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IN THE May 16, 2011, ISSUE

The Acronym That Ate Health Care

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The 2012 election, and the existence of a free health-care market in this country, could well depend on a little-known agency called IPAB. Remember that acronym. It stands for the ...

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Politics & Policy

Syria Next?

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Bashar Assad’s eleven unbroken years as president of Syria have been an exercise of aggrandizement through crime, culminating now in murderous onslaughts against his own people. This should come as ...

Features

Politics & Policy

It’s Good to Be King

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The Arab Spring, which almost no one anticipated, continues to confound. Nobody knows how long the protests will last, or how many dictatorships masquerading as Arab “republics” or “kingdoms” will ...
Politics & Policy

Remembering Bill Rusher

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Debater NEAL B. FREEMAN The young Bill Rusher took to debating pretty much as the circling shark takes to soft human tissue — with hungry purpose and to startling effect. Rusher received ...

Books, Arts & Manners
Politics & Policy

Preacher Feature

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It’s fitting, in a sense, that Robert Redford’s courtroom drama The Conspirator is gracing theaters the month that Sidney Lumet passed away. For more than a generation, Lumet was perhaps ...
The Straggler

Tumbled the Towers

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Winter conducted a fighting retreat this year, one last storm bringing down our cable service. That left us without TV, Internet, or house phones. When we signed up for this ...
Politics & Policy

The Long Climb

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‘In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,” according to The Federalist Papers, “the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government ...
Politics & Policy

Great Generation

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Throughout the developed world, birth rates are cratering. Many countries are well below the replacement rate. There are many explanations for this trend, but the most basic is sheer selfishness: ...

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Poetry

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WHAT SHALL YOU SAY . . . What shall you say this evening, solitary soul? What shall you say, my heart, heart withered heretofore, To the very good, the very dear, the beautiful Whose ...
Happy Warrior

Entitlement Sense

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I like to think that upon arrival in this great republic I assimilated pretty quickly. Within four or five months, I was saying “zee” and driving on the right more ...
Politics & Policy

Letters

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Atomic Detail It was with great glee and anticipation that I opened the April 4 edition to read William Tucker’s article regarding the events at Fukushima Daiichi (“Overreaction”). However, my glee ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ Perhaps Trump is well-suited to be president. He has overseen bankruptcies, after all. ‐ We speak of office holders growing into their jobs. Is Barack Obama shrinking into his? Mr. ...
Athwart

Triumph of the Petrophobes

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Don’t worry about six-dollar-a-gallon gas. The president can sign an executive order demanding pumps be rebranded to deliver the juice in half-gallon increments. Swift, decisive action! A 50 percent drop ...
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