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November 17, 2008 ISSUE

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Cover

Bush’s Broken Record 
The 43rd president leaves office without a legacy to stand on.

He Fought the Wars and the Wars Won 
Gary Brecher
Empty flight suit

Full Faith and Bad Credit 
Patrick J. Deneen
Fiddling while Wall Street burns

A Long Train of Abuses 
Alexander Cockburn
On civil liberties, Bush followed Clinton.

Discounting Family Values 
Allan Carlson
Terror War trumps Culture War.

Conservatives Follow the Leader 
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Anything for the White House

Articles

The Right Lesson 
Paul Gottfried
Republicans stand athwart history yelling, “Left turn ahead!”

Representative Failure 
W. James Antle III
Congress had lower approval ratings than Bush, but Americans voted for more of the same.

Marriage Proposition 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
California’s Proposition 8 won’t stop gay marriage.

Unreal Estate 
Steve Sailer
How the American property ladder fell over

News

Fourteen Days   
The Triumph of Hope; Where’s the Third Party?; What’s the Matter with Pennsylvania?

Deep Background   
Why Syria Gave U.S. Attacks a Pass

Arts & Letters

Oedipus Tex   
Steve Sailer
Oliver Stone’s “W.”

Error by Trial   
Brendan O’Neill
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi

Liberal Paradox   
David Gordon
The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command by James Kalb

Saved By the Bell Curve   
Jeremy Beer
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray

Columns

When Elephants Forget   
Patrick J. Buchanan
When Elephants Forget

We Are All Socialists Now   
Daniel Larison
We Are All Socialists Now

Gardnering at Night   
Bill Kauffman
Gardnering at Night

 

 


Lone Wolf Tickets
By Dennis Dale - November 06, 2009
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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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