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December 01, 2008 ISSUE

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Planet Obama 
Theodore Dalrymple
The world is enraptured with the new president, but his election is not the end of history

Articles

Clinton Cabinet 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Hillary’s people could hardly have done better if they had won the election.

Africa’s Last, Worst Hope 
Peter Hitchens
Desperate for development, a continent turns its hungry eyes to China.

Collateral Damage   
Tom Streithorst
How high finance brought the real economy low

You Can Make This Stuff Up 
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Novelist Vince Flynn wrote the book on the Bush administration’s misadventures.

Enemy of Our Enemy   
Neil Clark
Syria is a natural ally in the war on terror.

Left Turn Ahead 
Dylan Hales
Left-wingers William Appleman Williams and Gabriel Kolko got it right.

America’s Judge   
A.G. Gancarski
From “Beavis and Butthead” to “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge has chronicled the dumbing down of America.

Arts & Letters

Unbearable Lightness   
Steve Sailer
Mike Leigh’s “Happy-Go-Lucky”

Hedge Fund Historian   
Philip Delves Broughton
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Drunk Without Power 
Jesse Walker
Forgotten Founder, Drunker Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin by Bill Kauffman

American Dissenter   
David Brown
The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills edited by John H. Summers

Columns

God Save the King   
Stuart Reid

Chinese Lessons   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Deep Thoughts   
Fred Reed

News

Fourteen Days   
Lieberman Survives; Incentivizing Default; Pirates of the Gulf of Arrr-den

Deep Background   
Iran Upgrades Its Arsenal; Britain’s Terrorist Count is an Imaginary Number

 

 


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Bad Medicine
By Sheldon Richman

The Lobby Strikes Back
By Scott McConnell

 


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