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October 06, 2003 ISSUE

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The Cost of Empire 
Christopher Layne
President Bush’s war policy marks the beginning of the end of America’s era of global dominance..

Articles

I Was Wrong 
Jack Strocchi
A repentant hawk trades his arrows for an olive branch.

An Empire--If You Can Keep It   
Dominic Lieven
A British academic argues that Americans should heed history’s lessons on imperial management.

Benefit of the Doubt 
Fred Reed
A sympathetic agnostic ponders faith.

Zionism: A Defense 
Peter Hitchens
A prominent conservative contends that cultural and political kinship make Israel the West’s natural ally.

Graham Greene: The Toil of Belief 
Joseph Pearce
Graham Greene’s struggle to believe

News

Fourteen Days   
Bustamante’s skeletons; Dean’s “gaffe”; Sullivan’s faulty flypaper

Arts & Letters

Film: This Con is a Pro   
Steve Sailer
Nicholas Cage puts the “art” in con artist.

Music: Touched by God's Little Finger   
R.J. Stove
With Puccini, trust the audience not the critics.

Dreaming of Cuba Libre   
Jonathan Chaves
Memories of a Cuban boyhood

The Greatest Story Ever Sold   
Michael S. Rose
Cracking The Da Vinci Code

Columns

What is Victory? 
Patrick J. Buchanan
Royal Flush

Royal Flush 
Taki
Gambling with the Saudi royals

 

 


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