January 16, 2006 Issue

Syria In Their Sights
By Robert Dreyfuss
For the neoconservatives, one Middle Eastern war at a time may not be enough.

Declare Victory and Stay
By Scott McConnell
In his ongoing flight from the reality-based community, President Bush unveils yet another plan for victory in Iraq.

Painting the White House Red
By John Laughland
The torch of global revolution has passed from old-school Communists to neoconservative democracy-promoters.

Impolite Society
By Georgie Anne Geyer
Washington has become an uncivil society.

Out of Africa
By Theodore Dalrymple
A British doctor who once practiced in Rhodesia diagnoses Africa’s ills.

The Girl With the Gray Eyes
By Steve Sailer
Rob Marshall’s “Memoirs of a Geisha”

Like Tourists With Guns
By Christopher Preble
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert Kaplan

The Shakespeare of Music
By R.J. Stove
Beethoven: The Universal Composer by Edmund Morris