February 2003 Archives

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American Politics

Exit Poll
(02-13-2003) Noam Scheiber argues that prominent Democrat pollsters did the party no favors in November 2002. (TNR)

The Myth Of Bush's Unilateralism
(02-13-2003) "[W]hen you separate actions from rhetoric," writes Daniel W. Drezner, the Bush "administration has doggedly pursued a multilateralist foreign policy since September 11." (TNR)

Pirating The Senate
(02-13-2003) Brandt Goldstein reflects on the rules and history of the filibuster. (Slate)

Maureen Dowd's Intelligence
(02-13-2003) Stephen Hayes suggests Maureen Dowd is either deliberately misleading or very confused. (Weekly Standard) (Neumayr)

The Other Death Tax
(02-12-2003) David Boaz proposes narrowing the wealth gap by ending the "other" death tax. (Fox News)

Not One Cent For Tribute
(02-12-2003) James Hackett suggests a Jeffersonian model for dealing with North Korea. (Wash Times)

Is Health Care A Commodity?
(02-12-2003) Want to improve health care? Treat it more like a commodity, argues Ronald Bailey. (Reason)

Boxer Rebellion?
(02-12-2003) Hugh Hewitt wonders if a despised governor and the nation's most liberal Senator will give Bush a chance to win California in 2004. (Weekly Standard)

Unstated Assumption
(02-11-2003) Marvin Olasky wonders if the Declaration's self-evident truths will hold in Iraq. (TownHall)

Grover's Cornered
(02-11-2003) Why is Grover Norquist attacking conservative defense intellectual Frank Gaffney? Orrin Judd has a roundup.

The Estrada Trap
(02-10-2003) As Byron York notes, the Dems have backed themselves into a special-interest corner over the Estrada nomination. (National Review) (Lambro) (Giuliani)

After Iraq
(02-10-2003) Nicholas Lemann visits with two prominent DoD officials, Douglas Feith and Stephen Cambone, on Iraq. (New Yorker)

Black Power
(02-10-2003) Michelle Cottle describes how the Dems created Al Sharpton. (TNR) (Beinart)

Fighting The War
(02-09-2003) Paul Greenberg emphasizes war against terror, not criminal proceedings against individual terrorists. (Wash Times)

When In Doubt, Lean Left
(02-07-2003) Fred Barnes writes that the Dems are repeating the mistakes of 1984. (OpinionJournal)

Building A Permanent Minority?
(02-06-2003) Dick Morris writes that House Dem incumbents scuttled any chance of gaining a majority during reapportionment. (The Hill)

Hawk Vision
(02-06-2003) Charles Moore explains why Washington's hawks see further than Europe's (and the Administration's) doves. (Telegraph)

Colin Powell Addresses The U.N.
(02-06-2003) (Barnes) (Cohen) (Greenberg) (Hoagland) (Kaplan) (Peters) (Podhoretz) (Safire) (Will)

Happy Birthday, Mr. Reagan
(02-06-2003) On Reagan's birthday, Steven Hayward takes stock of recent liberal revisionism with regard to the former president. (Claremont Institute)

The Voice Of The People
(02-05-2003) Ronald Bailey observes that Americans continue to prefer their democracy representative rather than direct. (Reason)

Fly Higher
(02-05-2003) Charles Krauthammer advocates lofty new goals for the U.S. space program. (Town Hall). (Easterbrook)

Oregon's Anti-Tax Trail
(02-04-2003) Patrick Basham and Chris Edwards explain that tax increases remain a political loser, even in Oregon. (American Prowler)

McGovern's Children
(02-03-2003) Zev Chafets notes that Gary Hart is back and it's looking a lot like 1972. (NY Daily News)

The Unknown
(02-03-2003) Jeffery Goldberg examines the CIA's reconsideration of Iraq's relationship to Al Qaeda. (New Yorker) (Flashback) (Bartley)

Luck And Leadership
(02-03-2003) George Will argues that President Bush has been lucky "by design" in crafting his Iraq policy. (Town Hall)

