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January 17, 2005 ISSUE

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A Time for Leaving 
William R. Polk
America needs an Iraq exit strategy

Articles

The Folly of Albion   
Andrew J. Bacevich
The British empire came to grief in Mesopotamia. The parallels are fairly obvious.

Wiring Shangri-La 
Peter Hitchens
TV invades the Himalayas. The Himalayas don’t fight back.

All the Rage   
Peter Wood
The politics of anger, Left and Right

Trading Security Away   
W. James Antle III
The real cybersecurity threat

Mausoleum of Modern Art   
Robert Locke
Throw MoMA from the train

News

Fourteen Days   
False MEMRI; Wal-Mart Creates Jobs

Deep Background   
Philip Giraldi
The Pentagon’s Favorite Terrorists; Covert Action Reassigned

Arts & Letters

Film: Not So Dirty Dozen   
Steve Sailer
Clooney & Co. in “Ocean’s Twelve”

French Lessons 
Robert O. Paxton
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship With France by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky

What Would Strauss Do? 
Michael C. Desch
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton

The Best of the Worst   
Kevin Lynch
The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today’s Conservative Thinkers by Chilton Williamson Jr.

Bonfire of the Varsities 
Dana B. Vachon
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

Columns

Do They Know It's Christmas? 
Patrick J. Buchanan

Fifth Columnists   
Taki
A Time for Leaving

 

 


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