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Michael Crowley takes a look at the
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Peter Beinart on our civilian casualties,
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The
Case for Ground Troops
"There is
something exceedingly strange about America's
war in Afghanistan. It appears to be a war that
involves little in the way of real American
combat. The reason is plain: combat implies
casualties, and according to the reigning dogma,
the American people are soft and sentimental,
and cannot abide battlefield losses...."
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Who has made the dumbest, most outrageous
comment since 9/11? We nominate, you .
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Ryan
Lizza on bin Laden's ties to Liberian dictator
Charles Taylor, and Taylor's ties to Pat Robertson,
Jesse Jackson, and more.
Grover Norquist
calls TNR's Franklin Foer a liar; Foer
responds.
The GOP needs
to learn some lessons from its defeats Tuesday.
How Green cost himself the
election, plus more on the NJ and VA elections.
Jeremy McCarter on New York's tradition
of dissing Saudi royalty.
Franklin Foer on how terrrorist sympathizers
have gotten in to the White House.
The
Taliban toasts Madison and Hamilton, &c.;
Wendy Orent finds
a surprising potential source for a vaccine.
Since when did
the truth become news you can't use?
Jonathan
Cohn on the shameless Republican opportunism in
the new stimulus package.
Benjamin Soskis
says the United States can't rely solely on a
loya jirga.
Ryan Lizza
on why W. isn't talking about anthrax.
Lawrence F.
Kaplan on why the Bushies need to start standing
up to their own generals.
The "loony
left" blames globalization for 9/11. Brink
Lindsey says they're wrong.
The editors
say the stimulus bill is worse than nothing at
all.
Gregg Easterbrook
says the real threat is a nuclear bomb.
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The
victim-hero of The Man Who Wasn't There
is pathetic; the hero-victim of Otomo
is monumental.
Jackson
Lears on P.T. Barnum and the origin of postmodernism.
Martin Edlund
on the real reason why people are falling for
the critics' favorite new band.
Giacometti's
greatness is beyond dispute, but a new retrospective
raises some old questions about abstraction,
representation, and the nature of art itself.
Was
Othello a Muslim? In the wake of September 11,
the classics take on new meanings.
Former
heartthrob Robert Redford and two films full
of bacchanalian sex.
A
1951 encounter with Arthur Miller, a 2001 film
from David Mamet.
The contrarianism
of Thomas Eakins.
Adam Kirsch
on Billy Collins, the new poet laureate who
has fun at poetry's expense.
David
Lynch's Mulholland Drive is a sensual
testament to the senselessness of the world.
Paula Fredriksen
on the historical Jesus and the Christ--or Christs--of
faith.
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Copyright
2001, The New Republic
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