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October 6, 2003 Issue

What is Victory?
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Royal Flush
By Taki
Gambling with the Saudi royals


The Cost of Empire
By Christopher Layne
President Bush’s war policy marks the beginning of the end of America’s era of global dominance..


Zionism: A Defense
By Peter Hitchens
A prominent conservative contends that cultural and political kinship make Israel the West’s natural ally.

Benefit of the Doubt
By Fred Reed
A sympathetic agnostic ponders faith.

I Was Wrong
By Jack Strocchi
A repentant hawk trades his arrows for an olive branch.

An Empire—If You
Can Keep It
By Dominic Lieven
A British academic argues that Americans should heed history’s lessons on imperial management.

Graham Greene: The Toil of Belief
By Joseph Pearce
Graham Greene’s struggle to believe


Fourteen Days:
Bustamante’s skeletons; Dean’s “gaffe”; Sullivan’s faulty flypaper


This Con is a Pro
By Steve Sailer
Nicholas Cage puts the “art” in con artist.

Touched By God’s Little Finger
By R.J. Stove
With Puccini, trust the audience not the critics.

Dreaming of Cuba Libre
By Jonathan Chaves
Memories of a Cuban boyhood

The Greatest Story Ever Sold
By Michael S. Rose
Cracking The Da Vinci Code


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