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August 01, 2009 ISSUE

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Green-Industrial Complex 
Brendan O’Neill
The environmental lobby learns that saving the planet means big business.

Articles

Interrogation Enhanced 
Matthew Alexander
The American officer who broke the Zarqawi network explains why talking works better than torture.

Tortured Truth 
Andrew Brown
Dick Cheney’s cruel intentions

Prague Autumn 
Peter Hitchens
Twenty years after the Soviets left, the Czechs confront a new tyranny.

Cold War Without End 
David Brown
In pronouncing the end of history, America missed its chance for a new beginning

Bringing Down the House 
Charles Hugh Smith
Why the mortgage bubble won’t reinflate

Russian Lessons 
Paul Robinson
Must we repeat Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan?

Dumbest Idea on the Planet 
Jeff Huber
Doug Feith sends civilians on a mission impossible.

Expense Account   
Alex Massie
Will scandal bring down the mother of parliaments?

One-Sided COIN 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Liberal hawks in waiting

Sweetness & Spite 
R.J. Stove
The lure of light verse

Columns

Tehran’s Tiananmen   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Health of the State   
Stuart Reid

The Public Trough 
Rand Paul

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte 
Bill Kauffman

Front Lines   
Second Iranian Revolution?; Cap and Trade by Fiat; What Is the Fed Hiding?; Broken Bonds

Deep Background 
Philip Giraldi
Emanuel Shall Come to Thee, O Israel

Arts & Letters

Seeing Reds 
Justin Raimondo
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev and Alger Hiss and the Battle for History by Susan Jacoby

Dreams From His Father 
Alexander Waugh
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher Buckley

Right All Along   
John R. Coyne Jr.
Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt

Syllabus of Errors   
David Gordon
The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe

 

 


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