CONSTITUTION
Kesler, Charles R.
CLINTON V. THE CONSTITUTION CHARLES R. KESLER PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ESCAPE FROM JUSTICE was a disappointing spectacle. Nevertheless, his impeachment contains some important political lessons. To...
Paid article THE CLINTON KULTURKAMPF
KRAUTHAMMER, CHARLES
THE CLINTON KULTURKAMPF CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER REPUBLICANS STARTED the impeachment process thinking they were trying a reasonably straightforward case of perjury and obstruction of justice. They got...
Paid article AN AWESOME SHIPWRECK
LINDBERG, TOD
AN AWESOME SHIPWRECK TOD LINDBERG LET'S START WITH THE OBVIOUS: There may be grave political consequences for the Republican majorities that moved the impeachment process forward. And the judgment...
Paid article DEFENDING PROPRIETY
MANSFIELD, HARVEY
DEFENDING PROPRIETY HARVEY MANSFIELD WHEN I LAST APPEARED IN THESE PAGES it was to complain that the Republicans had not made an issue of President Clinton's misconduct during the election...
Paid article IT'S DUNKIRK, STUPID
MURPHY, MIKE
IT'S DUNKIRK, STUPID MIKE MURPHY HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. So, conservatives are depressed. Here's the good news: The entire six-years-and-running Clinton/Gore confidence scam peaked on Friday, the day...
Paid article OUR DREYFUS CASE
MURRAY, CHARLES
OUR DREYFUS CASE CHARLES MURRAY THINK OF THE IMPEACHMENT ACQUITTAL as the Dreyfus conviction: Deceit at the highest levels. A verdict that ignores the facts. A verdict rationalized because a...
Paid article NO MIDDLE WAY
O'SULLIVAN, JOHN
NO MIDDLE WAY JOHN O'SULLIVAN WHEN TRENT LOTT FIRST SUGGESTED that Bill Clinton might be censured by the Senate rather than found guilty on the impeachment charges and ejected from office, I was...
Paid article WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
PODHORETZ, NORMAN
WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN NORMAN PODHORETZ THE MOST DISHEARTENING LESSON of the entire farce through which we have lived for what feels like an eternity is how easy it has become to turn everything...
Paid article A PLAN OF ATTACK
PRAGER, DENNIS
A PLAN OF ATTACK DENNIS PRAGER We may not know for a while what we have learned. The nation has undergone a trauma and it is very difficult to know the precise effects of this trauma. Also, much...
Paid article LET'S NOT MOVE ON
RABKIN, JEREMY
LET'S NOT MOVE ON JEREMY RABKIN ONE THING WE HAVE LEARNED is that Clinton will trample anything—a solemn oath, a clear law, his constitutional duty, anything—in pursuit of his own advantage. A...
Paid article CUT TAXES-FOR THE NEEDY
STELZER, IRWIN M.
CUT TAXES—FOR THE NEEDY IRWIN M. STELZER BILL CLINTON IS SECURE in the White House, Congress is taking a break, and the Republicans, after a noble but failed effort to prove that no man is above...
Paid article TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING
YEATS, W.B.
TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING W.B. YEATS now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who,...
Paid article THE SENTIMENTAL MISANTHROPE
SKINNER, DAVID
THE SENTIMENTAL MISANTHROPE Why J.D. Salinger Can't Write By DAVID SKINNER J.D. Salinger's cultural significance seems beyond dispute. The Catcher in the Rye is a book read even by those who...
Paid article WORKING FOR STALIN
WEINER, LAUREN
WORKING FOR STALIN Why Americans Make Bad Spies By Lauren Weiner Left-wing historians used to say that their anti-Communist opponents greatly exaggerated the American Communist party's Cold War...
Paid article MOSES AT THE MET
WIEDER, LAURANCE
MOSES AT THE MET Schoenberg's Opera Reaches the Promised Land By Laurance Wieder Arnold Schoenberg had a superstitious horror of the number thirteen. He was born on September 13, 1874, the day...
Paid article PARODY
THE NATION “Increasingly Irrelevant for Over 130 Years” MEMO From: Victor Navasky To: Katrina vanden Heuvel Re: Next Year’s Cruise Katrina, As we’ve discussed, the Sidney Blumenthal vs....
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