June 19, 2006 Issue

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
By Chilton Williamson Jr.
Pragmatism and partisanship combine to stifle the spirit of independent thinking in America.

Reach Out and Tap Someone
By James Bovard
If the Bush administration is telling the truth when it says that no innocent Americans’ phones are tapped, we must all be guilty.

A New Democrat
By W. James Antle III
James Webb was Reagan’s Navy Secretary—and now wants to be Virginia’s Democratic senator.

Prophets in Their Own Land
By Michael C. Desch
Analyzing the smear campaign against scholars who question U.S. policy toward Israel 

Khaddafi’s Carrots
By M.J. Rosenberg
Bush reviles Hamas, embraces Khaddafi

Dynasty Through Diversity
By Steve Sailer
Why Bush wants to import 66 million immigrants

The Blog Ate My Life
By Diana Moon
Blogging behind enemy lines

Fighting the Last War
By William S. Lind
Military reform requires more than Rumsfeld’s resignation.

The Church of Dan Brown
By Steve Sailer
Ron Howard’s “Da Vinci Code”

Founding Principals
By Daniel McCarthy
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood