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June 30, 2008 Issue
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Food for Thought By John Schwenkler Localism, the family table, and sustainability are conservative virtues. So why should food culture be left to liberal activists?
Table Talk Concern for community as well as good eating animates Crunchy Con Rod Dreher and bestselling food writer Michael Pollan.
Burning Dinner By Timothy P. Carney Ethanol doesnxt reduce the cost of fuel, but it does drive up the prices of corn, beef, and beer.

Looking Into the Lobby By Philip Weiss Does peace become AIPAC?
Canada's Speech Impediment By Michael Brendan Dougherty Canada puts free speech on ice
From Beirut to Bin Laden By James Webb Twenty-five years of ill-considered intervention

Fourteen Days: If at First EU Don’t Succeed; Gay Marriage vs. Religious Freedom; Tryouts for Court Historian
Deep Background: Ghorbanifar’s War
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The Allergy Apocalypse By Steve Sailer M. Night Shyamalan’s
The Man Who Knew Bin Laden By Jeffrey Hart Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq by Michael Scheuer
Transgressing Against the Postmodernists By Damian Thompson Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
The Conscience of a Socialist By Clark Stooksbury Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest Freeberg

The British Blunder By Patrick J. Buchanan
Obama’s Blues By Daniel Larison
Flattening Globalism By James P. Pinkerton |