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November 20, 2006 VOL. LVIII, NO. 21

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COVER STORY
Conservatives on the Couch
Conservatism is in crisis. Everyone is saying so, and everyone is right. But the nature of the crisis, its causes and possible solutions, is badly misunderstood. By Ramesh Ponnuru

ARTICLES

Obama Madness — by Byron York
Is the junior Illinois senator the Democrats’ savior?

Bush’s Vietnam Syndrome — by Richard Lowry
The president draws a wrong lesson.

A Bicentennial, Blown? — by John J. Miller
The question of Lincoln and 2009.

Veiled Threat — by Theodore Dalrymple
Why it may be important to see a woman’s face.

Bloody Nonsense — by Jack Jolis
When diamonds are a propagandist’s best friend.

The Thatcherites — by John O’Sullivan
Or, as they would have said, the IEA-ites.

Conservatives on the Couch — by Ramesh Ponnuru
A diagnosis.

No Substitute for Victory — by David B. Rivkin Jr.
As goes the Iraq War, so go many things.

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

Sulky Sullivan — Jonah Goldberg . . . The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, by Andrew Sullivan

Before Quag Met Mire — James S. Robbins . . . Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, by Mark Moyar

The Wise Man — Michael Knox Beran . . . Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, by Robert L. Beisner

Music: Working Classical — Jay Nordlinger glances at three contemporary composers, one a Beatle.

Film: Saint Clint — Ross Douthat reviews Flags of Our Fathers.

Country Life: Straight Shooting — The hunt is on, and off, for Richard Brookhiser.

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