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Obama and the Left

His campaign slogan boasts of "€œChange We Can Believe In."€ He tells voters that "€œAmericans are hungry for a new kind of politics."€ Rolling Stone dubs him "€œA New Hope."€ Barack Obama is the identikit Democratic ...

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What We Eat & Who We Are

Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Penguin (2008), 256 pages.  A few weeks ago I attended a ...

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Is There Life Beyond the Party?

Of all the candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, only one took the time to address the 35th-annual March for Life on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On the day of the march, this candidate, Texas Rep. Ron ...

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20th Century Music”€”What Went Wrong?

The tale is told by M. F. Barnes, in her 1931 study Renaissance Vistas (and it has often been depicted by great painters, notably Botticelli and Carpaccio), of Saint Augustine, wandering along the seashore. Lost in cogitation upon the ...

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Who is Vladimir Putin?

Even the editors of Time magazine can occasionally display some some wisdom, and to begin the new year, they got two things right: first, they canned Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer; second, they named President Vladimir Putin ...

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The Diversity Recession

Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for decades. Yet, one factor has so far been largely overlooked: the bipartisan social engineering crusade to drive up ...


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