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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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Conflating Smug with Science
The Scrapbook has always had great admiration for scientific achievement. However, in recent years we’ve been repeatedly hectored about whether we are sufficiently...
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Casual
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Going the Distance
My earliest memory of running—of making an effort to run as fast as I could—comes from first grade. There were a lot of footraces at school that year. They were short...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS
Donald J. Obama
On Tuesday, April 26, Donald Trump won impressive primary victories in five states, victories that would seem to make it difficult (though not yet impossible)...
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Republican Party Down
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COST, JAY
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Republican
Party Down
Trump and the decaying GOP. As the Trump campaign steamrolls ahead, most of us are still scratching our heads. How could this have happened? The usual answer focuses on...
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The Kingdom Conned
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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The KingdomConned Doing the old economic development flim-flam. The part of Vermont that is called “the Northeast Kingdom” includes three counties and fewer than 70,000 people and does not...
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Trump Takes to the Teleprompter
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BARNES, FRED
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Trump Takes to
the Teleprompter
While Cruz flails. Differences between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump go beyond their personalities and opinions. One sprang up when Cruz last week named Carly...
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Remedial Finance
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Riley, James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer
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Remedial Finance The outsized cost of playing academic catch-up. Are there really too many highachieving college applicants? Ted O’Neill, dean of admissions at the University of Chicago for...
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Wide Awake in Naptown
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Deaton, Chris
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Wide Awake
in Naptown
Hoosiers get the political full-court press. Indianapolis Monument Circle is a brickroad roundabout in the heart of Indiana’s capital. It is a spacious road with...
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Thinking the Unthinkable
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Ward, James W. Ceaser and Oliver
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Thinking
the Unthinkable
How to survive a Trump presidency As a futurist, Herman Kahn’s job was to think about the unthinkable. And the unthinkable subject in the 1960s was thermonuclear war....
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The UFO Enthusiasts
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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The UFO Enthusiasts
Roswell, McMinnville, and . . . Hillary Clinton? In 1995 the city of Roswell, New Mexico, population just trailing 50,000 then as now, discovered that it had the...
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Look at Mark Rothko
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MULLARKEY, MAUREEN
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Books&Arts
Look at Mark Rothko
Is there less here than meets the eye? BY MAUREEN MULLARKEY Impresario of his father’s legacy, Christopher Rothko plays Vasari to papa Mark (19031970)....
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Getting Realpolitik
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SCHMITT, GARY
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BA Getting Realpolitik
The fall and rise of a protean approach to statecraft. BY GARY SCHMITT A good historian is inevitably a revisionist. Why write if you have nothing new to offer?...
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Sensational Novelist
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LODGE, SARA
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BA Sensational Novelist
The mysterious mastery of Wilkie Collins. BY SARA LODGE Wilkie Collins was quite literally a colorful character. His doctor described his attire at dinner as...
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Birth Pains
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Short, Edward
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BA Birth Pains
A centennial revision of Ireland’s Easter Rebellion. BY EDWARD SHORT No history cries out for revision more insistently than Irish history. And no event in Irish history...
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Sinner/Saint
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Freeman, Frank
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The lesser-known, but no less memorable, Inkling. BY FRANK FREEMAN In many ways, for those who dislike the apologetics of C. S. Lewis and/or the fantasy of J. R. R....
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But I Repeat Myself
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QUEENAN, JOE
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BA But I Repeat Myself
Posterity extends George Santayana an offer he can’t refuse. BY JOE QUEENAN George Santayana was sitting in his stately, well-appointed Cambridge home when the...
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Parody
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PARODY “John Kasich said Monday he’s not the desperate one on the campaigntrail. Donald Trump is.” —CNN.com, April 25,...
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Vol. 021 Issue 034 (May 16 2016)
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Vol. 021 Issue 035 (May 23 2016)
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Vol. 021 Issue 036 (May 30 2016)
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