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Paid article Inaugural Doggerel
Scrapbook Inaugural Doggerel THE SCRAPBOOK has been kept awake nights since Election Day, contemplating a tradition of sorts: Inaugural poetry. When America has been rescued from years of...
Paid article HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING
BOTTUM, JOSEPH
Casual HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING Little Lord Jesus no crying he makes and What the gladsome tidings be and We three kings of Orient are—to say nothing of if thou knowst it telling: Have...
Paid article Our Pakistan Problem
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
EDITORIAL Our Pakistan Problem Could its holy warriors be the most dangerous? The attack on Mumbai was in a way a primitive terrorist operation—individuals using machine guns and...
Paid article ANTI-SEMITISM IN IRAN
MEDOFF, RAFAEL
Correspondence ANTI-SEMITISM IN IRAN MATTHIAS K?NTZEL (“Defi ning Jew-Hatred Down,” November 17) points out that the anti-Semitism expressed by Iran’s leaders is in no way mitigated by the...
Paid article Psst . . . Wanna Buy a Senate Seat?
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
Pssst . . . Wanna Buy a Senate Seat? Saddened, sobered, appalled— what does Obama really think about Governor Blagojevich? BY STEPHEN F. HAYES ‘Saddened and sobered”—that was Barack Obama’s...
Paid article The Unlikeliest Congressman
VANCE, KEVIN
The Unlikeliest Congressman Anh Cao, Republican from New Orleans. BY KEVIN VANCE After devastating losses on November 4, Republicans fi nished the 2008 election cycle on a high note....
Paid article "Mr. President, Liberate Zimbabwe"
Kirchick, James
Mr. President, Liberate Zimbabwe A good deed for Bush’s fi nal days. BY JAMES KIRCHICK In the fi nal days of his presidency, George W. Bush will face an avalanche of requests....
Paid article Thirty Years of Reform in China
CHANG, GORDON G.
Thirty Years of Reform in China Economic collapse may soon bring political crisis. BY GORDON G. CHANG As Beijing celebrates the 30th anniversary of its reform era this month—generally...
Paid article The Unwisdom of Crowds
Caldwell, Christopher
The Unwisdom of Crowds Financial panics still require what Walter Bagehot prescribed— that practical men violate their own principles BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Neither Barack Obama nor John...
Paid article The Other American Auto Industry
BARNES, FRED
The Other American Auto Industry Plenty of car makers make a go of it in this country— they’re just non-union and not headquartered in Detroit. BY FRED BARNES Drew Ferguson IV is a...
Paid article Policing Afghanistan
marLowe, ann
Policing Afghanistan Too few good men and too many bad ones make for a grueling, uphill struggle BY ANN MARLOWE Like most of the rest of Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan, Gorbuz...
Paid article When Books Were Great
ROSEN, CHRISTINE
When Books Were Great Furrowing the American middlebrow BY CHRISTINE ROSEN The death of reading has been much in the news lately, and so Alex Beam’s new book, a rollicking tour of the...
Paid article Great Books Redux
SIMMONS, TRACY LEE
Great Books Redux An educator strives to rediscover knowledge. BY TRACY LEE SIMMONS Perhaps we could write off Roger H. Martin’s bizarre decision to the onset of a “midlife crisis” and make...
Paid article Slice of Life
Dworkin, Ronald W.
Slice of Life Transformation, mutilation, or titillation? BY RONALD W. DWORKIN Once, while I was assisting on a “nose job” in medical school, the attending surgeon asked me if I knew what...
Paid article Surreal Faith
TOOLEY, MARK
Surreal Faith The dangerous world of a left-wing fundamentalist. BY MARK TOOLEY Shane Claiborne is a Christian counter-culturalist and pacifi st who went to Baghdad in 2003 to express...
Paid article Noble Reformer
MILLER, JOHN R.
Noble Reformer Lessons for today from yesterday’s crusader. BY JOHN R. MILLER At a moment when a supposedly conservative Department of Justice is trying to weaken modern...
Paid article Postmortem Snaps
MEYERS, WILLIAM
Postmortem Snaps Life and death in the old Soviet Union, as seen in black and white. BY WILLIAM MEYERS It begins quietly enough. The introductory picture in Jason Eskenazi’s photo book is...
Paid article Parody
Parody “On Sunday pirates fi red at the American cruise ship the M/S Nautica, but the vessel outran its attackers.” —Washington Post, December 6,...
Issue Vol. 014 Issue 015 (December 29 2008)
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