IN THE February 22, 2010, ISSUE

Senator Tea Party

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Jim DeMint wasn’t looking forward to his conversation with Arlen Specter last spring, but he didn’t want to avoid his Senate colleague, either. The Republican from South Carolina had decided ...

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Articles

Politics & Policy

Professor of Contempt

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With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively re­inforcing — ...
Politics & Policy

‘Not True’

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From all of the uproar surrounding the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, you would think that an activist Court had excised the Bill of ...
Politics & Policy

Docs and Doctorates

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A report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) lists 29 state studies that warn of looming physician shortages. Twenty-one specialty-specific studies and at least six national reports characterize ...

Features
Politics & Policy

Senator Tea Party

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Jim DeMint wasn’t looking forward to his conversation with Arlen Specter last spring, but he didn’t want to avoid his Senate colleague, either. The Republican from South Carolina had decided ...
Politics & Policy

The Way of the Whigs?

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Scott Brown’s improbable win in the Mas­sa­chu­setts Senate election is the latest and most dramatic evidence of the Republicans’ greatly improved electoral outlook. As polls have shown dissatisfaction with President ...
Politics & Policy

Fatted Leviathan

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The collapse of the housing market has been an object lesson for America. Households and banks borrowed too much on expectations of continuing appreciation in real-estate prices. This extra borrowing ...

Books, Arts & Manners

The Straggler

Second Childhood

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‘All those years we thought we were building Com­mu­nism! Actually they’ve built Communism right here in the U.S.A.!” This gets the biggest laugh of the evening. All seven of us in ...
Politics & Policy

Men of Letters

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Dubious legend has it that the world’s first letter was written by Queen Atossa of Per­sia, daughter of Cyrus the Great, in the sixth century B.C. We do know that ...
Politics & Policy

Back to Basics

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For many today, the American Revolution was primarily a mil­itary campaign. But the “real American Revolution,” John Adams insisted, “was in the minds and hearts of the people,” transforming their ...
Politics & Policy

Unhappy Returns

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There’s a fine line between be­ing a crazy, paranoid, violence-obsessed genius, and just being plain old crazy. In the first half of the 2000s, Mel Gibson managed to stay (just ...

Sections

Happy Warrior

Recluseland

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I’m not sure I’m the go-to guy for a disquisition on The Catcher in the Rye, but I confess I was always intrigued by the J. D. Salinger lifestyle, at ...
Politics & Policy

Letters

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The Book of Heston In “The Week” of National Review’s February 8 edition, the editors write that “people came to think that foreign slaves built the pyramids” because they were “influenced ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ Air America has ceased operations: Talent on loan from God still trumps talent on loan from Al Franken. ‐ Scott Brown, a dodgy economy, deficits big as the Rockies: The ...
The Long View

From the Pelosi inbox . . .

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TO:  Dianne@speakersoffice.gov FROM: NP@speakersoffice.gov RE: I’m hungry Hey Dianne . . . Hate to bother you, but I’m sitting here in my office and suddenly craving something sweet. Can you handle this? Thnx . ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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AT THE RECEPTION Up there, the braids were dark and round. The skirt was slanting from the ground. So suavely rocked she, swift but still, Bride like a bell tower, like God’s will. How strangely ...
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