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 Vol. 021 Issue 041 (July 4 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Out with the Old As The Scrapbook briefly noted in February, the new offices of The Weekly Standard have afforded us a front-row seat to the ongoing demolition of the Washington Post...
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The Swastika in My Basement
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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CASUAL The Swastika in My Basement On Memorial Day, I was in my basement looking for a cat. (Yes, it was a cat, as opposed to my cat—but that’s another story.) Anyway, I was sorting through the...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS theweekly Standard Whafs in a Name? Barack Obama’s habit of avoiding Islamic nomencla-ture and highlighting American gun violence when-ever Muslim terrorists strike is surely, in...
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Who Speaks for the Party?
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COST, JAY
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Who Speaks for the Party? The novel problem of a presidential nominee who can’t make a cogent argument. by Jay Cost Our Constitution distributes power broadly across three branches of government,...
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Life in the Slow Lane
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BARNES, FRED
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Life in the Slow Lane Good luck getting from Point A to Point B in the nation’s capital. by Fred Barnes Drive over the Potomac River from Virginia into Washington across the 14th Street Bridge,...
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Be Careful What You Vote For
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Godwin, Mike; Neeley, Josiah
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Be Careful What You Vote For Lessons from the Austin ride-sharing debacle. by Mike Godwin & Josiah Neeley Rarely has a vote had such an immediate effect. On May 7, Austin residents elected not to...
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Stimulus: The Sequel
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MOORE, STEPHEN
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Stimulus: The Sequel Hillary promises to revive a failed policy. by Stephen Moore In the wake of the miserable May jobs report and the even more miserable first-quarter GDP numbers, Hillary...
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An Anti-Terror Success Story
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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An Anti-Terror Success Story ISIS, Kosovo, and the New York Times. by Stephen Schwartz Pristina, Kosovo Late last month, the New York Times published a lengthy report from the Balkan repub-lic of...
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Jesus' Wife?
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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Jesus’ Wife? The final debunking By Charlotte Allen Jesus’ wife has finally taken the sad step that cul-minates many a marriage: the gruesome divorce. Harvard Divinity School professor and...
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The Somme, 1916
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LOCONTE, JOSEPH
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The Somme, 1916 Funeral of a great myth By Joseph Loconte At 7 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the British Army unleashed a hellish assault against German positions on the Western Front in France, along...
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The Mouse That Roared
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Henderson, Amy
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Books ^’Arts The Mouse That Roared Mickey ^Mouse, idea and image by amy henderson Garry Apgar introduces his book by stating that Mickey Mouse “has been a part of our mental and emotional...
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Writers by Trade
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Green, Dominic
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B A Writers by Trade Men (and women) of letters in England. by Dominic Green ell me what you like,” John Ruskin wrote in 1860, “and I’ll teil you what you are.” By his tastes, D. J. Taylor is...
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Unbeautiful Minds
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Ehrenfeld, Temma
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B A Unbeautiful Minds Famous, yes, but all too human. by Temma Ehrenfeld Diagnosing the illnesses of historical figures is a strange activity. I’m not really sure I approve of pic-turing the dead...
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Cleansing Effect
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sChaRPeR, diane
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B A Cleansing Effect A novel of the siege of Sarajevo. by Diane Scharper This is 85-year-old Edna O’Brien’s first novel in 10 years, and in interviews, she has said that she found it difficult to...
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Pilgrim's Progress
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SWICK, THOMAS
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B A Pilgrim’s Progress The middle-aged version of a voyage of discovery. by Thomas Swick In the first sentence of the first essay in this collection, Geoff Dyer confesses that on his way to...
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Paths Not Taken
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LEHRER, ELI
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B A Paths Not Taken Dana Gioia’s poetry from memory. by Eli Lehrer If angst, lovesickness, and ennui alone made for half-decent poetry, just about every moody high school student would be in the...
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The Fighting Admiral
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CALLO, JOSEPH F.
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B A The Fighting Admiral William F. Halsey in peace and war. BY JOSEPH F. CäLLO here do we get such people?” That’s a question generally posed when we are witness to astonishing military skill...
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Hungry for Love
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FORBES, MALCOLM
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B A Hungry for Love A life as dramatic as the novelist’s inventions. by Malcolm Forbes This is the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte, and to celebrate it comes a biography by the...
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First Among Equals
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Kosar, Kevin r.
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B A First Among Equals How George Washington became George Washington. by Kevin R. Kosar To see it, you need to ascend to the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and wend your way to...
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Fathers in Chief
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TROY, TEVI
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B A Fathers in Chief A revealing look at presidents as parents. BY TEVI TROY Vice President Henry Wal-lace once observed of his boss, Franklin Delano Roo-sevelt, “He doesn’t know any man and no...
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Room for Murder
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BREEN, JON L.
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B A Room for Murder Mayhem and mystery in Victorian Edinburgh. BY JON L. BREEN The locked-room mystery was a favorite subcategory of detective stories in the early 20th century. By 1941, it...
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Being There
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Heitman, Danny
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B A Being There The divine, and mundane, world of Annie Dillard. by Danny Heitman Last year, at age 70, Annie Dillard received a National Medal for the Arts and Humanities for, as the citation...
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Parody
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“Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it’s done in the past, citing Donald Trump’s controversial comments...
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Vol. 021 Issue 042 (July 18 2016)
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Vol. 021 Issue 043 (July 25 2016)
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