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IN THE November 28, 2011, ISSUE

What Is Constitutional Conservatism?

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This fall, liberals from the president on down have begun to grasp the scope of the political and intellectual disaster that the past three years have been for the Left. ...

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Politics & Policy

A Hero of Us All

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Last month, there were reports that Chen Guangcheng was dead. That they had at last killed him. “They”? China’s ruling Communists, who have tormented Chen for years. Other reports said, ...
Politics & Policy

Cristina’s Whirl

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If you want to understand why Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner triumphed quite so conclusively (with 54 percent of the vote against 17 percent for her nearest challenger) in October’s ...

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Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Mid-Century Mind

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Dwight Macdonald (1906–82) was a clamorous figure in 20th-century New York intellectual circles. Simply living here, one absorbed anecdotes about him, by osmosis: that an annoyed Trotsky said he favored ...
Politics & Policy

Religious Rights

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This book is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the degree to which the freedoms of religion and expression are being violated in Muslim-majority countries, and why this development has ...
Politics & Policy

The Fall

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Prosperity has a thousand fathers; economic ruin is an orphan. Few liberals want to acknowledge that our Great Recession was made, in part, in Washington, D.C., by the well-meaning politicians ...

Sections

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Letters

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The Friedman-Durbin Amendment? In The Week (October 31), the Editors write that the Durbin amendment’s cap on the fees that merchants pay for debit-card transactions prompted banks to “transfer the fee ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐  The headline above an Associated Press story on the 2012 election read, “Obama’s team banks on his ‘regular guy’ appeal.” We’re not in the habit of giving advice to ...
The Long View

NSA Surveillance Transcript

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Document Extract: 11.08.11 GMT 08.93 Begin Extract UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE:   Hello? UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE #2:   Who is this, please? UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE:   Herman? Herman Cain? This is Bill Clinton. HERMAN CAIN:   Bill Clinton? The Bill Clinton? BILL ...
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Poetry

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GHOST AND GUEST Collapsing on a sleeping friend Upon the couch, I fell Sincerely sorry to offend This guest in my “hotel.” Our customary schedules changed, He lay as if in pitch, No boundaries, his form estranged From ...
Happy Warrior

Treadmarks

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Whenever I write in these pages about the corrosive effect of Big Government upon the citizenry in Britain, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere and note that this republic is fairly well ...
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