May 5, 2008 VOL. LX, NO. 8
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COVER STORY
The Obama Way
Barack Obama exaggerates, embellishes, engages in double-talk, overstates, systematically deceives, and presents lies as metaphorical truths. All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional. What makes Obama different is that there’s not just a gap but a chasm between his actions and his professed principles.
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ARTICLES
By His Friends Ye Shall Know Him — by Stephen SpruiellThe trial of Tony Rezko spells trouble for Barack.
Wordsmith to a Hero — by John J. MillerOf pens, swords, and Mark Salter.
Straw Predators — by Robert VerBruggenFor the mortgage meltdown, the Left deserves a share of blame.
Texas Holds ’Em — by Kevin D. WilliamsonHow Lone Star Republicans stopped abusive medical-malpractice lawsuits.
Machina ex Machina — by Fred SchwarzGreendom has drawn the wrong moral from the catalytic-converter story.
Syrian Hopes — by Jay NordlingerA political party and its mission.
A Tiger, He’s Not — by Byron YorkEnough with the Obama-Woods comparison.
Thus Are We Coarsened — by Anthony DanielsLessons from a sex scandal.
The Obama Way — by Fred SiegelA Chicago pol’s special brand of insincerity.
Unified Theory — by Jonah GoldbergThe candidate of change forbids you to disagree.
Remembering 1968 — by Michael NovakThe student movement that set the stage for the center Right.
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BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS
Blinkered Sages — George Gilder . . . The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski
Round Two? — Andrew Stuttaford . . . The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, by Edward Lucas
An Original Voice — David Pryce-Jones . . . A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, by V. S. Naipaul
Fighting Right — Mackubin Thomas Owens . . . The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War, by Brian McAllister Linn
Film: The Aldous Factor — Ross Douthat reviews Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
The Straggler: Green the Tree of Life — The Derbyshire family branches and thrives.
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