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December 30, 2003 |
| The Mahdis Revenge The foreign policy of Chinese Gordon |
December 25, 2003 |
| Osama, Where Art Thou? What are all these multicolored alerts for? Holiday decorations? |
December 23, 2003 |
| A Commie Christmas Gift Public property doesnt really belong to you, and public servants dont really work for you. |
December 18, 2003 |
| Scenario for a Comeback Why did he gravitate to public service in the first place? |
December 16, 2003 |
| Triumph! We dont know whos going to try him and we dont know what the charges will be. All we know is the verdict: guilty. |
December 11, 2003 |
| Israel and Rape Lets keep Satan out of it, shall we? |
December 9, 2003 |
| The War We Are In Does either of these religions sound like something Christians need to get involved in? |
December 4, 2003 |
| The Former Confederacy A short corrective to American history |
December 2, 2003 |
| The Comic Critic Hugh Kenner changed the way I see the world. |
November 27, 2003 |
| Attacking President Bush Power has its magic. |
November 25, 2003 |
| Master of the Quiet Style The man who died on November 22, 1963 |
November 20, 2003 |
| The Era of Bad Feelings Once you are committed to nonsense, there is no end to it. |
November 18, 2003 |
| The Neanderthal Creed In most of the great struggles of the past, the issue was decided by power and, sometimes, sheer chance. |
November 13, 2003 |
| The Age of Rage Reversing Tolstoy |
November 11, 2003 |
| National Service The popularity among liberals of proposals for national service is yet another reminder that the connection between liberalism and liberty is strictly an etymological curiosity. |
November 6, 2003 |
| Trust the Professionals Putting up with a lot of lying nonsense |
November 4, 2003 |
| The Spirit of Sacrifice Your patriotic duty to grab a rifle and hand it to someone else |
October 30, 2003 |
| Implied or Usurped? Why you dont hear the word usurpation in Congress |
October 28, 2003 |
| Lanskys Complaint Why talk about Israels deeds, when you can talk about its critics motives? |
October 23, 2003 |
| Airbrushing History? Returning a prize you didnt earn honestly is not Soviet-style revisionism. |
October 21, 2003 |
| Clarifying Premises You cant expect people to reach your conclusion from their own, very different premises. |
October 16, 2003 |
| Compassion and Talk Radio What would happen to talk radio if Rush Limbaugh were a liberal? |
October 14, 2003 |
| Limbaugh the Lawbreaker Conflating things that are essentially unrelated |
October 9, 2003 |
| The Sanity Gap There is simply no reason to go on living this way. |
October 7, 2003 |
| Partners in Paranoia Why do Jews keep migrating to anti-Semitic countries? |
October 2, 2003 |
| Looking Back at Reagan Strange, the way some men can make you want to believe in them. |
September 30, 2003 |
| A New Constitution Coming Up! Self-government usually occurs when there are no foreigners specifying how its to be done. |
September 25, 2003 |
| Nutty Patriotism Its only the truth that really hurts. |
September 23, 2003 |
| The Night I Met Gwyneth Paltrow You never know whats going to happen next. Hows that for a profound insight? |
September 18, 2003 |
| Lowly Origins Its time this country elected a president who has better things to do than go around eliminating poverty, ending injustice, and stuff. |
September 16, 2003 |
| A King in Close-up Not much of a tyrant, by modern standards |
September 11, 2003 |
| Free and Independent Not anymore |
September 9, 2003 |
| Victory in 2004! Our ancestors didnt know how good they had it. |
September 4, 2003 |
| Bad News from Iraq Regime change, war on terrorism, the Axis of Evil, weapons of mass destruction it all seems sooooo 2002 now. |
September 2, 2003 |
| Unfair, Unbalanced, and Very, Very Funny Maybe you have to be a Christian to see how funny sex is. |
August 28, 2003 |
| He Had a Dream I found it embarrassing then; I still do. |
August 26, 2003 |
| The Living Dollar Funny money is no laughing matter. |
August 21, 2003 |
| Abes Pig The key to the life of Lincoln? |
August 19, 2003 |
| Quagmire in the Sun Iraqi rifles and explosives could never threaten Americans at home. |
August 14, 2003 |
| The New Rules of Usage Dealing with the forces of Organized Touchiness |
August 12, 2003 |
| Can Arnold Make the Difference? Its not too early to start the Recall Arnold movement. |
August 7, 2003 |
| No Respect Movie heroes never have to deal with things like overdue bills and embarrassing relatives. |
August 5, 2003 |
| Is the Pope Square? What is the point of same-sex marriage? |
July 31, 2003 |
| Bush, Sodomy, and Marriage The practical reason for marriage is pretty earthy. |
July 29, 2003 |
| A Gay Mans Manifesto Gay people have no relish for persecuting homosexuals. |
July 24, 2003 |
| The Meaning of Brotherhood If I win the presidency, I dont want my victory to be under the shadow of a suspicion that I owed it to my relatives. |
July 22, 2003 |
| The Boys on the Train George Bush is continuing the service of Bill Clinton of undermining the overblown prestige of the presidency. |
July 17, 2003 |
| Dueling Teleocrats Theyre all teleocrats now. |
July 15, 2003 |
| Power and Trust The difference between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush |
July 10, 2003 |
| The Dust Settles The whole rationale for the Iraq war already sounds quaint. |
July 8, 2003 |
| The Kennedy Sex Scandals New Kennedy scandals keep happening at a pace that defies cataloguing, even as old ones come to light. |
July 3, 2003 |
| The Three Stooges Preserving the justices cover |
July 1, 2003 |
| The Court Can Do No Wrong The remedy is not a Constitutional amendment; its impeachment. |
June 26, 2003 |
