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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK And the Oscar Goes to... Barack Obama took a break from his packed schedule of playdates with billionaires last week to go to Boston, where the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library...
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Out of Tune
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FELTEN, ERIC
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CASUAL Out of Tune It’s been over six years since IBM’s Watson bested a pair of Jeopardy! champions, and now another venerable game show is getting the man-vs.-computer treatment. Starting this...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS the weekly Standard Comey, Trump, and the GOP President Donald Trump fired James Comey just as the FBI director moved to expand and intensify the bureau’s counterintelligence...
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The Firing That Misfired
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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The Firing That Misfired Why did Trump dump Comey? Choose your story. by Michael Warren The firing of FBI director James Comey was a long time coming, to hear the insiders of the Trump...
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Trump Gets Himself in Hot Water-Again
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BARNES, FRED
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Trump Gets Himself in Hot Water—Again And Democrats dream of Watergate II. by Fred Barnes Among the swirling parts of the controversy over President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey,...
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Investigations and Prosecutions
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Eastland, Terry
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Investigations and Prosecutions The institutionalist critique of James Comey. by Terry Eastland The three people involved in effecting the termination of FBI director James Comey last week were...
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Blue on Blue in Virginia
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Blue on Blue in Virginia An unexpected Democratic race. by Andrew Ferguson Arlington, Va. It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. The party elders had got all their Democratic ducks in a row, merrily...
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Reflections on the Scandal at Choate
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SMITH, LEE
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Reflections on the Scandal at Choate What were they thinking? What were we thinking? by Lee Smith Wallingford, Conn. The Lanphier Center, dedicated in 2015, is the latest addition to the campus...
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The Higher and Higher Cost of Higher Ed
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Sengenberger, Jimmy
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The Higher and Higher Cost of Higher Ed A $1.4 trillion calamity—and how we can fix it. by Jimmy Sengenberger It’s that time of year again: Graduating high school students, consumed by...
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France Picks a Novice
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Caldwell, Christopher
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France Picks a Novice The 'frangais de sushi’ beat the frangais de souche’ By Christopher Caldwell ? veryone said it would be impossible to || I do what we did,” France’s new president,...
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The Expertocracy
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SWAIM, BARTON
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The Expertocracy What if they don't know as much as they think they do? By Barton Swaim It’s constantly surprising to me how promiscuously Americans use the term “expert.” An expert is someone...
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How Cool Was That?
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Epstein, Joseph
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Books ^Arts How Cool Was That? Not especially, in retrospect. by Joseph Epstein I don’t blow but I’m a fan. Look at me swing, ring-a-ding-ding. I even call my girlfriend ‘man.’.. . Every...
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Coming Apart
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ROSEN, MICHAEL M.
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B A Coming Apart The stresses and strains of a Europe besieged. by Michael M. Rosen Do Brexit, unbridled immigration, Russian aggression, and mounting nationalist sentiment augur the imminent end...
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Call It Sleep
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Gulliver, Katrina
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B A Call It Sleep Culture and biology unite to yield slumber. by Katrina Gulliver ? Some years ago, I read Roger Ekirch’s At Day’s Close, a book about the history of sleep. Ekirch discovered...
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Circus at Sunset
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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B A Circus at Sunset What we will miss when the Big Top leaves town. by Charlotte Allen On May 21, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will perform for the very last time, ending a...
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A Modest Proposal
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Miller, Stephen
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B A A Modest Proposal In the Trump economy, everything old can be new again. BY Stephen Miller In his address to Congress, President Trump promised that “dying industries will come roaring back...
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Go With It
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B A Go With It The willing suspension of disbelief is mandatory here. by John Podhoretz This discussion of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will feature spoilers, so I don’t want to hear any...
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Parody
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“Former president Bill Clinton and best-selling author James Patterson are collaborating on a political thriller called The President Is Missing, to be released in June 2018.” —Washington Post, May...
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Vol. 022 Issue 036 (May 29 2017)
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