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 Vol. 022 Issue 004 (October 3 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK That’s Not Funny New York Times columnist Ross Douthat last week wrote an extremely controversial column about a topic that wouldn’t seem so controversial on the face of it:...
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Casual
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MATUS, VICTORINO
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CASUAL The Clean-Plate Club Towards the end of a recent lunch, I found myself ogling a friend’s bowl of chicken pista korma. He was done, but there were still a few tender chunks of chicken...
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Editorial
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EDITORIAL Obama’s Terror ‘Narrative’ Within a few hours on September 17, a pressure cooker bomb exploded in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York injuring 31 people, a man stabbed 10 people in...
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We Got Lucky . . . This Time
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JOSCELYN, THOMAS
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At approximately 9:35 a.m. on Saturday, September 17, a garbage can exploded along the route of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps Charity 5K Race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Fortunately, no one...
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Virginia Slim: The Race Tightens
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BARNES, FRED
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Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, addressed a local group in Fredericksburg, Virginia, last week and talked about Donald Trump’s chances of...
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Electoral Mapmaking
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Anderson, Jeffffrey H.
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One of the most pervasive myths in American politics is that a “Big Blue Wall” will protect Democratic presidential nominees, perhaps even those who lose the popular vote. In truth, this electoral...
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Grand New Party?
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Grand New Party? Evan McMullin hopes to start a conservative counter-reformation. ‘We need to start voting for leaders whom we actually want to see in office,” Evan McMullin says as we sit...
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So You Want to Write a Novel
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Green, Dominic
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We need to talk about Lionel Shriver. On September 8, the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin and several other novels gave the keynote speech at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival. Shriver had wanted...
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The Taiwan Strait Freezes
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EPSTEIN, ETHAN
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The Taiwan Strait Freezes Beijing snubs Taipei. Taibo City, Taiwan The Jadeite Cabbage, an exquisite 19th-century jade carving made to look like a head of Chinese cabbage (I’m not really...
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California's Woeful Republicans
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Fleming, Matttthew
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Sacramento Only in the craziest election cycle in recent memory could the candidate hoping to have Republicans carry her to victory in California’s open Senate seat be a Latina Democrat. Both...
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Reversing Decline
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Donnelly, Thomas
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Reversing Decline The example of Elizabethan England Is America in decline? The question has been catnip for the chattering classes for decades, especially during the Obama presidency. And now...
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The Original Deplorables
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Norman, Geoffffrey
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The Original Deplorables Obama misunderstands populism The president was irritated, and it showed. This was back in June, and he was answering questions from the press, something he normally...
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Bon Appétit, America
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Henderson, Amy
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Books&Arts Bon Appétit, America
How the French Chef captured the zeitgeist.
In 2006, Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France was a rousing bestseller. The story of how a “6-foot-2-inch,...
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Stalin's Second String
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KLEHR, HARVEY
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&AB Stalin’s Second String
Noel Field, the spy who stayed out in the cold.
by Harvey Klehr Noel Field was never a very consequential spy. Unlike Alger Hiss or Larry Duggan, fellow Soviet...
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The Bee's Needs
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Goldman, Devorah
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&AB The Bee’s Needs
When honeybees talked, one man listened.
by Devorah Goldman A.group of British researchers recently discovered that they could tell the “life stories” of bees by using...
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Lost in the Stars
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Shifletttt, Dave
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Lost in the Stars
Country awaits its (musical) messiah.
by Dave Shiflett Many an aging hack writer (ahem) regrets not having worked harder in math class, or in what was once called “shop,” which...
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Out of Service
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Dahlie, Scotttt
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Out of Service
A lifetime follows one summer afternoon.
by Scott Dahlie Mothering Sunday begins with the phrase “Once upon a time,” but in Graham Swift’s newest fiction, fairy tales are not...
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The Gibson Quandary
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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The Gibson Quandary
Good work from a bad man raises certain dilemmas. I watched Blood Father—a tough, smart, violent little movie available on demand—on my iPad this past weekend. It works as...
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Parody
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“Microaggressions...........are comments, snubs or insults that communicate derogatory or negative messages that might not be intended to cause harm but are targeted at people based on their...
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Vol. 022 Issue 005 (October 10 2016)
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Vol. 022 Issue 006 (October 17 2016)
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Vol. 022 Issue 007 (October 24 2016)
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Vol. 022 Issue 008 (October 31 2016)
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2018
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