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August 13, 2007 VOL. LIX, NO. 14

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COVER STORY
Health of the State
According to Sicko, Michael Moore’s film about health care in America, the British and French sunbathe in the cloudless uplands of universal state-funded health care, while Americans struggle horribly in a muddy swamp to pay exorbitant costs for themselves. In particular, Moore’s portrayal of Britain’s National Health Service irritated me profoundly. Only someone intent on telling a lie could have presented the situation as he presented it. By Theodore Dalrymple

ARTICLES

NRA Nation — by Ramesh Ponnuru
The Second Amendment people are winning.

Abortion and Crime — by John R. Lott Jr.
One has an effect on the other, but it may not be the effect you think.

‘Peace Through Light’ — by John J. Miller
The latest case of missile defense and its enemies.

Taiwan’s Two Dozen — by Jay Nordlinger
Who will dare have relations with Free China?

Mugabe’s Marvelous Foe — by Travis Kavulla
Meet Zimbabwean archbishop Pius Ncube.

Put ’Em to the Test — by Jonah Goldberg
For a nation of minimally informed voters.

Health of the State — by Theodore Dalrymple
Doctors, patients, and Michael Moore.

Better Than Genocide — by Ralph Peters
Ethnic cleansing in human affairs.

Farmers on the Dole — by Stephen Spruiell
The crying need for ag reform.

BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS

The Madness Begins — Mark Moyar . . . Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, by James Piereson

Apologia Americana — Christopher Levenick . . . Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion, by David Gelernter

Ad Multos Annos! — Brian C. Anderson . . . Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts, edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer

After the Fall — Peter Suderman . . . Falling Man, by Don DeLillo

Shelf Life: Auld Kirk — Michael Potemra defends a poet of the possible, and more.

Film: A Few Charms — Ross Douthat reviews Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

The Straggler: Let’s Get Physical — John Derbyshire shovels it.

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