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October 23, 2006 Issue

Size Matters
By Gregory Cochran
Advocates of a military strike on Iran exaggerate the threat.

Exit Stage Right
By W. James Antle III
Many conservatives believe they stand to gain if Republicans lose this fall.

Christians in the Crossfire
By Doug Bandow
In making the case for war, American evangelicals ignored the plight of Iraqi believers.

On the Offense
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Even the latest dismal intelligence estimate fails to shake Bush’s faith-based foreign policy.

George Winston Bush?
By Leon Hadar
Bush is no Churchill, and pretending bin Laden is Hitler won’t make this the next good war.

Tour de France
By R.J. Stove
Vive La France—the land of decentralization and high culture

Pieties of Silence
By Jeremy Beer
Philip Rieff counted
the terrible cost of Western man’s abandonment of tradition.

Reconnecting With the Reality-Based Community
By Scott McConnell
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman

Kingfish for a Day
By Steve Sailer
Sean Penn in “All the King’s Men”

Riveting Account
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon by James Sullivan

Separation of Church and Truth
By David Gordon
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan

Sneak Previews
November 6, 2006 Issue

GOP and Man at Yale
The young Right on campus should take its lessons from Kirk and Weaver—not Hannity and Coulter.
By Daniel McCarthy

Breaking the Silence
John Mearsheimer finds important allies.
By Scott McConnell


New Deal for U.S. Manufacturers
By Patrick J. Buchanan
U.S. companies need a level playing field.

Racist Revving & Other Inanities
By Taki
Revving up political correctness

Fourteen Days: Blessed Are the Peacemakers; McCain Gives in to Torture; Throwing Flowers—in Thailand

Deep Background: Nuclear Contingency Plan for Iran

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