The End Of Appeasement
(02-03-2003) President Bush has an opportunity, argues Max Boot, to redeem America's past failures in the Middle East. (Weekly Standard)

International

Saddam Isn't Disarming
(02-14-2003) Hans Blix admits Saddam isn't disarming. Clifford May asks when serious consequences will follow. (NRO) (Hayes)

Syria's Word
(02-13-2003) If you want to know what Syria really thinks, David Silverstein suggests reading the state-run press. (National Review)

Entente Non Cordiale
(02-12-2003) When it came to sensible defense of peace and freedom in the 20th Century, writes R. Emmett Tyrrell, not many Europeans were up to the task. (American Prowler)

Planning A Postwar Iraq
(02-12-2003) As the United States continues to formulate plans for a postwar Iraq, some groups aren't happy. (Wash Post) (NY Times) (TNR)

Plague Of Frogs
(02-12-2003) Robert Lane Greene responds to recent criticism of France. (TNR)

Who Is Joschka Fischer?
(02-12-2003) Michael Kelly shines some light on the German Foreign Minister's radical past. (TownHall) (via John Vaughn) (Flashback)

Paraphrasing Bashar
(02-11-2003) David Ignatius recalls his interview of Syria's young dictator Bashar Assad, who apparently does not allow direct quotes. (Wash Post)

Inspections Dodge
(02-11-2003) Why are France and Germany pro-tyrant? Khidhir Hamza says follow the money. (OpinionJournal) (Miniter) (Ledeen) (Wash Post) (Times) (Eastland)

The Arab-League Crackup
(02-09-2003) Amir Taheri considers the ongoing decline of the Arab League. (Jerusalem Post)

Deep In Colombia
(02-09-2003) Ruth Morris describes being a captive of Colombia's rebel National Liberation Army. (LA Times)

French Kiss-Off
(02-07-2003) David Brooks tries to figure out the French. (Weekly Standard)

Oui, Oui, More Inspectors!
(02-06-2003) Stephen Hayes notes that France is ready to impose serious consequences on Iraq: even more inspectors! (Weekly Standard)

How Very French
(02-05-2003) Since the Kellogg-Briand pact, writes R. Emmett Tyrrell, it's been downhill for the French. (American Prowler)

Caracas Dispatch
(02-05-2003) Jeremy Kahn reflects on the sorry state of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. (TNR)

Occupied Lebanon
(02-05-2003) Claudia Rosett notes that the world yawns as Syria occupies Lebanon. (OpinionJournal)

The Other Face Of Fanaticism?
(02-05-2003) Pankaj Mishra considers India's growing Hindu nationalist movement. (NY Times Magazine)

Why Did Israel's Left Lose?
(02-05-2003) Meyrav Wurmser writes that Israel's elections punctuated a decade-long slide by Labor. (National Review)

'68 Reasons For German Failure
(02-04-2003) Michael Gove finds Germany and its Chancellor "in a parlous state." (Times of London)

Russian Lesson For The West?
(02-03-2003) Herbert London suggests the breakdown of traditional family structures in Russia could have dire consequences. (American Outlook)

Monumental Failure
(02-03-2003) Michael Ledeen writes that Nelson Mandela as political leader has never lived up to his image as inspirational leader. (NRO)

Iraq And International Law
(02-03-2003) International law expert Abraham Sofaer explores the legality of military action against Iraq. (OpinionJournal)

What Is Multilateral?
(02-03-2003) John Van Oudenaren says the debate over unilateralism versus multilateralism has been intellectually superficial. (Policy Review)

Books and Arts

An Open Field
(02-12-2003) David Brooks finds value in Jim Cullen's The American Dream despite its significant flaws. (OpinionJournal)

This Just In?
(02-12-2003) Brent Bozell wonders what kept Bob Schieffer from saying on television what he writes in This Just In. (Town Hall)

Ploughshares Into Swords
(02-07-2003) Jeremy Lott writes that all is not well at World Net Daily. (American Prowler)

