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"The key to the John Ziegler Show," says the angry, outraged, and apocalyptically gleeful talk-radio host John Ziegler, "is that I am almost completely real." A report from deep inside the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio
Rehnquist the Great?
Even liberals may come to regard William Rehnquist as one of the most successful chief justices of the century
America's African Rifles
"Every time you fire, a bad guy should bleed!" At the heart of the U.S. military's imperial venture is the training of indigenous troops around the world—and at the heart of that training is the rifle range. A report from Niger
Bullheads
"He wanted to thank God for his life, and he did. He didn't know what was next, but saw no point in being fearful now"
Agenda
Getting Out Right
Warnings from many experts went unheeded before we entered Iraq. Let's listen as we prepare to "shape the exit"
Inside Out
Why it's so hard to infiltrate al-Qaeda
The Air America Plan
Liberal talk radio is off the ground. Will the electorate turn blue, or just red in the face?
Incumbent-Protection Acts
Campaign-finance reform—an explanation
Confirmation Class
Most of what we learn from confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court chief justice will be misleading or irrelevant
Primary Sources
Smart women stay single; why religious Americans fear Muslims; Israel's surprisingly bright demographic future; are the left-handed better in a fight?
Crude Politics
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Books
The Lost Crusade
Against the Beast, edited by John Nichols; War and the Iliad, by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff; Understanding Dante, by John A. Scott
Thinking of Jackasses
Three recent books reveal the grand delusions of the Democratic Party
Interviews: Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, the authors of Nation of Rebels, on how the myth of a counterculture derailed the political left
Was It Something I Said?
Five books by extremely engaging misogynists
A Close Read
Follies and New Stories, by Ann Beattie
Civilization and Its Malcontents
Alongside a "peace" demonstration in London, a crisis of micro-terrorism
A Close Read
How We Are Hungry, by Dave Eggers
Tradecraft
Rightly championed for decades by genre and literary readers alike, John le Carré has written a novel that may appeal to neither camp
New Fiction
March, by Geraldine Brooks
Pursuits
The Hitler Shrine
A luxury hotel has opened next to the site of Adolf Hitler's notorious mountain retreat, the Berghof
The Fifth Nixon
Rose Mary Woods (1917-2005)
Who's Who
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