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Paid article Obama vs. the 'Outside Agitators'
Obama vs. the 'Outside Agitators' Readers may have noticed that, during the past seven or eight months, the tradition of honorable dissent in American political life seems to have become...
Paid article LITTLE MISS SUNSCREEN
HAM, MARY KATHARINE
_Casual Little Miss Sunscreen Iam a reapplier. If one were to do the math, one would likely find that, all told, I lost an entire summer of my youth reapplying my sunscreen while my friends were...
Paid article Real Health Reform
levin, yuval
EDITORIAL the weekly Standard Real Health Reform This has been a most unhappy summer for liberal health care reformers. As recently as May, Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus could...
Paid article Tweeting While Iran Burns
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
Looking back on it, it's hard to understand how the recent Iranian revolution failed. Sure, the mullahs had guns, tanks, an air force, police, the Revolutionary Guard, the Basij, and imported...
Paid article Don't Go There
EMERY, NOEMIE
Don't Go There Martha's Vineyard is not the best presidential vacation site. by Noemie Emery Dear Mr. President, How nice to know you will summer on Martha's Vineyard at Blue Heron Farm, where the...
Paid article The Untimely Demise of the F-22
GOLDFARB, MICHAEL
In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned "against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Last month, John McCain...
Paid article A War Grows in Afghanistan
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
A War Grows in Afghanistan Does Obama have the courage to win it? by Stephen F. Hayes For months, we've been hearing about deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan. Insurgent attacks are up....
Paid article The Zubaydah Dossier
JOSCELYN, THOMAS
The Zubaydah Dossier Assertions that the terrorist was anything other than a central figure in al Qaeda's inner circle are ludicrous. By Thomas Joscelyn During the early hours of March 28, 2002,...
Paid article "Peace, It's Wonderful"
SCHMITT, GARY
Peace, It's Wonderful But winning it is hard work. by Gary schmitt Late in 2007 Michael Semple, an Irishman working as a top official for the European Union in Afghanistan, and Mervyn Patterson, a...
Paid article Jazz by the Book
GIOIA, TED
Jazz by the Book Up the river from New Orleans, and into the concert halls. by Ted Gioia W hen I was 17 years old and newly arrived on my college campus, I scandalized the department of music by...
Paid article Picture Perfect
O'GARA, JAMES F. X.
Picture Perfect The first Grand Tour with color film in the cameras. by James F. X. O'Gara In a passage in his Discourse on Method that echoes the first lines of the Odyssey, Descartes describes...
Paid article The Golden Door
BANNER, JAMES M. Jr.
The Golden Door Ground zero in the 'third wave' of immigration. by James M. Banner Jr. Ask most Americans what makes the United States distinctive, and what Americans have to teach the world, and...
Paid article Right Stuff
HAYWARD, STEVEN F.
Right Stuff What does it mean to be an American conservative? by Steven F. Hayward Patrick Allitt has succeeded admirably in his objective of producing a compact survey of American conservative...
Paid article Fighting Quaker
Achorn, Edward
Fighting Quaker Would independence have been won without Nathanael Greene? by Edward Achorn He is, in many ways, the classic American male: a hard-driving businessman making it on his own,...
Paid article Darkness Visible
PALMER, ANDREW
Darkness Visible Stories that plumb the depths below the surface. by Andrew Palmer The best stories in this debut collection are told—with great warmth, expansive-ness, and humor—by men, and they...
Paid article Global Warning
BREEN, JON L.
Global Warning The horror at the heart of Al Gore's utopia. by Jon L. Breen Two categories of readers may be tempted early in the going to lay aside—or, if of a more volatile temperament, throw...
Paid article On Becoming G.K.
CHALBERG, JOHN C.
On Becoming G.K The invention of Chesterton was a complicated process. by John C. Chalberg George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, 1934 Somewhere on virtually everyone's list of...
Paid article Who Was She?
sChaRPeR, diane
Who Was She? In search of the aunt who was locked away forever. by Diane Scharper In the 1950s public psychiatric hospitals housed nearly half-a-million patients. By 1980 the number had dropped by...
Paid article Bluegrass Fever
Alston, Edith
Bluegrass Fever Music to accompany despairs of the heart. by Edith Alston The story is acutely intense, and as lean as a three-character play: In a remote area of Kentucky, a young woman leaves...
Paid article May We Recommend
TERZIAN, PHILIP
May We Recommend Four books, each very different from the others, that captured our attention. by Philip Terzian First, two volumes intended for the coffee table, well worth examining in detail....
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