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August 01, 2005 ISSUE

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Articles

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

Community Centered   
William S. Lind
New Urbanism

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

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

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

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

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

News

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

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

Arts & Letters

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

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

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

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

Columns

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

Summer Doldrums   
Taki
Lyndon Baines Bush.

 

 


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