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October 01, 2009 ISSUE

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Terror’s Tipping Point 
Ed Warner
Loose nukes, roving terrorists, and the world’s most wanted man are just a few of the dangers that make Pakistan “the most important country in the world.”

Articles

Dr. Doom Runs for Senate 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Peter Schiff predicted the meltdown, but will that be enough to beat Chris Dodd?

Burn Victims 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
In Iraq, our soldiers discover there’s no waste too toxic for Uncle Sam to incinerate.

The Money Monopoly 
Ron Paul
How the Federal Reserve bails out bankers by destroying the dollar

These Colors Run Red 
Andrew J. Bacevich
Repeal the Carter Doctrine

Every Man a God-King 
Daniel McCarthy
The trouble with people power

The Elusive Oakeshott 
Kenneth Minogue
The elusive Michael Oakeshott

Coming Up Aces 
Freddy Gray
Online poker lobby likes its cards

Forced Out 
Tom Streithorst
More and bigger weapons don’t bring greater power.

United States of Paranoia 
David Brown
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re right-wing.

Imagination Takes Flight 
Neil Clark
The humane values of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Arts & Letters

Continental Drift 
Rod Liddle
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell

Super K and the Perils of Power 
William B. Quandt
Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year by Alistair Horne

Demolition Derbyshire 
Patrick Allitt
We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism by John Derbyshire

Failing the IQ Test 
Jason Richwine
Intelligence and How to Get It by Richard E. Nisbett

Columns

Liberal-in-Law   
Stuart Reid

Shepherd Watch   
Eve Tushnet

Aw, Canada 
Bill Kauffman

Front Lines   
Protesting the Protesters; Planned Parenthood’s Quid Pro Choice; Robert Novak, Patriotic Conservative

Deep Background   
Jane Harman’s Revenge; Metrics Don’t Win Wars

Old & Right   
Henry Hazlitt on the Politics of Envy

 

 


Too Much or Too Little Democracy?
By Oskar Chomicki - November 20, 2009
Comments: 2


TGIF: The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
By Sheldon Richman - November 20, 2009
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A Sure Path To Self-Destruction (II)
November 21, 2009 - Comments: 6

A Sure Path To Self-Destruction
November 20, 2009 - Comments: 9
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P.S.
November 04, 2009

On Hiatus
November 03, 2009 - Comments: 4
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The Paradox of "Self-Government"
November 21, 2009

The Trouble With Disraeli
November 13, 2009 - Comments: 4
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Senator Hoffman?
By David Lindsay - November 21, 2009

Are The Republicans Stupak?
By David Lindsay - November 20, 2009
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