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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK The State of the State of the Union Where you stand on President Obama’s State of the Union address last week depends, to some degree, on where you sit. Liberals thought the...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Buster Qua Buster For reasons too boring to go into, I have recently inherited custodial duties of the family dog. When Buster first arrived, more than a decade ago, we spent a fair...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS The Obama Complex President Obama couldn’t resist confi ding to a recent interviewer, “I am comfortable with complexity.” In fact, he is comfortable with a kind of...
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A REAL EQUALITY AGENDA
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COST, JAY
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Articles A Real Equality Agenda Let’s redistribute power, not income. BY JAY COST Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union address was a dreary, tiresome affair— which, to be fair, could be...
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WASHINGTON'S BLOCKHEADS
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Washington’s Blockheads The perpetual adulation of Herblock. BY ANDREW FERGUSON Herblock: The Black & the White, a documentary about the editorial cartoonist Herbert Block, had its cable...
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IN IRAN WE TRUST?
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Schoenfeld, Gabriel
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In Iran We Trust? If Tehran breaks its promises, we’re unlikely to know. BY GABRIEL SCHOENFELD President Obama is rushing to implement the six-month interim agreement with the Islamic Republic...
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TOP-DOWN PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
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GRABAR, MARY
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Top-down Parental Involvement Another federal education boondoggle? BY MARY GRABAR Athens, Ga. As the nation observed the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty in early...
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LET'S MOVE
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LEHRER, ELI; Sanders, Lori
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Let’s Move A better approach to poverty. BY ELI LEHRER & LORI SANDERS President Obama’s State of the Union speech brimmed with ideas to increase upward mobility and spur job creation—most...
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'KELO' REVISITED
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Sanders, Charlotte Allen
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Feature ‘Kelo’ Revisited Properties were seized and a neighborhood razed in the name of ‘economic development’ that never came BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN New London, Conn. ‘See that pole with the...
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OPIATE OF THE ELITES
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CANNATO, VINCENT J.
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Books & Arts Opiate of the Elites The gentrification of the American left. BY VINCENT J. CANNATO After the 2012 election, Mitt Romney’s loss prompted questions about the future of...
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SOCIAL ANIMALS
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Herbert, Wray
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B&A Social Animals Pondering the limits of anthropomorphism. BY WRAY HERBERT I could, if I chose to, make this sentence go on and on and on— forever, really. Don’t worry: I’m not going to do...
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A SECOND MOSES
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BLITZ, MARK
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B&A A Second Moses Maimonides, philosopher and Jew. BY MARK BLITZ ‘One spring Martin Buber came to Chicago,” Seth Benardete tells us in his Encounters and Refl ections, “and [Leo] Strauss...
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HOW DO WE KNOW?
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FELZENBERG, ALVIN S.
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B&A How Do We Know? The politics of the post-9/11 reforms. BY ALVIN S. FELZENBERG Of the thousands of books on Congress and the legislative process that adorn the shelves of libraries, few...
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MONUMENTS MEN
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Cole, Bruce
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B&A Monuments Men The battle to rescue Europe’s art from the Nazis. BY BRUCE COLE ‘HISTORICAL TREASURE. DO NOT ENTER.” Why, I wondered as a young student in Florence, was this tattered sign...
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THE RED WARBLER
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RADOSH, RONALD
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B&A The Red Warbler Pete Seeger, 1919-2014. BY RONALD RADOSH Pete Seeger’s death at the age of 94 has brought forth scores of celebratory tributes. America had long ago showered him with...
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NOT A PARODY
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Not A Parody The late Pete Seeger’s account of his tour of the Soviet Union, Soviet Life magazine, April...
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Vol. 019 Issue 022 (February 17 2014)
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Vol. 019 Issue 023 (February 24 2014)
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