Vexing Verse
(02-05-2003) Roger Kimball laments how an anti-war poet ruined a White House symposium. (OpinionJournal)

The End Of Human Nature?
(02-05-2003) Straussian political theorist Larry Arnhart reviews Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama. (Claremont Review)

"Misunderstood" Mass Murderers
(02-03-2003) Noel Malcolm previews Riccardo Orizio's forthcoming Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. (Telegraph)

Fifteen Books Of Bible's Prophets
(02-03-2003) Robert Royal reviews The Prophets by Norman Podhoretz. (Wash Times)

Blurred Battle Lines
(02-03-2003) John Lukacs concludes Michael Beschloss is out of his depth with The Conquerors. (LA Times)

Reagan's Triumph
(02-03-2003) Steven F. Hayward reviews Reagan's War and The Fifty-Year Wound. (Claremont Review)

The High Price Of Civil Security
(02-03-2003) Sylvana Tomaselli reviews Noel Malcolm's forthcoming Aspects of Hobbes. (The Spectator)

While Clinton Slept
(02-03-2003) Reuel Marc Gerecht reviews The Threatening Storm and The Age of Sacred Terror (Weekly Standard).

Texana

Company Man To The End
(02-11-2003) Kurt Eichenwald says the popular conception of Enron's Ken Lay suffers from one fatal flaw: it isn't true. (NY Times)

Society

Lessons Of Lebron James
(02-12-2003) Who's to blame for the Lebron James fiasco? All of his apologists, answers Herbert London. (American Outlook)

Superiority Complex
(02-10-2003) America has democratized elitism, writes David Brooks. Now everybody can be a snob. (Atlantic)

You've Lost Your Way, Baby
(02-03-2003) Catherine Seipp describes how organized feminism has made itself irrelevant. (Reason)

Men Who Want Aids
(02-03-2003) Matthew Laza talks to young homosexuals hoping to become infected with HIV. (The Spectator)

Other Headlines

Henninger: French Comic Relief

DuPont: 12 Left Feet

Greenberg: A Question For Tom Daschle

WaPo: North Korea Missile Can Hit U.S.

IAEA: North Korea In Breach Of Nuclear Agreements

Harrison: A Game With Serious Consequences

York: Dems Dig In On Estrada Nomination

Limbaugh: Are Inspectors Hapless Dupes Or Enabling Pacifists?

Williams: FAA Aviation Aversion Therapy

Powell: Levin Is Mistaken

WashTimes: Hugo Chavez At The Levers

Babbin: Final Days And Preparations

NYTimes: Classics Represent Growth Market For Publishers

NYPost: Jihad (At A Prison Near You)

Ackerman: Indecent Proposal

Stelzer: The Gloom Patrol

GAO Won't Appeal Cheney Task Force Ruling

NYTimes: A Terrorist With A Deadly Past

Hannaford: Old Congress And New Congress

York: A Pre-Emptive GOP Filibuster For Estrada?

NYSun: Liberal Hypocrisy

Nordlinger: Impromptus (02-10-03)

WSJ: The End Of NATO

Buckley: No Smile On His Face

BBC: NATO Rift Deepens On Iraq, Turkey

NYTimes: Proposal To Scale Back U.S. Troops In Germany

Jacoby: Kerry Always Tries To Have It Both Ways

Economist: Iraq's Neighbors

Economist: The Bolivarian Revolution Marches On

Telegraph: Jacques Chirac, All For One

Schulz: Old And New Europe

Hayes: A Match Made In Hell

Economist: What Oil Can Do To Tiny States

Baker: Case For Military Action Against Iraq Is Now Conclusive

Kristol: Morality In Foreign Policy

Bush Budget Includes D.C. School Vouchers

Saddam's Bodyguard Reveals Deception, Secret Arsenal

Safire: Op-Ed Diplomacy?

Peters: The Sovereignty Con

Hannaford: Gray Davis And The Bare Cupboard

TNR: War With Iraq Is The Only Option Left

WSJ: Guilty As Charged (Of Journalism)

Barnes: Bush Zeroes In