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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Remembering Robert Bork THE SCRAPBOOK had the melancholy pleasure last week of attending a memorial service, at the Mayfl ower Hotel in Washington, for Robert Bork, who died a...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013 I cannot claim to have been an intimate of Margaret Thatcher’s. But I can claim to have known her on several levels—as a prime minister from whom I learned...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Leader of the Opposition In his book Manliness, Harvey Mansfield remarks that “The mightiest woman of our time, Margaret Thatcher, is no model for feminists, partly because of her...
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IRON WITHOUT IRONY
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Iron Without Irony The triumph of toughness. BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL If it is true that people’s political assumptions refl ect the battles that were being waged when they were 18, then my...
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THE VICTORIAN LADY
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HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE
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The Victorian Lady Margaret Thatcher’s virtues. BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB It was at a reception at the British embassy here in Washington in the early 1990s, I believe, when I was introduced to...
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THE DECLINE OF OBAMA
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BARNES, FRED
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The Decline of Obama How to lose friends and infl uence. BY FRED BARNES With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate...
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LOCATION, LOCATION
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COST, JAY
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Location, Location The secret to the Republicans’ House majority. BY JAY COST The 2012 national election continues to be a puzzle. Barack Obama won reelection with a solid 51 percent of the...
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START A FAMILY . . .
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Start a Family . . . And before you know it, you’ll be voting for the GOP. BY JONATHAN V. LAST In 2005, Steve Sailer wrote a cover story for the American Conservative theorizing that the...
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A MEDIA SMEAR
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YOUNG, CATHY
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A Media Smear Noxious gender politics go mainstream. BY CATHY YOUNG A sexual assault case involving several teenagers in Steubenville, Ohio, last fall turned into a national story—and, for...
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THE TEA PARTIER'S PROGRESS
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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The Tea Partier’s Progress From the House to the Senate. BY MICHAEL WARREN When Republican senator Tim Scott addresses an audience, he paces back and forth on the stage. He doesn’t use notes...
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WAITING FOR OBAMA
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Brannon, Ike
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Waiting for Obama Don’t expect White House leadership on corporate tax reform. BY IKE BRANNON The Obama administration recently signaled to the business community that it could countenance...
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DATELINE PYONGYANG
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EPSTEIN, ETHAN
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Dateline Pyongyang The AP’s problematic North Korea bureau BY ETHAN EPSTEIN In February, North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test since 2006. The test, performed in defiance of...
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ADVISE AND DISSENT
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BERGNER, JEFF
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Advise and Dissent The recess appointment power: a slow-motion train wreck BY JEFF BERGNER On January 25, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Obama did not have the...
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POET OF LOSS
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DIRDA, MICHAEL
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Books&Arts Poet of Loss Dead at 25, Keats is forever the passionate voice. BY MICHAEL DIRDA Oh, for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy. So wrote the author of “Sleep and...
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HERE'S THE BEEF
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Eastland, Terry
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Here’s the Beef Prime cuts, from the Chisholm Trail to Walter Mondale. BY TERRY EASTLAND This is the latest in the “edible series” of books put out by Reaktion Books, each of which explores...
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APOCRYPHAL NOW
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Kulik, Gary
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Apocryphal Now The psychology, and mythology, of the Vietnam war. BY GARY KULIK Nick Turse wants us to know that the killing of civilians during the war in Vietnam was “widespread, routine,...
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A HIDDEN MONUMENT
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GARDNER, JAMES
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A Hidden Monument Roosevelt Island commemorates its namesake. BY JAMES GARDNER Nearly 40 years after his death, the legendary architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974) has finally completed his first...
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NORTHERN HIGHLIGHTS
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TAUBE, MICHAEL
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Northern Highlights When Canadians watch ice hockey, this is what they see. BY MICHAEL TAUBE When the four-monthlong National Hockey League (NHL) lockout was resolved this past winter, a...
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IF MEMORY SERVES
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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If Memory Serves Familiar premise (art heist) meets tired device (amnesia). BY JOHN PODHORETZ T rance has to be judged one of the great disappointments in recent cinema, given that it is only...
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PARODY
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PARODY “‘In recognition of the special circumstances of sequester, [Secretary of State John Kerry] does intend to give the equivalent of five percent of his government salary to an appropriate...
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