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 Vol. 022 Issue 004 (October 3 2016)
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Vol. 022 Issue 005 (October 10 2016)
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK To Live and Die in Colorado This summer, The Scrapbook was visiting family at a Fourth of July celebration in downtown Denver. We were settling in and getting ready to watch the...
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Casual
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MacLean, Emily Schultheis
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CASUAL Hillingdon Street Blues Maps are a mystery to me, and my worthlessness in navigating has been a family joke for two decades. Google Maps and turn-by-turn smartphone guidance were a...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Stan “No one has any other way left but—upward.” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, address at Harvard,June 8, 1978) After this ghastly campaign, whose ghastliness reached new heights with the...
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Better Luck Next Time
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BARNES, FRED
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Better Luck Next Time Can Trump get his footing in the next debate? When the first presidential debate in 1984 ended, I walked across the stage to shake Ronald Reagan’s hand. I had been one of...
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He's No Mitt
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Riley, Naomi Schaefer
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He's No Mitt Where did the Trump stakes go? How did Donald Trump lose the Mormons? According to a recent Pew poll, only 48 percent of Mormons now describe themselves as Republicans, compared with...
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The Prognostication Follies
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COST, JAY
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The Prognostication Follies The unbearable strangeness of 2016. This election has made all the so-called political experts look like fools. Most of us thought that Trump would not enter the...
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All Quiet(ed) on the Eastern Front
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WALDRON, ARTHUR
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All Quiet(ed) on the Eastern Front Making a mess by making nice with China. £ reat power competition” has ¦ -—.just become a phrase that the Pentagon is forbidden to use when speaking of the...
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Raptors on the Mountain
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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Raptors on the Mountain Eagle-eyed for eagled skies. Putney, Vt. We were at 1,600 feet, surrounded by a sky that held scattered clouds but no danger of rain, with the Connecticut River Valley...
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Do Less Harm
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LEHRER, ELI
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Do Less Harm The vapid opposition to vaping. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) hates e-cigarettes. The devices, he says, are little more than an evil plot, “the new frontier in tobacco companies’...
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A Marxist Manifesto
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LOCONTE, JOSEPH
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A Marxist Manifesto The birth certificate of the European Union. Ventotene, Italy On this ragged and remote island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, when Europe was in the throes of the Second World War, a...
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Greens Make Green
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Nassif, Tom
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Greens Make Green The business of environmentalism. In truth, farmers and environmentalists should be allies. The environmental and agricultural communities have more in common than conventional...
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Les Déplorables
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Les Deplorables The French right is discovering that there are more and more things you can't say A country is heading for trouble when its most popular writers worry that their words will land...
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Good Luck With Your Predictions
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Good Luck With Your Predictions The year the ‘laws’ of politics were repealed A lifetime ago—on June 14, 2015, for example—people who worked in politics and elections thought that they understood...
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He Liked Ike
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BARNES, FRED
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Books ^Arts He Liked Ike Unearthing the Eisenhower-Reagan connection. A footnote in a book about Ronald Reagan led Gene Kopelson to drop by the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, in the fall...
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Departure Lounge
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Pritchard, William H.
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B A Departure Lounge In the fictional world of Louis Begley. The recent appearance of two generically related novels by Louis Begley justifies a look back at the career of this extraordinary...
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Social Kapital
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MARKS, JONATHAN
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B A Social Kapital How to win a date with Karl Marx. Moira Weigel opens with the man she was seeing when she began her investigation into courtship: “For weeks he had been trying to break off our...
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Rich With Ideas
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Wolf, Charles Jr.
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B A Rich With Ideas For the betterment of mankind, it’s the thought that counts. A casual glance at Bourgeois Equality could convey a mistaken impression that the book is for coffee-table...
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Comic Relief
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Wilson, James Matthew
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B A Comic Relief The poetical vision(s) of A. M. Juster. AM. Juster is the pseudonym of a long-suffering Washington civil servant whose posts included a humorless tenure as commissioner of Social...
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Resolved to Play
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GUASPARI, DAVID
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B A Resolved to Play Confronting the keyboard, and reality. I can’t remember not being a mediocre piano player, though there must have been a time when I was worse. I wasn’t born vamping through...
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Parody
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“The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough.” —Donald Trump, September 26, 2016 PARODY October 10,...
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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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