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Paid articleScrapbook
As the Worlds Turn As readers might have guessed, THE SCRAPBOOK was mightily impressed by President Obama?fs major address to the Muslim world last week in Cairo. Not by the speech itself.which...
Paid articleCasual
Epstein, Joseph
Casual HOME MECHANIC W hen I was 11 years old, my parents bought a two-fl at apartment building. The building had a small front and back lawn, the care of which was turned over to me. I was no...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Correspondence COMMONWEAL AND ND JOSEPH BOTTUM’S article in your May 18 issue, “God and Obama at Notre Dame,” contained a number of serious inaccuracies regarding Commonweal magazine and the...
Paid articleThe Bailout State
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
The Bailout State It’s not every day that you get to witness the birth of a new social system. But General Motors’ June 1 bankruptcy, and the company’s likely reorganization under the ownership...
Paid articleNo Energy from this Executive
BARNES, FRED
No Energy from this Executive Watch what Obama does, not what he says. BY FRED BARNES ‘As I’ve often said, in the short term, as we transition to renewable energy,” President Obama stated in...
Paid articleRussia's Sphere of Coercion
YOUNG, CATHY
Russia’s Sphere of Coercion The bear was only hibernating. BY CATHY YOUNG Until last month, I had never heard of the Economic Forum, a Polish-run venture whose annual conference in the resort...
Paid articleTwo Sudans Are Better Than One
KAPLAN, ROGER
Two Sudans Are Better Than One How to end the civil war and weaken the Islamists. BY ROGER KAPLAN Modern Sudan is a complex geographical expression more than a country. Annexed by Egypt’s...
Paid articleThe Man Who Cried Doom
GOLDFARB, MICHAEL
The Man Who Cried Doom NASA’s James Hansen is the least-muzzled climate alarmist in America. BY MICHAEL GOLDFARB James Hansen fi rst warned America of impending doom. On a hot summer day in June...
Paid article'A Wise Latina Woman'
Rubin, Jennifer
‘A Wise Latina Woman’ The context shows that Judge Sotomayor meant what she said BY JENNIFER RUBIN Not since Rose Mary Woods made “18 ?” famous has a number so absorbed the attention of the...
Paid articleThere Is No 'Paradox of Thrift'
BLANKENHORN, DAVID
There Is No ‘Paradox of Thrift’ Neither a borrower nor a spender be BY DAVID BLANKENHORN Frightened by tough economic times, formerly spendthrift Americans are beginning to save. But the shift...
Paid article'Poet Laureate of Atoms'
TALBOT, JOHN
‘Poet Laureate of Atoms’ To appreciate Nature, understand Lucretius BY JOHN TALBOT Why bother, in 2009, with Lucretius, the Roman poet-philosopher? Never a better time than now, in this...
Paid articleMill of the Gods
SWAIM, BARTON
Mill of the Gods He knew that the best people know what’s best for you. BY BARTON SWAIM For the liberal, using that term in the American sense, political freedom isn’t freedom from governmental...
Paid articleLead Kindly Life
WILKINSON, EMILY COLETTE
Lead Kindly Life The kindness of strangers, or a strange sort of kindness? BY EMILY COLETTE WILKINSON More than 300 years after its publication, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and its grim vision of...
Paid articleBattle for Italy
Short, Edward
Battle for Italy The hard war in Europe’s soft underbelly. BY EDWARD SHORT In May 1915 Margot Asquith, the British prime minister’s wife, asked Admiral ‘Jackie’ Fisher, fi rst lord of the...
Paid articleExile's Voice
GARDNER, JAMES
Exile’s Voice Between the cartoons and the Talk of the Town, deliberate erudition. BY JAMES GARDNER It is fairly easy to dislike George Steiner. An unapologetic know-it-all and acrobatic...
Paid articleErrors of Comedy
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Errors of Comedy The basic question is a simple one: Do we laugh? BY JOHN PODHORETZ year’s Knocked Up, which was The 40-Year-Old Virgin of that year, which was the Harold and Kumar Go to White...
Paid articlePARODY
PARODY Nearly everyone following the General Motors bankruptcy case is asking the same question: Who is the Chinese company buying GM’s Hummer?” —Wall Street Journal blog, June 3,...
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