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November 03, 2008 ISSUE

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The Right Choice? 
Traditional conservatives have no clear favorite in the November election. Is there a lesser evil? Should we vote third party? Would we be better off just staying home? TAC asked 18 conservatives, libertarians, and independent thinkers how they plan to vote and why.

News

Fourteen Days   
Paulson Makes Banks an Offer They Can’t Refuse; Iceland Meltdown; Judith Miller Goes Home

Deep Background   
Uncle Sam Enriches Uranium Market; Obama Loses Intelligence

Arts & Letters

All the Stage Is a World   
Steve Sailer
Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York”

Great Red Hope   
Freddy Gray
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis

Family Portrait   
Howard Anglin
Home by Marilynne Robinson

Grown-Ups’ Table   
Christopher Layne
America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft

Articles

Boss Mob   
H.L. Mencken
Democracy and Its Discontents

Epic Bail 
Sheldon Richman
Power Default Swap

Untied States 
John Schwenkler
The Secessionist Spirit of ’76 Lives

Democratic Dominion   
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Virginia is for Democrats

The Right to Remain Silent 
Austin W. Bramwell
Conservatism Without a Movement

Columns

An Empire We Can’t Afford   
Patrick J. Buchanan
Cut the Empire, Balance the Budget

Permission Slip-Ups   
Stuart Reid
How to Lose Friends and Aliens

Arrested Development   
Fred Reed
What Foreign Aid Can’t Buy

 

 


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Dismantling America
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The Common Good
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Paying Attention
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Why "The Hurt Locker" Hurts
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Libertarianism Is Real Conservatism
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The Root of the Problem
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A Weekend With Douglass Adair
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Where Have All the Neocons Gone?
By Jacob Heilbrunn

The Case Against Pre-Emptive War
By Paul W. Schroeder

 


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