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April 21, 2008 ISSUE

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Superpower Play 
Luke Coppen
China’s Olympic quest isn’t just for gold medals but for global prestige.

Articles

He Is Penn State 
Scott McConnell
Barack Obama is the big man on campus.

The Case for Recession 
Nelson Hultberg
When the economy is ailing, federal cures can be worse than the disease.

Surging to Defeat 
Andrew J. Bacevich
The Petraeus strategy buys time but not victory.

Trailing Hillary   
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Millionaire Hil plays working-class hero.

The Ron Paul Evolution 
Daniel McCarthy
The Ron Paul revolution looks to the future.

Bitter Pill 
Tom Cairney
Down and outsourced

The Democracy Business   
Ivo Mosley
Freedom rhetoric, corporatist reality

McCain: More Enemies, Please   
Daniel Larison
McCain plots Bush’s third term.

News

Fourteen Days   
Khe Sanh on the Tigris; Tibet Morality Play; NATO’s Silly Season

Feature:   
Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Lady to Barack’s Left

Deep Background   
Kenneth Timmerman’s Big Lie

Arts & Letters

Premature Burial   
Tom Piatak
The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party by Sidney Blumenthal

The Conscience of a Carnivore 
Rod Dreher
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food by Gene Baur

All the Raj   
Septimus Waugh
Vishnu’s Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion by Maria Misra

Film: No Exit   
Kara Hopkins
Ryan Phillippe in “Stop-Loss”

 

 


Lone Wolf Tickets
By Dennis Dale - November 06, 2009
Comments: 5


Books for All Seasons
By Daniel McCarthy - November 06, 2009
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Hoffman And The Failures Of The National GOP
November 04, 2009 - Comments: 11

Whom Do You (Objectively) Serve?
November 04, 2009 - Comments: 4
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P.S.
November 04, 2009

On Hiatus
November 03, 2009 - Comments: 3
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Asymmetrical Politics
November 05, 2009 - Comments: 2

Whose Divisions Are Worse?
November 05, 2009
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Why Hoffman Lost
By David Lindsay - November 07, 2009

Never Met a Poor Communist
By Jack Ross - November 07, 2009
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