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Paid article Scrapbook
Scrapbook Dept. of Half-Empty Glasses Well, that was quick. It took Paul Kennedy 15 years to back off from the thesis of his 1987 book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, that the United...
Paid article Casual
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Casual MR. OBAMA HEAD The best store in Washington recently changed its name from the P&D Souvenir Factory to the classier-sounding Obama Biden Collectible Merchandises. The ex-P&D is on Tenth...
Paid article Correspondence
Correspondence NET-ZERO GAS TAX AS SERIOUS OBSERVERS EXPECT from him, Charles Krauthammer has produced a thoughtful analysis of the “Net-Zero Gas Tax” (January 5 / January 12). His discussion of...
Paid article Misreading History
Misreading History Some Republicans—including a lot on Capitol Hill— are in danger of making a mistake. They’re about to draw the wrong lessons from the Bush legacy. And misreading history will...
Paid article The Only Thing We Have to Fear...
BARNES, FRED
The Only Thing We Have to Fear… is Obama. BY FRED BARNES Barack Obama is the apostle of hope. But he also arouses the flipside of hope—fear. And while the fear he stirs may turn out to be...
Paid article It's Your Job Now
STELZER, IRWIN M.
It’s Your Job Now Bush hands over the reins. BY IRWIN M. STELZER As George Walker Bush watches Barack Hussein Obama be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, he may be among the...
Paid article Charter of Democracy
BORK, ELLEN
Charter of Democracy Will the dissidents in Beijing ever get the support their Soviet counterparts did? BY ELLEN BORK Teng Biao, a Chinese lawyer, is a prominent member of the “rights defense”...
Paid article Strange Days on Capitol Hill
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
Strange Days on Capitol Hill Republicans for Obama, Democrats unsure. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Strange Days on Capitol Hill Republicans for Obama, Democrats unsure. BY STEPHEN F. HAYESHouse minority...
Paid article Remembering Helen Suzman
TUPY, MARIAN L.
Remembering Helen Suzman South Africa’s old-school liberal, 1917-2009. BY MARIAN L. TUPY Growing up in Johannesburg in the mid-1990s, I had the great privilege of knowing Helen Suzman, the...
Paid article The Great Man Theory of History
YOUNG, CATHY
The Great Man Theory of History Russian style. BY CATHY YOUNG William Faulkner once said that the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past—and that’s certainly proving true in post-Soviet Russia....
Paid article Obama & the BCS
ANDERSON, JEFFREY H.
Obama & the BCS A playoff is not the change we need. BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON Under the bright lights, Florida scored 10 fourth-quarter points to beat Oklahoma 24-14 and claim the BCS National...
Paid article What Went Wrong?
EBERSTADT, NICHOLAS
What Went Wrong? The Bush administration’s failed North Korea policy BY NICHOLAS EBERSTADT Of all the disappointments for which the George W. Bush administration will be remembered, perhaps...
Paid article We Should Build a Bigger Navy
CROPSEY, SETH
We Should Build a Bigger Navy China is BY SETH CROPSEY About a decade ago the foreign policy establishment was busy dismissing China’s efforts to build a powerful, modern military. Writing in...
Paid article Annals of Eden
ANDERSON, RYAN T.
Annals of Eden Does the serpent have the last word? BY RYAN T. ANDERSON As St. Paul told the Romans: “Sin came into the world through one man; many died through one man’s trespass; the judgment...
Paid article RYAN T. ANDERSON
SWAIM, BARTON
Bleak House The view of mankind from Glasgow’s lower depths. BY BARTON SWAIM Schoolchildren nowadays are told to keep journals and write whatever comes to mind—this in the interest of helping...
Paid article Consider the Source
IBRAHIM, RAYMOND
Consider the Source Jihad has Islamic, and non-Islamic, roots. BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM For some time now there has been a raging debate regarding what fuels Islamic terrorism— whether grievances...
Paid article His Novel Idea
Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
His Novel Idea The point of good fiction is not theory but storytelling. BY EDWIN M. YODER JR. How-to books about writing or reading fi ction are usually disappointing, and for good reason:...
Paid article The Abstract Art
BLITZ, MARK
The Abstract Art How philosophers boil philosophy to its essence, and why. BY MARK BLITZ M uch as the mere WEEKLY STANDARD might aspire to be eternal, ontology is not among its readers’ obvious...
Paid article Oxoniennes
PASSAMANI, ELISE
Oxoniennes Women have crashed the gates of England’s oldest university. BY ELISE PASSAMANI One of the fi rst women to study at Oxford University in the late 19th century wrote that she would...
Paid article Pitt the Younger
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Pitt the Younger A tear-jerker conjures memories of ‘The Jerk.’ BY JOHN PODHORETZ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is stately, impressive, and, in its fi nal half-hour, very moving. Only...
Paid article PARODY
PARODY “The pilot who crash-landed an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River in New York has been promised a gold-plated ‘key to the city’ today in recognition of a ‘miraculous’ piece of...
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