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June 5, 2006   VOL. LVIII, NO. 10

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Scare of the Century
Time remarks: “Curbing global warming may be an order of magnitude harder than, say, eradicating smallpox or putting a man on the moon. But is it moral not to try?” The answer is, yes, it may indeed be moral not to try. What is not moral is to distort the truth for political ends — which is precisely what has been done with the ice-caps story. Here’s what you haven’t read By Jason Lee Steorts

ARTICLES


Good Economy, Bad Pollsby Ramesh Ponnuru
Bush and the Republicans can’t seem to catch a break.

What’s the Holdup?by Kate O’Beirne
More stalling, smearing, and fumbling on judicial nominees.

‘Mr. Counterterrorism Guru’by Byron York
He says he’s not, but others say he is.

Inventing Abuseby Stephen Spruiell
If the administration isn’t violating civil liberties in its pursuit of terrorists, some people will say it is anyway.

Your ‘Robber Baron,’ My American Heroby Jonah Goldberg
Or at least that’s true in many cases.

Space Is for Scienceby John Derbyshire
And not for shuttles, stations, and Bushian ‘vision.’

Target: Hezbollahby David Pryce-Jones
It may well make sense for Israel, and for an endangered world.

Scare of the Centuryby Jason Lee Steorts
The alarms and assertions about global warming have gone reprehensibly too far.

The New Immigration Politicsby Victor Davis Hanson
Wherein, for example, the rich and the poor join hands.

Approval Hellby Florence King
Americans are an accepting people, to a fault.

     BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS


Music: Rockin’ the Right — John J. Miller spins NR’s top 50 conservative rock songs of all time.

The Change Will ComeMichael M. Uhlmann . . . The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, by Ramesh Ponnuru

The Last WordWilliam F. Buckley Jr. . . . American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, by Jon Meacham

Music II: Opera Boss — Jay Nordlinger on Joseph Volpe, and his 16-year reign at the Metropolitan Opera.

The Straggler: Reading Lolita in Long Island — John Derbyshire revisits Nabokov’s classic.

SECTIONS


Letters
The Week
Notes & Asides
Help!
The Long View
Poetry
On the Right
Happy Warrior


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