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 Vol. 014 Issue 016 (January 5 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 017 (January 19 2009)
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 The Group of Five
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Scrapbook The Group of Five It may be surprising to learn that living presidents don’t get together as often as you might think. This January 7 photograph of the incoming and outgoing...
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"DONALD E. WESTLAKE, 1933-2008"
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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Casual DONALD E. WESTLAKE, 1933-2008 The great Donald Westlake died of a heart attack on New Year’s Eve. When I heard the news, I did what I thought he’d want me to do: I reread a...
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Bush's Achievements
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BARNES, FRED
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EDITORIAL Bush’s Achievements The postmortems on the presidency of George W. Bush are all wrong. The liberal line is that Bush dangerously weakened America’s position in the world and...
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WE ARE ALL DETROITERS
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ISAAC, PAUL J.
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Correspondence WE ARE ALL DETROITERS MATT LABASH’S portrait of Detroit (“The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep,” December 29) was poignant and sympathetic. He wanted to write about a panoply...
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Facing Reality
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GELERNTER, DAVID
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Facing Reality The answer to the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. BY DAVID GELERNTER Several smart observers have described the root cause of the ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas in the...
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Cheney: The Exit Interview
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Cheney— the Exit Interview On North Korea, the bailout, and Obama’s naivet?. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES When I showed up for my interview with Vice President Dick Cheney on January 6, he was...
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A Scholar and a Gentleman
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COHEN, ELIOT A.
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A Scholar and a Gentleman Samuel P. Huntington, 1927-2008. BY ELIOT A. COHEN As the obituary notices will tell you, Samuel Huntington was a controversial fi gure. They lead, normally, with...
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"Richard John Neuhaus,"
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009 A gaping hole in the public square. BY JOSEPH BOTTUM He was the greatest reader I ever met. The greatest reader, and a cigar smoker, and a walker, and a...
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The Fight Over Flight 93
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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The Fight Over Flight 93 Will the memorial ever be built? BY JONATHAN V. LAST On December 9, the Families of Flight 93 group sent a letter to President Bush. Progress on the national Flight...
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A New Circus Comes to Town
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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A New Circus Comes to Town They’re going to need more than three rings BY P.J. O’ROURKE Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn’t president yet?...
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The Stimulus Trap
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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The Stimulus Trap And how to avoid it BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI Pretty much everybody seems to agree that the economy needs stimulating. They agree on this because the United States has been in...
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The New Deal Metaphor
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PIERESON, JAMES
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The New Deal Metaphor It’s faulty, misleading, and dangerous— and a surprising number of Democrats are embracing it. BY JAMES PIERESON Much as generals make the mistake of fi ghting the...
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Adams the Less
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Achorn, Edward
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Adams the Less Making the case for Samuel BY EDWARD ACHORN When John Adams arrived in France in 1779 to assist Benjamin Franklin in his crucial work of obtaining loans and battleships...
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Here Today
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SKINNER, DAVID
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Here Today The mystery of an academic novel-within-a-novel. BY DAVID SKINNER So you write a novel, a story about writing and writers in which you play off the personal quirks and literary...
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Notes for Moderns
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VALIUNAS, ALGIS
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Notes for Moderns The atonal sounds of the 20th century in music. BY ALGIS VALIUNAS Twentieth century music takes a lot of getting used to, and more often than not it turns out to be...
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We're Not Laughing
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GUASPARI, DAVID
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We’re Not Laughing Two political scientists are stranded on an island . . . BY DAVID GUASPARI Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein have followed their best-selling Plato and a Platypus Walk Into...
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Brain Drain
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HOLLANDER, PAUL
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Brain Drain Are Americans hostile to intellectuals, or vice versa? BY PAUL HOLLANDER American anti-intellectualism is a venerable and much lamented phenomenon, as well as a...
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Period Piece
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BARBIC, KARI
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Period Piece Where credit is due the little black circle. BY KARI BARBIC Look! There on the page. It’s a crumb . . . it’s a stain . . . no, it’s super dot—come to save the sentence from...
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Parody
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Parody “Leon E. Panetta, a former congressman and White House chief of staff, has been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Central Intelligence Agency. The choice … immediately...
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Vol. 014 Issue 018 (January 26 2009)
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