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February 01, 2012 ISSUE

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Ron Paul and His Enemies 
Scott McConnell
An effective antiwar candidate is what the neocons fear most.

Editorial

Old Right Renewal   

News

Tel Aviv's Next Target   
Philip Giraldi

Columns

Puppet Revolutions   
Patrick J. Buchanan

Clearing the Air Force   
William S. Lind

Planet of the Japes   
Bill Kauffman

Rise of the Eurofanatics   
Taki

Articles

The GOP's Lost Generation   
Craig Holland Dixon
Millennials decide who wins the future.

Dooley Noted   
Chase Madar
Listen to Finley Peter Dunne's sagacious Irishman.

Hometown Healer   
Rod Dreher
Doctors should not be factory foremen.

Attack of the Pork Hawks 
Doug Bandow
Loving the Pentagon turns conservatives into big-spending liberals

Border Battleground 
Ed Warner
Mexico's drug violence is state-sponsored—by the U.S.

Gitmo's Prying Eyes 
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
The Defense Department wages war on attorney-client privilege.

We Aren't Number 1   
Eamonn Fingleton
Do our slipping superlatives suggest a nation in decline?

Buchanan's Revolution 
Timothy Stanley
How Pitchfork Pat raised a rebellion—and why it failed.

Know Your Gnostics 
Gene Callahan
Eric Voegelin diagnosed the neoconservatives' disease.

Unraveling the Undead 
Marian Kester Coombs
Our obsession with zombies, from the Congo to Hollywood

Arts & Letters

Is Israel a Failed State? 
Noah Millman
The Unmaking of Israel, Gershom Gorenberg, Harper, 336 pages

Christian Jihad 
Patrick Allitt
Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can’t Ignore the Bible’s Violent Verses, Philip Jenkins, HarperOne, 320 pages

The Bell Curve's Toll 
Steve Sailer
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray, Crown Forum, 416 pages

Butterfield's Brilliance   
R.J. Stove
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God, Michael Bentley, Cambridge University Press, 398 pages // Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics, Kenneth B. McIntyre, ISI Books, 288 pages

What Madison Meant 
Ralph Ketcham
James Madison and the Making of America, Kevin Gutzman, St. Martin's Press, 432 pages

Capital Punishment 
Tom Pauken
The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform, Why We Need It, and What It Will Take, Bruce Bartlett, Simon & Schuster, 271 pages

 

 


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