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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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Where’s the Welcome Mat?
Ever on the lookout for irony, The Scrapbook’s attention was drawn the other day to two stories—conveniently situated next to one another— on the front page of the...
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Casual
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FELTEN, ERIC
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Goldwater’s Blowout
Hillary Clinton could do worse than to take up the trombone. That was one of the conso. lations Barry Goldwater pursued after the epic thumping he took in the 1964...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS
Taipei Calling
Thirty-seven years is a long time to wait for a phone call. That’s how it must have felt to the Taiwanese people when their president, Tsai Ing-wen, had a...
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The Not-talking Cure
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SCHULMAN, SAM
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The Not-TalkingCure Worse than the disease it targets. by Sam Schulman Censorship was once so simple. Kings, emperors, hierarchs, dictators stifled free expres.sion to protect their authority....
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Rattling the EU Cage
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Green, Dominic
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Rattling the EU Cage
The voters are restless. The European state system, Leon Trotsky wrote in 1932, resembles “the ‘system’ of cages in an impoverished provincial zoo.” The European Union, the...
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Obamacare
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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. The sooner the better. It’s the opportunity Republicans have been awaiting for six years, which invites the obvious ques.tion: Are they going to screw it up? .gress and...
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Always in Vogue
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Always in Vogue The airbrushed crossroads of fashion and politics. Vogue magazine and the drab world of politics are not much alike. They are prose vs. poetry, fact vs. fiction, words vs. music,...
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The Day America Went Global
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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The Day America
Went Global
Pearl Harbor and beyond T
..ber 7 is, indeed, a day that has lived “in infamy.” So the president and the man who will follow him into the White House both issued...
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The CIA, Post-Obama
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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The CIA, Post-Obama
What we don’t know can hurt us When the new casts out the old, an incoming administration has the opportunity to review its predeces..ligence Agency. When this is done,...
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Trump and Trade
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Trump and Trade
There are worse things than protectionism P
rotectionism, I once said to Irving Kristol, is a bad idea. It benefits producers, but it harms .ten that the welfare of consumers...
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Hatred for Thee
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BecK, Stefan
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Hatred for Thee
In the wake of tragedy, the impulse to forgive. by Stefan beck ‘I bear the creature no ill-will,” William Hazlitt wrote of a spider in his 1826 essay, “On the...
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It's a Battlefield
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A poet’s austere rendering of the national drama. Over seven decades, Helen Pinkerton has published a small number of poems admirable for their aus.tere intellectual...
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Canary in the Union
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On Their Feet
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How the dance world deals with the politics of succession. by chriStoPher atamian New York C
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Art on the Line
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Bleak Houses
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The novelty of a tragedy without a happy ending. In the great and overlooked 1991 comedy Soapdish, a television executive muses on the work of his network’s greatest...
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Parody
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“Donald Trump Asks a Third General to Join His Administration” —Vanity Fair headline, December 7,...
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Vol. 022 Issue 016 (December 26 2016)
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2017
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