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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK More Panic from Politico and the Post Last week saw a delightfully breathless editorial in the Washington Post, followed by an even more preposterous companion piece at Politico,...
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Casual
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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CASUAL Artificial Intelligence Flocking. No one outside the millinery trade—ladies’ haberdashery—should ever have occasion to use the word, but there it is: a category of artificial Christmas...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS The Party of Liberty “At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with...
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It's Frustrating at the Top
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COST, JAY
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It’s Frustrating at the Top A system designed to thwart presidential ambition. As a candidate, Donald Trump promised sweeping change in the way Washington functions. He would tell voters that the...
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The Courting of Pro-life Leaders
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BARNES, FRED
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The Courting of Pro-life Leaders What the new president will owe them. Donald Trump issued a “Dear Pro-Life Leader” letter in September. “As we head into the final stretch of the campaign, the...
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Bioethics in the Age of Trump
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Bioethics in the Age of Trump An unconventional approach to a contentious issue. Ever since his unexpected victory, the media have been obsessing over what a Donald Trump presidency will mean...
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Don't Blame the Message
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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Don’t Blame the Message Hillary had more than one; they just didn’t work. Having run twice, and unsuccessfully, for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now an official object lesson in how...
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I Came Here for an Argument
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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I Came Here for an Argument Pay no attention to the scoreboard, we’re number one. The election may be over, but the arguments and recriminations are still going strong. Which brings up an...
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Credibility Counts
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Kirchick, James
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Credibility Counts No matter what Obama and his minions say On January 12, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivered a speech in Washington, the reverberations of which were felt on the...
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The 'Trump Effect'
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Green, Dominic
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The 'Trump Effect’ Europe got there first A historian can be wise after the fact, but a political analyst must be wise before it. Most commentators failed to detect the signs of Donald Trump’s...
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The Liberal Ideological Complex
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BERGNER, JEFF
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The Liberal Ideological Complex Insidious, powerful, and under the radar .. vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.” (Winston Churchill) In 1961 President...
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Five-Alarm Fire
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Gedmin, Jeff rey
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Books ^Arts Five-Alarm Fire When the telephone rings at three in the morning.. . Who has time for history, and a guide to managing disasters of the future, when such vast, self-inflicted...
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Talking Heads
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Loon, André van
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B A Talking Heads The (social) life of the mind in England. Fundamentally, the world of sensory experience is raw and ruthless. Chaos abounds, and events flow into one another without rhyme or...
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He Liked Ike
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BARNES, FRED
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B A Honor and Glory The distinction can be historically significant. After a presidential election year when the word “character” was bandied all over the place—often by people possessing very...
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Waugh's Gift
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VALIUNAS, ALGIS
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B A Waugh’s Gift Great novelist, less-than-great human being. Novelist, travel writer, essayist, and biographer Evelyn Waugh (19031966), the 50th anniversary of whose death rolled around this...
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World Apart
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Mundahl, Erin
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B A World Apart The map of Middle Europe, redrawn by Ursula K. Le Guin. How do you write about a world you have never seen? It’s a strange question for a writer of science fiction to ask, yet...
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Eternal Quadrangle
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YOUNG, CATHY
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B A Eternal Quadrangle The many versions of ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses.’ Les Liaisons dangereuses, the 1782 novel of sexual intrigue by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, has become one of the most...
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A Star Is Born
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B A A Star Is Born Damien Chazelle succeeds where bigger names have failed. La La Land should have been a disaster. Every American movie musical it resembles has been. The plot of La La Land...
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Parody
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“Van Jones: Only a ‘Love Army’ will conquer Trump” —Rolling Stone, December 6,...
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2018
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