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August 1, 2005 Issue

Failure Is An Option
By Christopher Layne
Withdrawing from Iraq would be less damaging to American security than “staying the course.”

Leaving No Child Left Behind
By W. James Antle III
The grassroots revolt against Bush’s centralizing education-reform plan.

Community Centered
By William S. Lind
New Urbanism—not just for statists anymore

Property Wrongs
By Steven Anderson
The Supreme Court’s eminent-domain decision amounts to robbery under law.

Life, Liberty, and a Guaranteed Pension?
By Carl F. Horowitz
Social Security isn’t the only retirement scheme going broke.

Our Afghan Winter
By Eric S. Margolis
Afghanistan: no victory in sight

Free Trade’s Human Toll
By James Gass
CAFTA means more misery than prosperity for Central America

Fourteen Days: Mexicans Call It Amnesty; Newt Predicts the Future; Larry Franklin’s Gulag

Deep Background: In Case of Emergency, Nuke Iran; Give Tenet Another Medal; Iraq’s Police Brutality

In the Name of the Father
By Steve Sailer
Fathers and sons in “Broken Flowers” and “The Beautiful Country”


Liberty and Order in the Slave Society
By Daniel McCarthy
Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society
by Adam L. Tate

Middle East Paradigm Shift
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East
by Leon Hadar

Works Without Faith Are Dead
By Chilton Williamson Jr.
A Matter of Opinion
by Victor S. Navasky

Judgment Day
By Patrick J. Buchanan
What the Judges War is all about

Summer Doldrums
By Taki
Lyndon Baines Bush.

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