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May 23, 2005 Issue

Fear Factories
By Matthew Scully
Modern farming practices are a predatory enterprise, unnaturally propped up by political influence and government subsidies. Conservatives can do better.

Fathers Into Felons
By Stephen Baskerville
No-fault divorce has criminalized husbands and undermined the institution of marriage.

What Education Crisis?
By Gregory Cochran
While it’s politically advantageous to complain about failing schools, the data don’t support the decline theory.

Social Security Shell Game
By Paul W. Schroeder
The president’s plans to remake the retirement program are a diversion from the real problem—Medicare.

Baghdad Isn’t Berlin
By Tom Switzer
Free elections and popular power entail grave risks for the Middle East.

Andrea Dworkin: Culture Warrior?
By Anthony Gancarski
What Andrea Dworkin got Right

Lost in Translation
By Steve Sailer
Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman, and the United Nations building star in “The Interpreter”

Mr. Hamilton Goes to China
By James Gass
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
by Ted C. Fishman.


The Lure of Military Society
By Richard K. Betts
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
by Andrew J. Bacevich

Bushism Imperiled
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Second-Term Slump

Fourth Estate Follies
By Taki
Beat the Press

Fourteen Days: Bolton Stands in for Bush; $300 Billion Here, $300 Billion There; CAFTA is Coming

Deep Background: Tenet Gets Punk’d, Country Goes to War; AIPAC Turns on Its Own

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