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May 22, 2006 ISSUE

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The Weakness of Empire 
Michael Vlahos
The power of an imperial state resides in the person of the emperor-and rises or falls with his political fortunes

Articles

Immorality Play   
Bill English
Duke’s lacrosse scandal gives leftist ideologues a field day.

Populist Professor   
Bill Kauffman
Daniel Patrick Moynihan voted with the liberals but provided talking points for conservatives.

Looking Out for Numero Uno 
George W. Grayson
Not all jobs south of the border pay poorly. Take a look at the politicians’ salaries.

Special Relationship   
Uri Avnery
The U.S. uses Israel to dominate the Middle East, and Israel uses the U.S. to dominate the Palestinians.

News

Fourteen Days   
Howard Dean, Immigration Restrictionist?; Foreign Service Desperately Seeks Dissent; James Baker to the Rescue

Deep Background   
Philip Giraldi
Even TSA’s Director Is a Critic; Iran Comes First With Shi’ites; There She Goes, Miss Iraq

Arts & Letters

Film: Mr. Quaid Goes to Washington   
Steve Sailer
Hugh Grant and Dennis Quaid in “American Dreamz”

How Whitey Bulger Bought Boston   
William Norman Grigg
The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century by Howie Carr

It's A Man's World   
Clark Stooksbury
Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield

The High Cost of Low Prices 
Marian Kester Coombs
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works

Columns

Can We Win An Insurgents' War? 
Patrick J. Buchanan
Defeating ourselves in Iraq

Guilty Until Proven 
Taki
Not all Duke news is fit to print. Just ask the New York Times.

 

 


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