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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK The Thugs Win Another One It was just a few weeks ago that The Scrapbook was goggling over new policies at Middlebury College regarding speakers appearing on the campus. Under the...
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Sinfoor
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Epstein, Joseph
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CASUAL Sinfood Samuel Johnson, about to tuck into a pork roast, is supposed to have said that the only thing that would make the food before him better is if he were a Jew. Stendhal, I years...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Blame It on the Gerrymander American liberals dominate this country’s cultural life. Universities, the news media, the entertainment industry, our cultural institutions—these are...
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The 'Nudge' Nobelist
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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We call it the Nobel prize in economics, but the Nobel that Richard Thaler won last week is technically a prize in “economic sciences,” and that bit of self-puffery (Oh, we’re scientists now, are...
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The Fractured GOP
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BARNES, FRED
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The Republican party is divided into two groups these days. There’s the Trump faction and its rival, the elected leaders, GOP officials, and rank-and-file antagonists of Trump. The split is not...
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Keep It Simple . . .
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MECIA, TONY
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Jennifer MacMillan is a tax preparer. Her business ebbs and flows with the season. In the months before April 15, she talks with clients and pores over the records of their financial lives. She...
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Diplomats in Chief
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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By the time you read this, it is entirely possible that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will have resigned his office in despair and frustration. He finds himself, after all, at “the breaking...
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Rational Care
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Obamacare “repeal and replace” may have failed this year, but that doesn’t mean the Affordable Care Act can’t be significantly defanged. For example, there is still time to excise the Independent...
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Pyongyang PR
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EPSTEIN, ETHAN
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The late North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-il had thousands of Hollywood movies in his personal collection, furnishing him with what he thought was a deep knowledge of a country he would never see....
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On Capitalism and Its Discontents
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ROSEN, CHRISTINE
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On Capitalism and
Its Discontents The Millennials’ love affair with socialism Oakland, Calif. ‘I want to start by acknowledging the indigenous people of this land and honor them....
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Blinded by Science?
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COST, JAY
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Blinded by Science? The Supreme Court should steer clear
of judging partisan gerrymanders Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case in which...
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The Bad War
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Morris, Stephen J.
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Books&Arts The Bad War Vietnam gets the Ken Burns treatment. by Stephen J. Morris For their latest collaboration, a 10-part documentary that premiered last month on PBS, filmmakers Ken...
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Masterful Monk
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Fleming, Colin
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B&A Masterful Monk
The centennial of the high priest
of bebop.
by Colin Fleming Most of us think of jazz as a genre predicated on extemporization—the horn man breaking into an inspired...
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Parody
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“What Did President Trump Mean by ‘Calm Before the Storm’?” —New York Times headline, October 6,...
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Vol. 023 Issue 008 (October 30 2017)
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