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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Medicare for Everybody Else The American left, as we’ve had occasion to remark in these pages before, suffers from a paucity of new ideas. Or maybe it’s truer to...
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Casual
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CASUAL Close Shave The story goes that the head writer on The Simpsons television show walked into a meeting one morning, two small band-aids on the same cheek, another on his neck under...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Absentee Without Leave Few political controversies have lent themselves more easily to stupid misrepresentation in recent years than voter fraud. On the one hand,...
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Comment
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COMMENT FRED BARNES The radio talker who surprised Washington This is the saga of Jason Lewis. For a quarter-century, the Minnesota congressman was a talk-radio host. He...
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The Real China Threat
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MECIA, TONY
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The welcome news emerging from the G20 meeting in Argentina this month was that China and the United States had agreed to a truce in the escalating trade war the two sides have been...
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You Can't Go Home Again
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DEVOSS, DAVID
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Ventura, Calif. In most parts of the United States the holiday season brings snow, mistletoe, and mulled wine at office parties. But out here in California it’s often the season of wildfires,...
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Oversight Needed
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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. Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aldous Huxley must have been shaking his head and saying “I told you so” after Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose...
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His, Hers, Other
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Buono, Sophia
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Two years ago, Alexis Lightcap, then a student at Boyertown Area Senior High School in Pennsylvania, stumbled into a national debate when she walked...
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Senator Selfie
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Rubenstein, Adam
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Senator Selfie
Cory Booker thinks he can be all things to all people Hanover, N.H. ‘This is before and this is after. Before and after,” Cory Booker is saying on Snapchat. He’s...
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Hondurans at the Gate
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Wishardrd, Grant
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Hondurans at the Gate The caravan is overwhelmingly made up of young men
looking for work—not women and children Tijuana, Mexico By the time we catch up with the migrant...
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Cowboy in the Shade
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Teachout, Terrrry
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Books&Arts Cowboy in the Shade Why John Wayne is still an icon while Gary Cooper is forgotten. by Terry Teachout Every year, the Harris Poll used to ask Americans to name...
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Lubitsch in Our Day
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Bowmwman, James
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& A B Lubitsch in Our Day
Judging a classic Hollywood director
by the standards of the wrong era. by James Bowman There were two things wrong with the headline...
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Soldier-Philosopher
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Bahr, David
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& A B Soldier-Philosopher
The project to see Xenophon alongside his peers.
by David Bahr In his “Restatement on Xenophon’s Hiero,” Leo Strauss, the...
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Life Begins at Baron
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Epstein, Joseph
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& A B Life Begins at Baron
Marcel Proust among the grand women
of the belle époque. by Joseph Epstein At the center of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust’s masterwork, a novel of...
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Manners Maketh
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DEAN, PAUL
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, & A B Manners Maketh
From insults to mobs to cross-dressing, a look
at misbehavior in Shakespeare’s day. by Paul Dean Every reader of Shakespeare knows a few...
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For Love of Broadway
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Henderson, Amy
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& A B For Love of Broadway
The technologies that brought show tunes to the masses.
by Amy Henderson Is the success of Hamilton a one-off or does it betoken a happy...
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The Last of His K
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Fergrguson, Andrdrew
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OBITUARY The Last of His Kind George H..W. Bush, 1924-2018.
by Andrew Ferguson We are each of us a black box, and I scarcely knew him, but even I could see there were many...
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Parody
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Vol. 024 Issue 016 (December 24 2018)
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