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Scrapbook Reporters in Extremis THE SCRAPBOOK got a vision of the deep abyss into which the news business might soon fall—and frankly, it was truly horrifying. Yes, we’re talking about the...

BLIND BEAGLE

TERZIAN, PHILIP

Casual BLIND BEAGLE A little over 12 years ago I brought home a beagle pup to the welcoming arms of my son and daughter, then aged 11 and 5. The last of our three hounds had died two...

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

JACOBSEN, JANE RILEY

Correspondence RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN HIS REVIEW OF Thomas F. Farr’s World of Faith and Freedom, Joseph Loconte wrote, “The National Endowment for Democracy promotes programs...

A President-Elect's Progress

KRISTOL, WILLIAM

EDITORIAL A President-Elect’s Progress Until last week, the most important and most famous man of the cloth with whom Barack Obama was associated was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his...

"Senate, for Sale or Rent"

Epstein, Joseph

Senate, for Sale or Rent It’s all about the Jacksons. BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN Early on the evening of November 25, I was met at the reception desk of WTTW, the PBS station in Chicago, by a...

Nobody Knows the Trouble He'll See

BARNES, FRED

Nobody Knows the Trouble He’ll See A few clouds on Obama’s horizon. BY FRED BARNES Except for the distraction (or worse) caused by the Blagojevich scandal, President-elect Barack Obama has...

Guess Who Doesn't Like the Press?

HAYES, STEPHEN F.

Guess Who Doesn’t Like the Press And the feeling may be mutual. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES On April 21, 2008, the day before Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary, Barack Obama sat at the counter of...

Euthanasia Comes to Montana

SMITH, WESLEY J.

Euthanasia Comes to Montana Courtesy of judicial activism. BY WESLEY J. SMITH On December 5, Montana District judge Dorothy McCarter ruled in Baxter v. Montana that the state law...

The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep

LABASH, MATT

The City Where the Sirens Never Stop Detroit is dying. But, it is not yet dead. BY MATT LABASH My plane hadn’t even fi nished descending through the snow-drizzly sheets of December gray,...

Learning from Venturi

Caldwell, Christopher

Learning from Venturi ‘Maximum feasible dissent’ on architecture BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Time has killed off a lot of modernist art. College courses that teach Gertrude Stein must be...

One for All

BLITZ, MARK

One for All The sociopolitical virtue of selfl ess action. BY MARK BLITZ On Thinking Institutionally is intelligent, deeply felt, and engagingly written. Were academic social scientists to...

Campus Confi dential

TUSHNET, EVE

Campus Confi dential Loving to learn, and learning to love, in America. BY EVE TUSHNET Recently, Charles Murray and others have argued that too many people go to college. If enough...

Veep-Hunting

WILLCOX, CHRISTOPHER

Veep-Hunting Looking for the party line on Cheney? Here it is. BY CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX Anyone still interested in the sorry state of mainstream journalism should have a good, long look at...

Between the Wars

Short, Edward

Between the Wars When the European powers had a League of their own. BY EDWARD SHORT Virginia Woolf once remarked of Edward Gibbon’s great work, “Few people can read the whole of the...

Frost the Snowman

PODHORETZ, JOHN

Frost the Snowman A magical transformation of nothing into something. BY JOHN PODHORETZ Classic interviews have a way of fastening themselves like barnacles to the reputations of their...

Parody

Parody “President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a U.S. Senate seat appointment than previously reported, the Sun-Times has...

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