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September 08, 2008 ISSUE

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General Principles 
Ron Unz
Lt. Gen. William Odom refused to fall in line when other top brass parroted the Bush administration’s Iraq talking points.

Articles

Back in the USSR 
Peter Hitchens
Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus is brutal and oppressive—yet remains unexploited by the economy of haste.

Biden Time 
W. James Antle III
In choosing his vice president, the candidate of change embraced politics as usual.

Appetite for Destruction 
Andrew J. Bacevich
America externalizes the price of its profligacy by redefining freedom as the right to consume.

The Asquith Analogy 
Daniel Koffler
Let’s remember World War I before launching World War V.

A New Musharraf in Town   
Eric S. Margolis
Who will succeed Musharraf as U.S. satrap in Pakistan?

Radical Chic 
Brendan O’Neill
Tibet, the Theocracy Liberals Like

News

Fourteen Days   
Another Reason to Vote Conley; Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead; Closing Ceremonies for the West

Deep Background   
Washington’s Men in Georgia

Arts & Letters

None of the Above 
W. James Antle III
The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate by David Freddoso and McCain: The Myth of a Maverick by Matt Welch

Stalin’s Willing Executioners 
Steve Sailer
Recalling a Soviet atrocity in “Katyn”

The Age of Hypocrisy   
Peter Oborne
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, From Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman

Trial by Error   
Christopher Howse
A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein by John Laughland

Columns

Day by the Pool 
Stuart Reid

Unpatriotic Conservative   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Left Behind   
Daniel Larison

 

 


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Asymmetrical Politics
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