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IssueVol. 015 Issue 007 (November 2 2009)
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Paid articleSYCOPHANCY IN OUR TIME
Sycophancy in Our Time Once upon a time Lyndon Johnson’s chief of staff, Jack Valenti, gave a speech in which he expressed the view that “I sleep better each night knowing that Lyndon Johnson...
Paid articleTHE AGE OF INNOCENCE
TERZIAN, PHILIP
The Age of Innocence Until THE WEEKLY STANDARD offered me a parking space and I began driving to work, I was a lifelong consumer of public transportation. Trains, in particular, are a...
Paid articleTHE PELOSI PLAN
KRISTOL, WILLIAM
The Pelosi Plan In 1993, a newly elected Democratic president and a Democratic Congress pushed through a tax increase on a party-line vote. The next year Democrats lost control of Congress,...
Paid articleHARK! THE HERALDED DYLAN SINGS
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Hark! the Heralded Dylan Sings Bob Dylan fans are the battered wives of the music industry. BY ANDREW FERGUSON He is one of the great artists of the century. —Andrew Motion, England’s poet...
Paid articleOBAMA'S FIGHT TO WIN OR LOSE
BARNES, FRED
Obama’s Fight to Win or Lose Mitch McConnell takes a shrewd tack in the battle over Obamacare. BY FRED BARNES The easy life is about to end for President Obama. For the fi rst time, he can’t...
Paid articleWHEN PRO-ISRAEL IS NOT VERY PRO-ISRAEL
GOLDFARB, MICHAEL
When Pro-Israel Is Not Very Pro-Israel Meet the J Street gang. BY MICHAEL GOLDFARB What would you call a group that opposes sanctions on Iran, questions Israel’s right to defend itself from...
Paid articleTHE FLYING IMAMS WIN
Johnson, Scott W.
The Flying Imams Win And the rest of us lose. BY SCOTT W. JOHNSON The case of the fl ying imams who were removed in November 2006 from a USAirways fl ight in Minneapolis for questioning by...
Paid articleMCCHRYSTAL LITE
DONNELLY, TOM; SULLIVAN, TIM
McChrystal Lite How to lose a war by splitting the difference. BY TOM DONNELLY AND TIM SULLIVAN In its continuing search for an alternative to General Stanley McChrystal’s...
Paid articleTHE TWO-FRONT WAR
KAGAN, FREDERICK W.
The Two-Front War Pakistan is fi nally doing its part. Now we need to do ours. BY FREDERICK W. KAGAN A network of militant Islamist groups stretches from India to the Iranian border, from the...
Paid articleTOO SMALL TO FAIL
STUTTAFORD, ANDREW
Too Small To Fail The brutal realities of Latvia’s response to the economic meltdown. BY ANDREW STUTTAFORD Riga, Latvia It’s a measure of the tension of the times in which we live that Anders...
Paid articleTHE GOOD DOCTOR
Short, Edward
The Good Doctor Samuel Johnson, writer and sage BY EDWARD SHORT James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) may be the greatest biography ever written, but it is also uneven, unbalanced,...
Paid articleA FINE MESS
TEACHOUT, TERRY
A Fine Mess Even E.L. Doctorow can’t spoil the saga of the Collyer brothers. BY TERRY TEACHOUT If you take a bus to Manhattan and keep an eye peeled as you roll through Harlem, you...
Paid articleCASE BY CASE
Eastland, Terry
Case by Case The new Oxford edition of decisions that made history. BY TERRY EASTLAND In 1992 Oxford University Press brought out The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United...
Paid articleCOOL GONE COLD
marLowe, ann
Cool Gone Cold Old hipsters now need hip replacement. BY ANN MARLOWE Reading Ted Gioia’s dustjacket credits (“Best-selling author of The History of Jazz and Delta Blues”), readers may think...
Paid articleATROCITY ROAD
MATUS, VICTORINO
Atrocity Road In the Philippines, a Japanese assault on civilization. BY VICTORINO MATUS Although my father was only four years old when the Japanese Army invaded his island in the...
Paid articleBIG TALKER
GRANT, JAMES
Big Talker The reputation of Isaiah Berlin rests on words and letters, not books. BY JAMES GRANT On June 11, 1957, two days before the announcement of his knighthood (awarded, so a...
Paid articlePOLK'S EMPIRE
Achorn, Edward
Polk’s Empire The president who did what he said he would do— and in one term. BY EDWARD ACHORN Historians still fi ercely debate whether James K. Polk is our most...
Paid articleANNUALS OF CRIME
BREEN, JON L.
Annuals of Crime The choice of ‘Best’ can be a mystery, too. BY JON L. BREEN Houghton Miffl in’s determination to isolate the best American writing each year has gone beyond the venerable...
Paid articleGREAT REFORMER
SWAIM, BARTON
Great Reformer Is freedom of conscience indebted to John Calvin? BY BARTON SWAIM There are a few great historical fi gures whose names can provoke denunciations even from people who...
Paid articlePARODY
“And I want to make a footnote here, because I noticed that somebody said that there was a meeting we were excluded from yesterday. I want to be very clear on that. The president had a television...
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