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Paid article Scrapbook
Scrapbook The Peaceable Political Kingdom THE SCRAPBOOK has its sentimental moments, but last Saturday evening, January 5, in Manchester, New Hampshire, was not one of them. We refer to the...
Paid article Casual
Epstein, Joseph
Casual GIMME SHELTER You live, they say (usually accompanied by a sigh), and you learn. They say it; I don’t. You live, I say (with an even deeper sigh), and you yearn. And I generally make...
Paid article The Surge Effect
BARNES, FRED
EDITORIAL The Surge Effect The match is almost perfect. As the surge in Iraq has succeeded, the presidential campaign of John McCain has risen from the ashes. This is no coincidence, and the...
Paid article The Triumph of Experience over Hope
LAST, JONATHAN V.
The Triumph of Experience over Hope How Hillary Clinton came back. BY JONATHAN V. LAST Manchester, N.H. It is popular to attribute Hillary Clinton’s poll-defying surprise victory in New...
Paid article Unity08, We Hardly Knew Ye
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Unity08, We Hardly Knew Ye The death of another third-party dream. BY ANDREW FERGUSON “Your torch has been lit!” read the email I got last summer. And now my torch has guttered out! Yours...
Paid article The Giuliani Implosion
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
The Giuliani Implosion From frontrunner to also-ran in eight short weeks. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI It’s a good thing for Rudy Giuliani that he believes in the power of optimism. These days his...
Paid article Symbolitics as Usual
DIIULIO, JOHN J. Jr.
Symbolitics as Usual A guide to non-instant election analysis. BY JOHN J. DIIULIO JR. For those who thought that Hillary Clinton was through because Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus, or...
Paid article Living in a Dream World
RUBIN, MICHAEL
Living in a Dream World The political fantasies of foreign service officers. BY MICHAEL RUBIN As pundits begin to write their obituaries of the Bush presidency, much ink will be spilled over...
Paid article Slugging It Out
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
Slugging It Out John McCain reclaims the lead by sticking to his guns on Iraq BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Peterborough, New Hampshire Wearing the uniform of the young Republican male—navy sport coat,...
Paid article The Case of the Amazing Disappearing Hate Crime
ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
JENA THE CASE OF THE AMAZING DISAPPEARING HATE CRIME The Jena Six became a national symbol of racism not because of an unequal justice system and the rise of a ‘new Jim Crow,’ but because...
Paid article Nasty, Brutish, and Funny
BERING, HENRIK
Books&Arts Nasty, Brutish, and Funny The satirist’s London of the 18th century BY HENRIK BERING City of Laughter Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell Walker, 695 pp.,...
Paid article Ford, Not a Lincoln
WHITCOMB, ROBERT
Ford, Not a Lincoln Post-White House table talk of the 38th president. BY ROBERT WHITCOMB Write It When I’m Gone Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M....
Paid article What Hath God Wrought
Klepp, Lawrence
What Hath God Wrought When an elderly philosopher meets a Dallas business consultant. BY LAWRENCE KLEPP There Is a God How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony...
Paid article True Love Waits
Salam, Reihan
True Love Waits Abstinence leads to all kinds of adventures. BY REIHAN SALAM The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta St. Martin’s, 368 pp., $24.95 Ever since Tom Perrotta struck comedy gold...
Paid article Farewell to Flashman
HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER
Farewell to Flashman The singular creation of George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008. BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Looking back over the nearly 40 years since I fi rst found myself immersed in a...
Paid article America Divided
SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
America Divided A historian sees three phases in the life of the Republic. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ America’s Three Regimes A New Political History by Morton Keller Oxford, 384 pp., $27.95 As...
Paid article Touch of Evil
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Touch of Evil ‘As painful as a root canal,’ but worth it? BY JOHN PODHORETZ There Will Be Blood Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Over the course of three decades, from 1898 to 1927, we watch...
Paid article Parody
Parody “I’ve always thought that . . . pollsters who call people up and ask them how they’re going to vote, speak in perfect English, and standard English; they speak with a kind of politically...
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