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Issue Vol. 014 Issue 004 (October 6 2008)
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Paid article It's All Our Fault
Scrapbook It’s All Our Fault Thank goodness for Karen De Young. THE SCRAPBOOK, it seems, has badly misunderstood U.S.-North Korean nuclear diplomacy. We had been under the impression that...
Paid article MY CENTURY
SKINNER, DAVID
Casual MY CENTURY One hundred of anything can technically be called a century, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, but when I heard that a one-day, hundred-mile trip on...
Paid article DAVID SKINNER Followers
Lindsey,", "Lawrence B.
EDITORIAL Leaders Without Followers Just over a week ago the collapse in credit markets forced the secretary of the Treasury to assemble a bipartisan group from both houses of Congress to...
Paid article The Warrior and the Priest
BARNES, FRED
The Warrior and the Priest The revealing campaign styles of John McCain and Barack Obama. BY FRED BARNES John McCain, restless and emotional, couldn’t resist the temptation to join the battle...
Paid article "A Kinder, Gentler Mrs. Obama"
Hays, Charlotte
A Kinder, Gentler Mrs. Obama She’s more ‘Oprah’ than ‘The View.’ BY CHARLOTTE HAYS ‘So here we are—on The View. You guys don’t be nervous. Just ignore the cameras,” says Michelle Obama,...
Paid article Obama in Leftland
GELERNTER, DAVID
Obama in Leftland Don’t know much about history . . . BY DAVID GELERNTER Barack Obama is America’s first major party presidential candidate to have come of age after the Cultural Revolution...
Paid article The Example of Our Power
Kirchick, James
The Example of Our Power Bill Clinton’s verbal chicanery. BY JAMES KIRCHICK If you’ve recently taken a gander at the liberal foreign policy tomes, attended any think tank panels...
Paid article Capitalism's Extinction Events
TERZIAN, PHILIP
Capitalism’s Extinction Events Where were you the day Lehman Brothers died? BY PHILIP TERZIAN Like most Americans, I suspect, I will always remember where I was, and what I was doing, when...
Paid article The Enduring Power of Literature
WISSE, RUTH R.
The Enduring Power of Literature A cautionary tale about ‘change.’ BY RUTH R. WISSE The struggle between the Obama and McCain campaigns over who claims the motto of “Change” in the...
Paid article Bad Books Behind Bars
SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
Bad Books Behind Bars An inventory of extremist Islamic texts in federal prisons. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Early this year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced the completion of an...
Paid article Notes from the Nanny State
LAST, JONATHAN V.
Notes from the Nanny State On the tyranny of the baby seat BY JONATHAN V. LAST Sibley Memorial Hospital is generally acknowledged as the best place to have a baby in Washington, D.C. Located...
Paid article The Return of l'Histoire
GURFINKIEL, MICHEL
The Return of l’Histoire The New Anticapitalist party breathes (poisonous) life into the French left BY MICHEL GURFINKIEL Nicolas Sarkozy’s greatest stroke of luck so far in his brief tenure...
Paid article Darkness at Noon
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
Darkness at Noon A premature report from Iraq BY REUEL MARC GERECHT The second Iraq war, unlike the fi rst, has produced a lot of books. It has not yet, however, provoked a great work—a...
Paid article Have a Heart
MILLER, CHERYL
Have a Heart The use and misuse of the (deceased) human body. BY CHERYL MILLER To be cured by the hangman’s noose did not always have so ominous a sound. Throughout the Middle Ages,...
Paid article Ladies Bountiful
POWERS, ELIZABETH
Ladies Bountiful The women of words in Augustan England. BY ELIZABETH POWERS Though the term is now associated exclusively with women, “bluestocking” originally applied to both the men and...
Paid article Money for Nothing
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
Money for Nothing A bird’s-eye view of Wall Street’s nervous breakdown. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI Feel free to disagree, but for my money the best anecdote in this entertaining and informative...
Paid article Light on the Subject
GUASPARI, DAVID
Light on the Subject How mathematics can explain refl ection and refraction. BY DAVID GUASPARI The dust jacket of The Best of All Possible Worlds calls it “a journey through scientifi c...
Paid article Islamofascist
WEINSTEIN, JAMIE
Islamofascist The sinister career of a not-so-nifty mufti. BY JAMIE WEINSTEIN When not denying the Holocaust outright, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad often asks rhetorically why the...
Paid article PARODY
Parody “The New Republic will from now on be accepting . . . poetry submissions only online.” —New Republic, October...
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