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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK The Antonio de Spinola Award Like many prizes offered by The Scrapbook, the Antonio de Spinola Award is not bestowed on a regular basis. This is not because The Scrapbook is...
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Casual
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LABASH, MATT
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CASUAL Gone but Not Forgotten I’ve never been one for elaborate New Year’s rituals. I don’t thump the walls with bread to rid the house of evil spirits, as some do in Ireland. Nor swing caged...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Neither Trump Nor Hillary Jerusalem I’ve spent much of this week in Jerusalem discussing with young Israelis the subject of America—both the classics of our political thought and the...
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The Religion of Trump
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Eastland, Terry
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The Religion of Trump Will evangelicals balk at pulling the lever for him? by Terry Eastland The Constitution provides that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any...
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Peace Breaks Out
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BARNES, FRED
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Peace Breaks Out A new comity among House Republicans. by Fred Barnes Those happy days for Democrats and the media—when House Republicans were angry with each other and divided—are over. The...
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Co-ed Boot Camp
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macLean, aaron
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Co-ed Boot Camp Who will defend the Marines? by Aaron MacLean Marines are made at a recruit depot located amid the swamps of Parris Island, tethered to the rest of the Carolina coast by a single...
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A Real Dialogue for a Change
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YOUNG, CATHY
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A Real Dialogue for a Change Which may be a first on the issue of campus rape hysteria. by Cathy Young A panel on “Grappling with Campus Rape” was part of the “Hot Topic” program at the American...
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Will Rahm Resign?
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Byrne, Dennis
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Will Rahm Resign? Who cares? Chicago’s problems run much deeper than one bad mayor. by Dennis Byrne Rahm Emanuel still is Chicago’s mayor. So far, anyway. Not that any serious students of the...
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A War of Choice
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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A War of Choice The Obama administration welcomed a fight with the Little Sisters of the Poor. by Joseph Bottum The Little Sisters of the Poor are headed to the Supreme Court this year, seeking...
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Don't Abandon All Hope
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Brannon, Ike
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Don’t Abandon All Hope Baby steps to comprehensive tax reform. by Ike Brannon The main goal for any tax reform that merits being called a reform is to boost economic growth. The way to do that,...
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An Idea Whose Time Never Came
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TETI, DENNIS
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An Idea Whose Time Never Came Jack Kemp’s enterprise zones still deserve a try. by Dennis Teti GK. Chesterton famously remarked, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has...
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No, You Decide
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SMITH, CAMERON
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No, You Decide A rare, and instructive, case of appropriators relinquishing power. by Cameron Smith It’s been half a decade since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which had been drilling the...
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Unchecked Power
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FELTEN, ERIC
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Unchecked Power The regulatory tax problem By Eric Felten The Washington Post editorialized in November that it was time to regulate how much sugar Americans consume. Sugar causes obesity, which...
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Big Budget Items
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Books & Arts Big Budget Items The starchitectural landscape of Frank Gehry. by Andrew Ferguson Building Art The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger Knopf, 528 pp., $35 If you...
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On the Bibliohunt
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Henderson, Amy
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B&A On the Bibliohunt There’s gold in them thar shelves. by Amy Henderson Rare Books Uncovered True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry Voyageur Press, 264 pp.,...
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Conflict and Interest
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Marx, Claude R.
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B&A Conflict and Interest A Washington muckraker writes into the sunset. by Claude R. Marx Washington Merry-Go-Round The Drew Pearson Diaries, 1960-1969 edited by Peter Hannaford Potomac Books,...
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New and Improved
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LEHRER, ELI
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B&A New and Improved The late medieval epic gets an English update. by Eli Lehrer A Double Sorrow A Version of Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw Norton, 240 pp., $29.95 To the medieval...
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Ah, Wilderness!
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B&A Ah, Wilderness! Early-19th-century capitalism takes a $135 million hit. BY John Podhoretz The Revenant Directed by Alejandro G. Inárritu The Revenant is beautifully photographed. Really....
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People's Sexiest Democrat Alive
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PARODY “Iowa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hillary Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the...
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