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Hard Times Again 
Theodore Dalrymple
Amid the wreck of capitalism and socialism, Dickens is timelier than ever.

Editorial

People of the Book   

News

NATO vs. Syria 
Philip Giraldi

Columns

Provoking Pearl Harbor   
Patrick J. Buchanan

New Model Army   
William S. Lind

Cable's Catechism 
A.G. Gancarski

Just My Type   
Bill Kauffman

High Times at Delphi   
Taki

Articles

Unpatriotic Act   
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Indefinite military detention comes to the homefront.

Ron Paul's Secret Weapon 
Jason Sorens
The Free State Project flexes its muscles in New Hampshire.

Speak No Evil 
Rod Dreher
Is it brave not to talk about death?

Fight the Future   
Neil Clark
The politics of nostalgia is nothing to be ashamed of.

Immigration Impasse 
W. James Antle III
Does a defeat in Arizona spell doom for restrictionists?

How the Mideast Was Lost 
Ted Galen Carpenter

Kennan's Opposite 
Jordan Michael Smith
John Lewis Gaddis wrote the book on containment’s architect— but he didn’t follow it.

Patent Nonsense 
Sheldon Richman
Intellectual property enforces a monopoly over the mind.

Revenge of the Nerd 
Daniel J. Flynn
It’s Ray Bradbury’s future—we’re just living in it.

Arts & Letters

Everyman’s Strauss   
R.J. Stove
Richard Strauss: A Musical Life, Raymond Holden, Yale University Press, 344 pages // The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, Charles Youmans, ed., Cambridge University Press, 338 pages

Fighting the Last (Cold) War 
Paul R. Pillar
American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, Richard K. Betts, Columbia University Press, 384 pages

Money's Masterminds 
Scott Sumner
Money in a Free Society: Keynes, Friedman, and the New Crisis in Capitalism, Tim Congdon, Encounter, 486 pages

Who Needs a Ph.D.?   
Tom Bethell
Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America, Daniel J. Flynn, ISI Books, 224 pages

Labor Pains   
W. James Antle III
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America, Joseph A. McCartin, Oxford University Press, 504 pages

Postmodern Burke 
Gerald J. Russello
Edmund Burke for Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics, William F. Byrne, Northern Illinois University Press, 227 pages

 

 


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