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Issue Vol. 018 Issue 003 (October 1 2012)
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Paid article The Scrapbook
THE SCRAPBOOK Bill Collector in Chief Over the last few years The Scrapbook has watched the rise of the behavioral social sciences with a profound sense of unease. It’s best to be alert to the...
Paid article The Greatest Story Never Read
Epstein, Joseph
CASUAL The Greatest Story Never Read Academics, I’m told, used to play a game at parties in which each person confessed to some great work he or she should have but never got around to reading....
Paid article Presidential Mitt
KRISTOL, WILLIAM
EDITORIALS Presidential Mitt On September 2, 1939, the day after Hitler invaded Poland, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made clear in the House of Commons that he still entertained hopes for...
Paid article The Minigolfer
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
The Minigolfer Viewers of the 2012 debates have witnessed an extraordinary turnaround. John Stuart Mill famously spoke of “a party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform.” Once...
Paid article Twenty Questions
HAYES, STEPHEN F.
Twenty Questions At about 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 18, Barack Obama strode into the Manhattan studios of Comedy Central for a taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The two men discussed...
Paid article Romancing Ohio
WOLFFORD, DAVID
Romancing Ohio The wooing of swing state voters proceeds apace. BY DAVID WOLFFORD Cincinnati No candidate has won the presidency without Ohio since John Kennedy, and no Republican has done so...
Paid article A Rising Political Star in Arkansas
BARNES, FRED
A Rising Political Star in Arkansas The state’s Republicans are in tall cotton. by Fred Barnes Texarkana, Ark. Tom Cotton is a first-time candidate for the House in Arkansas. What passes for...
Paid article Is Allen Able...
WARREN, MICHAEL
Is Allen Able . . . To beat Kaine? by Michael Warren Richmond, Va. It’s George Allen’s turn to give an opening statement at the second general election debate. The 60-year-old Republican’s broad...
Paid article Letting the Rabble Off Easy
TORRANCE, KELLY JANE
Letting the Rabble Off Easy The Iranian Revolution, according to Ben Affleck. by Kelly Jane Torrance Hollywood loves to think of itself as socially significant. But given how long it can take to...
Paid article A Taxing Proposition
Havard, Kate
A Taxing Proposition Will California’s voters soak themselves? by Kate Havard California is a wonderful state mismanaged by lunatics,” declares Steven Greenhut, vice president of journalism for...
Paid article What About Religious Freedom?
SMITH, WESLEY J.
What About Religious Freedom? The other consequences of Obamacare. by Wesley J. Smith Obamacare won’t just ruin health care. It is also a cultural bulldozer. Before the law is even fully in...
Paid article Whose Vote Counts Most?
BOTTUM, JOSEPH
Whose Vote Counts Most? For maximum clout in the presidential election, move to Virginia. by Joseph Bottum The good thing about the Electoral College—our strangely still-surviving 18th-century...
Paid article 'The Biggest Kiss'
Gray, C. Boyden; WHITE, ADAM J.
'The Biggest Kiss’ Mitt Romney was right: Dodd-Frank is a gift to big banks By C. Boyden Gray & Adam J. White Big Wall Street banks caused a financial crisis and brought the nation to the brink...
Paid article Reasonable Doubt
Achorn, Edward
Books & Arts Reasonable Doubt A closer look at the Sally Hemings saga. by Edward Achorn The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Report of the Scholars Commission edited by Robert F. Turner Carolina...
Paid article The Blago File
Hollingsworth, Barbara F.
The Blago File Now the question is: When will the caged bird sing? by Barbara F. Hollingsworth Golden How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor’s Office and into Prison by Jeff Coen...
Paid article Dancing Siblings
Henderson, Amy
Dancing Siblings Before Fred and Ginger, there was Fred and Adele. by Amy Henderson The Astaires Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley Oxford, 266 pp., $27.95 One of the best reasons film was invented...
Paid article Suite Charity
Short, Edward
Suite Charity Where the Bright Young Things escaped from World War II. by Edward Short The West End Front The Wartime Secrets of London’s Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet Faber & Faber, 362 pp.,...
Paid article Pay Per Venue
LEHRER, ELI
Pay Per Venue A new attraction for the movie palaces of old. by Eli Lehrer As multiscreen stadium-seating theaters with huge parking lots, endless rows of seats, anonymous lobbies, $12 popcorn,...
Paid article Escape from Tehran
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Escape from Tehran A good movie might have been great without the polemics. BY John Podhoretz Argo Directed by Ben Affleck The new Ben Affleck film— an efficiently told piece about a crazily...
Paid article He wears mom jeans!
PARODY “President Barack Obama, who hasn’t done a full White House press conference since March, is taking questions from the celebrity magazine Us Weekly.” —Politico, October 16,...
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