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Vol. 021 Issue 004 (October 5 2015)
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Vol. 021 Issue 005 (October 12 2015)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK City Council Capers One of the advantages of progressive government in New York City these days is that the occasional actions and pronouncements of the city council provide a...
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Casual
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Epstein, Joseph
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casual Remembering Torelli In 1991 I wrote an essay for the American Scholar called "The Ignorant Man's Guide to Serious Music," in which I was both the ignorant man and the guide. The essay was...
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Editorials
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HEMINGWAY, STEPHEN F. HAYES, JONATHAN V. LAST, AND MARK
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EDITORIALS An Extraordinary Show of Weakness It was the middle of the night in Washington, D.C.—the early morning of September 30, 2015, in Iraq—when a three-star Russian general walked into the...
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Putin Unleashed
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Bolton, John R.
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Putin Unleashed Russia's move for dominance in the Middle East. by John R. Bolton By any objective measure, Russia has made a strategic decision to challenge America for dominance in the Middle...
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Swearing by the Constitution
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Eastland, Terry
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Swearing by the Constitution Ted Cruz's lodestone. by Terry Eastland Consider that in Republican Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, we have a presidential candidate who during his high...
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The End of Pax Americana
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SMITH, LEE
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The End of Pax Americana Obama's 'accomplishment.' by Lee Smith The United States, President Obama said at the U.N. General Assembly last week, "worked with many nations in this assembly to...
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What the Hell Is Going On?
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COST, JAY
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What _ the Hell Is Going On? The fraying of the national political consensus. by Jay Cost The latest political happenings—the rise of Donald Trump, John Boehner's surprise resignation as speaker...
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How to Succeed in the Hinterland
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Brannon, Ike
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How to Succeed in the Hinterland Get out fast. by Ike Brannon REO Speedwagon's legendary guitarist Gary Richrath, a native of my hometown of Peoria, passed away on September 13 at age 65, which is...
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Unhinged Hatred of the Police
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GELERNTER, JOSH
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Unhinged Hatred of the Police It has a long, sordid history. by Josh Gelernter The murdering of policemen to protest alleged police targeting of black people is not a new phenomenon. Nor are...
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Huddled Masses, Then and Now
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Huddled Masses, Then and Now Immigrants are not all alike. by Irwin M. Stelzer It is understandable that Donald Trump's vulgar attack on immigrants has nicer people up in arms, and that pundits...
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The Kemp Era
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KONDRACKE, MORTON; BARNES, FRED
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The Kemp Era When Republicans became the party of growth and tax cuts By Morton Kondracke & Fred Barnes In 1970, the year after Jack Kemp had retired as quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, he was...
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Rather Shameful
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Johnson, Scott W.; Hinderaker, John H.
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Rather Shameful 'Truth'is out there somewhere By Scott W Johnson & John H. Hinderaker When CBS's 60 Minutes Wednesday broadcast its lead story—reported by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes—on...
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Why Do We Not Save Christians?
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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Why Do We Not Save Christians? They need help, and they have no good place to go By Elliott Abrams The Yom Kippur liturgy, just followed in synagogues around the world, repeats several times...
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To Kill a Franchise
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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Books & Arts To Kill a Franchise By spoiling a Young Adult favorite. by P J. O'Rourke Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Harper, 288 pp., $27.99 Ithought I'd wait for the furor to die down a bit...
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Classical England
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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Classical England When Britain was an outpost of an earlier empire. by Joseph Bottum The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere Yale, 264 pp., $40 You can find them here and there,...
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Man vs. Pawn
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WOOSTER, MARTIN MORSE
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Man vs. Pawn The life of chess, from birth to checkmate. by Martin Morse Wooster Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture by Gary Alan Fine Chicago, 288 pp., $26 After the...
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Words in the Street
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SIMON, JOHN
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B A Words in the Street In prose and verse, the speaking voice of Charles Simic. by John Simon The Lunatic by Charles Simic Ecco, 96 pp., $22.99 The Life of Images Selected Prose by Charles...
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Awake and Sing
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BROMUND, TED
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Awake and Sing The very model of a modern light opera company. by Ted Bromund Wooster, Ohio No works of the late Victorian age are remembered with more affection than those of Gilbert and...
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Funny or Die
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B A Funny or Die If you don't see this movie—well, you know what happens. by John Podhoretz Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon Directed by Douglas Tirola If you are...
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Three Pinocchios for 'Honest' Abe
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PARODY "Fiorina uses a familiar, 'mailroom to boardroom' trope of upward mobility that the public is familiar with, yet her story is nothing like that. In telling her only-in-America story, she...
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Vol. 021 Issue 006 (October 19 2015)
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Vol. 021 Issue 007 (October 26 2015)
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