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Issue Vol. 013 Issue 042 (July 21 2008)
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Paid article The Great Craps vs. Poker Debate
Scrapbook The Great Craps vs. Poker Debate Last week Time published an entertaining look at the gambling habits of John McCain and Barack Obama. It seems that McCain is a big-stakes...
Paid article "THOMAS M. DISCH, 1940-2008"
BOTTUM, JOSEPH
Casual THOMAS M. DISCH, 1940-2008 He sent me a note on July 2, just some jokey line about politics: nothing unusual, nothing portentous, nothing worth a call to see how he was feeling....
Paid article Let's Not Be Provocative!
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
EDITORIAL Let’s Not Be Provocative! Asked how the United States ought to respond to last week’s Iranian missile tests, Barack Obama told CNN that it was important “we avoid...
Paid article What's Wrong with Self-Interest?
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Self-Interest Is Bad? Enough with the hectoring. BY ANDREW FERGUSON Oh, terrific. Now we have two of them— two presidential candidates, presumptive nominees of their respective parties,...
Paid article The $5.7 Trillion Myth
MOORE, STEPHEN
The $5.7 Trillion Myth The Democrats’ fuzzy math. BY STEPHEN MOORE This week John McCain offi cially released the details of his economic recovery tax plan. The howls of protest from...
Paid article Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Base
EMERY, NOEMIE
Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Base Obama’s position has been overtaken by events. BY NOEMIE EMERY Back in the heady days of late 2006—when Barack Obama decided on his run for...
Paid article "The Enthusiasm Gap, Part II"
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
The Enthusiasm Gap, Part II Conservative voters remain uninspired by the McCain campaign. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Standing on a stage at an autoparts manufacturing facility in this small town...
Paid article Monkey Business
SMITH, WESLEY J.
Monkey Business Spain apes the Declaration of Independence. BY WESLEY J. SMITH ‘I am an ape,” declared Pedro Pozas, a Spanish animal rights activist, in 2006. The Spanish parliament, which...
Paid article The Democrats' Popularity Fetish
Kirchick, James
The Democrats’ Popularity Fetish Global approval is overrated. BY JAMES KIRCHICK A major theme of this year’s presidential campaign is that the United States has lost the respect of the...
Paid article The Colorado Model
BARNES, FRED
The Colorado Model The Democrats’ plan for turning red states blue BY FRED BARNES Last January, a “confidential” memo from a Democratic political consultant outlined an ambitious scheme for...
Paid article The Quotas That Won't Die
Rubin, Jennifer
The Quotas That Won’t Die Neither party has the nerve to take on the scandal of preferential set-asides in government contracts. BY JENNIFER RUBIN Forty years ago, the Nixon...
Paid article Meetings of the Mind
Klepp, Lawrence
Meetings of the Mind Freud and his revolution BY LAWRENCE KLEPP Psychoanalysis is the movement that launched a thousand New Yorker cartoons, with a bearded shrink taking notes while...
Paid article Rating Updating
NOVAK, ROBERT D.
Rating Updating Some of our greatest presidents were not so great. BY ROBERT D. NOVAK S hould Andrew Jackson, founding icon of the Democratic party, be ranked 27th out of 39 rated...
Paid article How Teachers Learn
SAHM, CHARLES
How Teachers Learn Some unexpected lessons. BY CHARLES SAHM That is what the founder of Teach for America (TFA), Wendy Kopp, was told when she fi rst asked her Princeton adviser for...
Paid article In Search of Trumbo
RADOSH, RONALD
In Search of Trumbo You won’t fi nd him in ‘The Movie.’ BY RONALD RADOSH The late director Billy Wilder, referring to the “Unfriendly Ten”—later called the Hollywood Ten, who refused to...
Paid article Ideas in Battle
KIMBALL, ROGER
Ideas in Battle A publisher’s refl ection. BY ROGER KIMBALL At a June 4 meeting in Washington to observe the tenth anniversary of Encounter Books, sponsored by the Hudson Institute’s Bradley...
Paid article Parody
Parody “Is there such a thing as a ‘gay brain’? And, if so, are some people born with brains that make them more likely to be homosexual? . . . Those are some of the thorny questions that have...
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