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Paid articleThe Scrapbook
THE SCRAPBOOK No-Fly No-Gun Nonsense President Obama spent the weeks leading up to the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks talking about how ISIS was contained and shaming those who think the...
Paid articleSanta Claus Is Coming to Town
Epstein, Joseph
CASUAL Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Christmas these days is signaled not by the music played in shops and the wreaths hung along lampposts, but by the increasingly heavy load of catalogues that...
Paid articleEditorials
EDITORIALS the weekly Standard Our Opera Buffa On January 15, 1787, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote proudly from Prague to his friend Baron Gottfried von Jacquin: “Here nothing is talked about...
Paid articleMore of the Same
JOSCELYN, THOMAS
More of the Same Even after San Bernardino, Obama fails to change course. On December 6, Barack Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office for just the third time in his tenure. The...
Paid articleEnd of the West?
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
End of the West? Syria, the Islamic State, and Europe. Should the United States militarily defeat jihadist outfits in the Middle East? After 9/11 the answer seemed easy, but after the wars in...
Paid articleUnderstanding Terror
Ozick, Cynthia
Understanding Terror Depravity is a choice. On a New Yorker panel nearly a dozen years ago, in the wake of the publication of his novel Snow, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk set forth an emphatic...
Paid articleHow Corbyn Wins
STUTTAFORD, ANDREW
How Corbyn Wins Yes, it could happen. ameron moved so far to the left,” a journalist told me in London, “that he pushed Labour into the sea. Then it reemerged as a monster.” That’s not really why...
Paid articleWrong Again
BARNES, FRED
Wrong Again Governors make the best presidential candidates? Call it conventional unwisdom. At full tide, 9 of the 17 Republicans running for the 2016 presidential nomination were current or...
Paid articleIs Political Science Dying?
HAYWARD, STEVEN F.
Is Political Science Dying? Its wounds are self-inflicted. While the campus grievance mongers cry for Justice! and continue their drive for power and safe spaces, I note an extraordinary story in...
Paid articlePlaying Hurt
NORMAN, GEOFFREY
Playing Hurt The casualties of football. In the National Football League, it is the year of the orthopod. Football, the cognoscenti like to say, is a game of injuries, but this year, it sometimes...
Paid articleThe Locker Room Fight Continues
Byrne, Dennis
The Locker Room Fight Continues The gender-war gendarmes throw their weight around. Hoffman Estates, III. Coming soon to a girls’ locker room in a high school near you: the Obama administration’s...
Paid articleA Few Good Men and Women
macLean, aaron
A Few Good Men and Women Advocates for military gender-integration win— and they’re not finished. When Ash Carter stood at the podium on December 3 to reveal the most profound social change in...
Paid articleJingle Hell
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Jingle Hell The debasement of Christmas songs n the city where I live, one of the pop music radio stations shifts to an all-Christmas music format beginning in . . . oh, I don’t know, late...
Paid articlePlaying to Our Strengths
marLowe, ann
Playing to Our Strengths A visit to an Ohio-class submarine redesigned for counterterrorism Key West It’s one thing to read debates about Navy budget decisions and the aging of our submarine...
Paid articleBush the Elder
DUESTERBERG, THOMAS J.
Books ^Arts Bush the Elder A partisan’s perspective on a statesman’s career. This massive new biography of George H. W Bush serves as both a portrait of the man and a sort of quasi-confessional...
Paid articleUpdike in Verse
BOTTUM, JOSEPH
B A Updike in Verse Has justice been done to a lifetime of poetry? No, this is a disappointment. To read the 132 poems chosen by this volume’s editor, Christopher Carduff, is to realize that John...
Paid articleNewark's Lesson
Eden, Max
B A Newark’s Lesson How reform can help everyone except the students. Newark, New Jersey, may have been an idyllic American pastoral in the days of Philip Roth’s youth, but you wouldn’t want to...
Paid articleBurning Bridge
JOHNSON, THOMAS
B A Burning Bridge When Turkey cleansed its lands of Christians. Though the release of The Great Fire was probably timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this...
Paid articleGem of the Oceans
Gray, Alexander B.
B A Gem of the Oceans A glorious past does not guarantee a glorious future. The United States Navy, like its sister services, is first and foremost a war-fighting organization. Its reason for...
Paid articleDel Sarto Rising
GARDNER, JAMES
B A Del Sarto Rising Two shows prompt a reassessment of the Renaissance master. New York Andrea del Sarto is the perfect example of an artist for whom modernity has no use. That he was an...
Paid articleLife of a Salesman
Miller, Stephen
B A Life of a Salesman Willy Loman: rule or exception? When I first read Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which many critics consider to be one of the greatest American plays, I was puzzled....
Paid articleParody
PARODY the weekly Standard December 21, 2015 “If Donald Trump wants to be president of the United States, he’s really hurt himself.” —Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, on MSNBC Live, December...
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