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IN THE October 18, 2010, ISSUE

Professor Ahab

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The occupational hazards of opinion journalism include certain intellectual and moral bad habits: Logical fallacies offer tempting shortcuts through difficult arguments. Blind spots for procedural abuses suddenly afflict us when ...

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Politics & Policy

Sex, Workers

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President Obama recently urged the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would make it easier for women to sue their employers for gender discrimination. The act is needed, ...
Politics & Policy

Eastern Approaches

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Thirty-five years ago this past March, the Vietnamese port city of Da Nang was convulsed by artillery shelling, bloody street violence, and chaotic evacuations, as Communist troops approached and throngs ...
Politics & Policy

Benedict in Britain

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Papal visits now follow a well-established course. Before the pope arrives, the host country’s media are full of reports asserting with prophetic sadness that, though the pontiff is personally popular ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Rogue States

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In this season of resurgence, conservatives have goals more ambitious than ending bailouts or cutting federal spending: They seek a constitutional restoration. They believe that today’s bloated federal government is ...
Politics & Policy

The Believer

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Univision’s rules for its Florida senatorial debate on September 17 were clear: The candidates were forbidden to use Spanish. Instead, they were to answer questions in English and have their ...
Politics & Policy

Professor Ahab

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The occupational hazards of opinion journalism include certain intellectual and moral bad habits: Logical fallacies offer tempting shortcuts through difficult arguments. Blind spots for procedural abuses suddenly afflict us when ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Summa Economica

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In this occasionally fascinating, occasionally maddening new book, John D. Mueller, whose work often illuminates the pages of this magazine, has set himself a formidable task: to reassert, convincingly, the ...
The Straggler

A Sea of Glass

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What a place it is, this world we humans have made! It has such variety, such abundance of skills and knowledge, so many aspects one never thinks of from one ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

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Still an Enigma I was just rereading National Review’s Dec. 29, 2008, cover story, “Vision, Honor, Action,” by Mark Steyn. I see that on that date, he wrote, “George Bush is ...
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The Week

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‐ Even his economic advisers can’t hold on to their jobs. ‐ Obama supporters are in a classic midterm funk. The ideologues are baffled to find that enacting their agenda has ...
The Long View

Dear Former Congressperson

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Dear Former Congressperson: Welcome Back! We’re all thrilled to have you back among us, and we hope your transition back “home” has been as trouble-free as possible. By now, you’ve had a chance ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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THE MILESTONE CARVER (With thanks to John Dominic Crossan) I sent it down the whole Galatian road: “The Imperator Caesar, Son of God . . .” Junias took it from me load by load, On ...
Athwart

Plan 9 from Turtle Bay

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The Hubble telescope spots it first; the astronauts on the International Space Station watch in stunned silence as it glides past the moon and enters our atmosphere. It is an ...
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