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Paid article A Successor to The Public Interest
Scrapbook A Successor to ‘The Public Interest’ A little over four years ago, David Skinner eloquently bid farewell in these pages, “after 40 years of excellence,” to “the most important...
Paid article THE WEEK THAT WAS
Caldwell, Christopher
Casual THE WEEK THAT WAS W hen I was around the age of 20, the National Football League started to annoy me, and it hasn’t stopped annoying me since. There are few institutions—none...
Paid article A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Presidency?
KRISTOL, WILLIAM
EDITORIAL A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Presidency? The single most damning story about President Obama so far is one we know courtesy of his national security adviser, Jim Jones. Visiting the...
Paid article The New Third Rail
LINDBERG, TOD
The New Third Rail Why ‘death panels’ are a political killer. BY TOD LINDBERG If Hogwarts were a school for politicians, there would be a required class on “Defense Against the Dark Arts...
Paid article Technocracy in America
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
Technocracy in America Obama neglects the real ‘public option’: listening to the public. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI The partisan and misleading speech that President Obama delivered to a joint...
Paid article Democratic Dissenters
Mccormack, John
Democratic Dissenters How many House votes will Obamacare lose because of its abortion subsidy? BY JOHN MCCORMACK Representative Bart Stupak isn’t the type to yell “You lie!” while the...
Paid article Environmental Justice
HAYWARD, STEVEN F.
‘Environmental Justice’ The Van Jones backstory. BY STEVEN F. HAYWARD So Van Jones now takes his place as the Lani Guinier of the Obama administration, undone by his radical views. Like...
Paid article Total Recall
EPSTEIN, ETHAN
Total Recall The bid to oust America’s most leftwing mayor. BY ETHAN EPSTEIN In recent years, Portland has become a f?ted city among American liberals. What with its “fair-trade” coffee fi...
Paid article Words and Deeds
ANDRES, GARY
Words and Deeds Worn-out tactics in the Old Dominion. BY GARY ANDRES A familiar refrain haunts Virginia politics these days. Democrats in the Old Dominion are whistling their favorite...
Paid article What's Going on in Pyongyang?
CHANG, GORDON G.
What’s Going on in Pyongyang? North Korea responds to sticks, not carrots. BY GORDON G. CHANG On August 29, the North Korean government released four South Korean fi shermen whose boat had...
Paid article The Meltdown Next Time
LEHRER, ELI
The Meltdown Next Time The fi nancial danger nobody knows about. BY ELI LEHRER When the insurance giant American International Group was threatened with collapse in late 2008, its credit...
Paid article Pashtuns and Pakistanis
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
An Unnecessary Operation Obamacare threatens what’s right with American health care BY FRED BARNES This is the poll number that drives supporters of Obamacare crazy: Eighty-nine percent...
Paid article An Unnecessary Operation
BARNES, FRED
Pashtuns and Pakistanis A not-so-great game, but one America can’t give up BY REUEL MARC GERECHT The war in Afghanistan obviously isn’t going well. Depressing critiques from all...
Paid article After the Fall
FRIEDMAN, JEFFREY
After the Fall What really caused the fi nancial crisis? BY JEFFREY FRIEDMAN As we would expect from Richard Posner, the distinguished and polymathic writer, law professor, and circuit...
Paid article Dowding's Victory
LANKFORD, NELSON D.
Dowding’s Victory Neither luck nor chance won the Battle of Britain. BY NELSON D. LANKFORD During a visit to London in the 1990s my wife and I attended a service at St. Clement Danes, a...
Paid article A Lidless Eye
LEHRER, ELI
A Lidless Eye Early verse that clears the path to Tolkien’s genius. BY ELI LEHRER Nearly every parent, at one time or another, has had the experience of seeing a son or daughter eagerly...
Paid article Teachers' Pet
STOTSKY, SANDRA
Teachers’ Pet The never-ending quest for classroom innovation. BY SANDRA STOTSKY Tony Wagner, codirector of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, has...
Paid article Papa Does Paris
JULIAN, LIAM
Papa Does Paris A new, revised edition of Hemingway’s memoir. BY LIAM JULIAN Ernest Hemingway, after tossing off dozens of potential titles for what he was calling his Paris Sketches,...
Paid article Box Offi ce Poison
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Box Offi ce Poison The star system ain’t what it used to be—if it ever was. BY JOHN PODHORETZ The year 2009 has been a fi nancial disaster for nearly every industry save one:...
Paid article Parody
Parody “Van Jones, the [former] Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called ‘Truther’ movement which...
Issue Vol. 015 Issue 002 (September 28 2009)
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