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August 29, 2005 Issue

Defining Conservatism Down
By Austin Bramwell
As the Right’s popularity has grown, its intellectual challenge to the Left has diminished.

Bush vs. Benedict
By Daniel McCarthy
Neoconservatives want Catholics to choose the president’s foreign policy over the pope’s.

Republic Undone
By John Lukacs
From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, the last quarter century has seen the relentless rise of the national-security state.

Britain’s Blowback
By Stuart Reid
Invade the world, invite the world doesn’t work for Britain either.

Made in Japan
By Eamonn Fingleton
Japan’s managed trade maintains jobs and technological edge.

Violence Against Families
By Stephen Baskerville
New domestic-abuse legislation does violence to the rule of law.

Two Women & a War
By Owen Harries
Does anyone remember deterrence?

Fourteen Days: John Roberts, Mystery Man; Mehlman Says Republicans Are Racists; Allen-Tancredo ’08?

Deep Background: Italy Expects Attack; Closing the Borders in Europe; Pakistan’s New Taliban

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From Pimp to Lyrical Gangsta
By Steve Sailer
Pimping made easy in “Hustle & Flow”

Inviting the Outsider In
By Justin Raimondo
Dreaming to Some Purpose: An Autobiography
by Colin Wilson

Counterfeiting the American Dream
By James Gass
Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
by Pat Choate

Conspiracy Theory
By Peter J. Lynch
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
by Byron York

Philosophical Roots of the Iraq War
By Patrick J. Buchanan
How the Idea of Progress leads to war

The Other Cruelest Month
By Taki
Don’t call it the silly season

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