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77 North Washington StreetLetters to the Editor  Clearer Than the Truth Duplicity in foreign affairs has sometimes served the national interest. But the case of Iraq is different by Benjamin Schwarz BRIEF LIVES: Second Coming Ralph Reed has moved on from doing God's work to doing George W. Bush's by Joshua Green The Buffness Deficit What Iraq needs is a homegrown professional police force. What it has is something else by Tish Durkin THE LIST: Ten Tax Scofflaws by Christopher Shea POST MORTEM: A Meteoric Disappearance Jack Paar (1918-2004) by Mark Steyn Primary Sources The kind of body count Americans can tolerate; the aggrieved boyfriend as terrorist; why the "dirty bomb" threat is real; finally—the truth about bullies and their victims THE NATION IN NUMBERS:
On the Money Trailby Don Peck The Case Against Perfection What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering: a prominent political philosopher investigates the false promise of human mastery by Michael J. Sandel The Enthusiasts Deep in the grass roots, our correspondent tries to understand political fervor by P. J. O'Rourke John Ashcroft's Permanent Campaign In the liberal imagination Attorney General John Ashcroft is an authoritarian and a religious zealot, bent on sacrificing liberty to achieve the illusion of safety from terror. But those who see Ashcroft as a zealot are missing Ashcroft the canny politician—a man beholden to both his polls and his God by Jeffrey Rosen The Softer Side of Ashcroft: An Interview with Jeffrey RosenA More Perfect Union Advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage agree on one point: something needs to be done about it on a nationwide basis. But why not consider a different approach? by Jonathan Rauch Royal Pain Further adventures of Rick Renard A short story by Christopher Buckley House A poem by Billy Collins [audio] Childhood A poem by Debra Bruce [audio] The Martha Stewart Trial A cartoon by Edward Sorel Seesaws A poem by Samuel Hazo [audio] Lunge With Martha A poem by Jonathan Musgrove [audio]  New & Noteworthy The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, by Benny Morris; Fidelity, by Michael Redhill; The Making of the Poets, by Ian Gilmour; Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz Nasty, Brutish, and Short Our author finds Jeffrey Masson's "divertingly amateurish" style likely to broaden the audience for the animal-rights movement in a way that Peter Singer and Matthew Scully never could by B. R. Myers Domesticated Goddess "Dying is an art," said Sylvia Plath. But so is living, and she excelled at both—not that her biographers, with one wise and big-hearted exception, have noticed by Cristina Nehring Me and My Moguls The new book by the media columnist Michael Wolff, a portraitist who has mastered the art of the suck-up putdown by Eric Alterman Reactionary Prophet Edmund Burke understood before anyone else that revolutions devour their young—and turn into their opposites by Christopher Hitchens REFLECTIONS: True to His Words The collected articles and columns of Michael Kelly by Robert Vare  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Primary Considerations If the first presidential primary were held in the "most representative" state, which one would that be? by Cullen Murphy TRAVELS: The Valley of the King Beyond a crack in the Afghan mountains lies a lost world, the hunting grounds of King Mohammed Zahir Shah by Jonathan Ledgard The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
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