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Vol. 023 Issue 013 (December 4 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Undoing an Epic Act of Civic Vandalism The Scrapbook knows there is little that real Americans find so tiresome as lifestyle complaints from East Coast elites who graze up and down...
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Casual
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CASUAL Privilege Your Check A notice came last week from a newspaper I subscribe to. Since “offering check payments is becoming increasingly difficult to support,” the paper is “looking to...
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Editorial
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TORRANCE, KELLY JANE
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EDITORIALS The Unipartisan Tax Bill In 1986, President Reagan signed the largest overhaul of the U.S. tax system since the New Deal. The law simplified the tax code and substantially reduced...
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'It's a Day Late, and It's a Dollar Short'
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Boyer, Peter J.
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As the reckoning over sexual abuse finally reaches Bill Clinton, with handwringing by some of his former defenders in the press and in politics, one Clinton White House veteran is following...
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Good Luck Doing the Right Thing
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SWAIM, BARTON
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In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) Daniel Bell argued that modern capitalism abetted two conflicting tendencies: It encouraged hedonistic self-gratification in the cultural sphere...
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The Inevitable Outcome of the '60s
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Allen, Henry
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The Inevitable Outcome of the ’60s Charles Manson, 1934-2017. When I got back from India in April 1969, I knew instantly everything had changed. A ’60s commando with a backpack, I could feel it...
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All Is Forgiven
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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All Is Forgiven As the partisan wheel turns. Of course the supporters of Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, are standing by their candidate, despite credible charges of...
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The Man with Trump's Peace Plan
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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Donald Trump is confident he can get a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. As one diplomat in Washington recently put it, the president is more optimistic than anyone...
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Buy Fijian
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Lincicome, Scott
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Donald Trump’s recent recap of his 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia was overshadowed by, in typical 2017 fashion, something seemingly extraneous: the president’s sip from a bottle of Fiji Water in...
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The Ultimate in Deregulation
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MECIA, TONY
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In the first 10 months of the Trump presidency, the blueprint for peeling back regulations has looked something like this: First, issue executive orders freezing overzealous excesses from the...
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King of the Jungle
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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King of the Jungle The Mayan empire of archaeologist Richard Hansen Rupert, Idaho Richard D. Hansen is the director of what is probably the largest archaeological excavation in the world,...
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Master of Motion
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GARDNER, JAMES
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Books&Arts Master of Motion The bodies at work in Michelangelo’s body of work. by James Gardner It would be hard to invent a more pallid or inadequate title than Michelangelo: Divine...
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Othering Whites
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Bowman, James
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Othering Whites
Misfits, morals, and bourgeois norms.
by James Bowman Now it can be told: In 1968, I was one of those who got “clean for Gene.” I cut my hair and put on a jacket and tie to...
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Still Shrugging
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YOUNG, CATHY
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Still Shrugging
Sixty years of Ayn Rand’s polemical novel.
by Cathy Young The Russian Revolution, the centennial of which has just passed, changed the world in more ways than one can count....
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(Super)man's Best Friend
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LENZNER, STEVEN J.
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(Super)man’s
Best Friend
The movies ignore the best thing about the
Man of Steel: his dog, Krypto. by Steven J. Lenzner In the new Justice League movie, Batman, Wonder Woman, and other...
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Irregular Loves
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McClay, B. D D.
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Irregular Loves
Adultery, friendship, and the story of a life.
by B..D. McClay What would the novel do without adultery? Invent it, one supposes. Even these days, when adultery might seem...
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Evil on the Rails
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Evil on the Rails
The details that make the detective.
by John Podhoretz Last summer, to prepare for the upcoming movie version, I reread Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express....
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Parody
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“President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for ‘a little over an hour’ Tuesday morning, discussing a range of pressing international concerns a day after Putin met with...
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Vol. 023 Issue 014 (December 11 2017)
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Vol. 023 Issue 015 (December 18 2017)
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Vol. 023 Issue 016 (December 25 2017)
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2018
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