| The Court versus Federalism You dont achieve diversity by gathering mediocre people with the sort of superficial differences that interest liberals. |
June 24, 2003 |
| Celebrating Diveristy Why is diversity even an interesting goal? |
June 19, 2003 |
| Attacking the Rich Theyre not the real target. |
June 17, 2003 |
| Did Bush Lie? Its not a lie if you believe it. |
June 12, 2003 |
| A Farewell to Peck Gregory Peck was one of the last relics of the old Hollywood star system. |
June 10, 2003 |
| Hillarys Abiding Commitment Relax and savor the comedy of it all. |
June 5, 2003 |
| Lawyer and President The most fateful speech in American history |
June 3, 2003 |
| Now They Tell Us So it had nothing to do with American defense and national security after all. |
May 29, 2003 |
| Justifying War War has become an American habit, a sort of tradition. |
May 27, 2003 |
| A Wonderful Man A movie doesnt have to have horses to be good. |
May 22, 2003 |
| Jayson Blair and the American Dream Nobody thanks a liberal. |
May 20, 2003 |
| Titus and Lucrece Another indication that the scholars have gotten Shakespeare all wrong |
May 15, 2003 |
| Patriotism, Mom, and the Bums Lately, too many Americans are just talking like bullies. |
May 13, 2003 |
| The One and Only Roosevelts legacy: lasting problems that can never be solved |
May 8, 2003 |
| Conservatism as Exorcism The conservative movement has lost its mind. |
May 6, 2003 |
| War and Dramaturgy What the war in Iraq was really about |
May 1, 2003 |
| Olivier and His Successors There are versions that make Oliviers seem a little old-fashioned, but they have none of his genius for making a line of Shakespeare sound like a trumpet blast. |
April 29, 2003 |
| What Young People Dont Know Theyve been given the wrong answers without realizing that there were ever questions. |
April 24, 2003 |
| The Unmaking of Conservatism What are the key tenets? |
April 22, 2003 |
| Bush, Religion, and War When a Christian is praised for success in the Wall Street Journal, it may be time for him to take a good look at himself. |
April 17, 2003 |
| Shakespeares Social Life Oxford seems to have known everybody the Stratford man didnt but should have. |
April 15, 2003 |
| Voluntary Slavery What we are really seeing is total submission to the state masquerading as patriotism. |
April 10, 2003 |
| The Right Feelings Moral questions are not about the Right Feelings. |
April 8, 2003 |
| Minimizing Civilian Casualties When you wage a war of choice, this is what you choose. |
April 3, 2003 |
| Telling the Story According to the hawks, frank reporting, if it contradicts official optimism, amounts to treason. |
April 1, 2003 |
| The Media War Most of the world watched the war through other lenses. |
March 27, 2003 |
| Benign Bombers The time for national self-congratulation is long gone. |
March 25, 2003 |
| The Neocons World War We know the sort of things theyre saying in public; what are they saying amongst themselves? |
March 20, 2003 |
| The Catholic Hawks Now abortion is permissible in cases of rape, incest, and the need to topple Arab dictators. |
March 18, 2003 |
| Saddam bin Laden I wonder why people on the winning side bother with me. |
March 13, 2003 |
| What Would Jesus Do? What if President Bush were influenced by the Prince of Peace? |
March 11, 2003 |
| Wilson, Bush, and History History is like a kaleidoscope: shake it and you get an unpredictable pattern. |
March 6, 2003 |
| Obsessions about Israel When you are obsessed with a subject, you lose all sense of proportion about it. |
March 4, 2003 |
| Phantom Enemies Millions of Americans believe that their enemies are omnipotent. |
February 27, 2003 |
| So Many Hitlers Making all sense of measure disappear |
February 25, 2003 |
| The Big Peacenik Big men, when it comes to making fun of the French! Lets hear them make fun of a Pole! |
February 20, 2003 |
| Whacking Our Allies Just try to imagine any of our brave pundits speaking of Israel the way they speak of France. The very idea is laughable. |
February 18, 2003 |
| In Defense of Dual Loyalty Lets all declare our interests. |
February 13, 2003 |
| The Right Hands What evidence is there that Americas hands werent the wrong hands? |
February 11, 2003 |
| France and the Bush Doctrine The French may not have much of an empire left, but they refuse to be an American colony. |
February 6, 2003 |
| What Happened to the War on Terrorism? This war requires some slippery semantics and a lot of propaganda which is mostly sheer repetition of nonsense until resistance is worn down, and logic surrenders. |
February 4, 2003 |
| Mourning in America Can we stop the fake mourning now? |
January 30, 2003 |
| Tracing the Box-Cutters Why not high-tech weapons? |
January 28, 2003 |
| The School of Experience Americans saved the freedom of Europeans and now they insist on acting like free countries. The nerve! |
January 23, 2003 |
| The Missing Word If abortion is a right, its an oddly sneaking and shameful sort of right. |
January 21, 2003 |
| King and His Times Past the peak of his influence, his leadership waning, his following dwindling, by 1968 King had become a rather quaint figure. |
January 16, 2003 |
| White Supremacism, Liberal-Style The Democrats want to retain affirmative action just a temporary measure, you understand except it has no expiration date. |
January 14, 2003 |
| Loose Lips In wartime, the loosest lips are those of people trying to be patriotic. Thus does war unhinge even sensible people. |
January 9, 2003 |
| History and Miss Couric Pieties to become the lessons of history |
January 7, 2003 |
| The Economy and the Taxpayer In principle, all our earnings seem to belong to the government. |
January 2, 2003 |
| The Sobran Administration Elect me, and youll at least get a president who knows his limitations. |
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