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August 25, 2008 ISSUE

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The Anthrax Files 
Christopher Ketcham
The official investigation into the 2001 bioterror attacks has been closed, but the case remains shrouded in mystery.

Articles

The Last Dissident   
Jeremy Beer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was more than just a survivor of the gulag, he was a perceptive critic of the West’s own flaws.

Innocents Lost   
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Refugees of the war we waged turn to prostitution to survive.

All Roads Lead to Rome   
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Is Ave Maria the answer to Catholics’ prayers?

Auto Asphyxiation   
Dennis Dale
Why I miss traffic cops

Future Perfect   
Brian Kaller
The future is Mayberry, not Mad Max.

Czechoslovakia on Their Minds 
Leon Hadar
Pay no attention to the facts about Georgia, say the neocons. Just think about Hitler.

News

Fourteen Days   
McCain Went Down to Georgia; Maliki’s Exit Strategy; China Runs Rings Around U.S.

Deep Background   
Doug Feith’s Office of Special Forgeries

Arts & Letters

Good Film, Bad Waugh   
Steve Sailer
Waugh updated in "Brideshead Revisited"

Shakespeare for the Masses   
Clare Asquith
The Quest for Shakespeare by Joseph Pearce

From Bolivar to Chavez   
Michael Ard
Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul by Michael Reid

The Last Republican 
Bill Kauffman
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal edited by Jay Parini

Columns

The End of Democracy?   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Obama's Summer Blues   
Daniel Larison

Scientism Fiction   
Fred Reed

 

 


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