November 21, 2005 Issue

Everyone’s Entitled
By Doug Bandow
The pressures of an aging population and overdrawn retirement system push the nation toward a bleak fiscal future.

The Old Country
By Pavel Kohout
The demands of the welfare state discourage young people from caring for their elderly parents—and from becoming parents themselves.

The Weekly Standard’s War
By Scott McConnell
Not often does a political magazine get exactly what it wants.

Forging the Case for War
By Philip Giraldi
The Plame case may go beyond the outing of a CIA agent to the fabrication of the documents that led us to invade Iraq.

George “Wilson” Bush
By Michael C. Desch
America’s Liberal Tradition is not for export.

Know Thine Enemy
By Eric S. Margolis
Falling into Saddam’s trap

Chandler’s Long Shadow
By Steve Sailer
Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”

American Revolutionist
By Daniel McCarthy
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey J. Kaye