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May 23, 2005 ISSUE

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Articles

Fear Factories 
Matthew Scully
Modern farming practices are a predatory enterprise, unnaturally propped up by political influence and government subsidies. Conservatives can do better.

What Education Crisis?   
Gregory Cochran
While it’s politically advantageous to complain about failing schools, the data don’t support the decline theory.

Baghdad Isn't Berlin   
Tom Switzer
Free elections and popular power entail grave risks for the Middle East.

Fathers Into Felons 
Stephen Baskerville
No-fault divorce has criminalized husbands and undermined the institution of marriage.

Deep Background   
Philip Giraldi
Tenet Gets Punk’d, Country Goes to War; AIPAC Turns on Its Own

Andrea Dworkin: Culture Warrior?   
Anthony Gancarski
What Andrea Dworkin got Right

Social Security Shell Game   
Paul W. Schroeder
The president’s plans to remake the retirement program are a diversion from the real problem

News

Fourteen Days   
Bolton Stands in for Bush; $300 Billion Here, $300 Billion There; CAFTA is Coming

Arts & Letters

Film: Lost in Translation   
Steve Sailer
Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman, and the United Nations building star in “The Interpreter”

The Lure of Military Society 
Richard K. Betts
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich

Mr. Hamilton Goes to China   
James Gass
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman.

Columns

Bushism Imperiled 
Patrick J. Buchanan
Second-Term Slump

Fourth Estate Follies 
Taki
Beat the Press

 

 


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