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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 December 2005
 
ARTICLES
Who Is Lying About Iraq?  by Norman Podhoretz
The charge that we were misled into war is not only baseless but itself mendacious.
The Storm Over Katrina  by Wilfred M. McClay
What we think we know about the hurricane and the response to it is largely wrong, and seriously disabling.
Europe's "Good Jews"  by Emanuele Ottolenghi
On the continent, the morally correct way to show concern for the Jewish state is to defame it.
The First Genocide of the 20th Century?  by Guenter Lewy  
The extent of Armenian suffering at the hands of the Turks cannot be disputed; the nature of the crime can be.
Forgetting Edmund Wilson  by Joseph Epstein
What, apart from a tawdry personal life, remains of “our last great man of letters”?
Sutzkever's Ascent--A Memoir  by David G. Roskies  
In 1967, a young “exilic” student in Tel Aviv learns about war, memory, and a Yiddish poet’s devotion to his art.
OBSERVATIONS
This Is Your Brain on Nanobots  by Kevin Shapiro  
Examining the latest claims of our most vocal enthusiast of artificial intelligence.
Journalism, Hollywood-Style  by Terry Teachout
Two new films take wholly divergent views of the reporter as paragon.
BOOKS IN REVIEW
The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine 
reviewed by Hillel Halkin
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman 
reviewed by Dan Seligman
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani 
reviewed by Alex Alexiev
Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling 
reviewed by Steven C. Munson
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 
reviewed by Sam Schulman
LETTERS FROM READERS
Group differences; "Getting Over Oil"; the Zionist Left; Ayn Rand. 

 

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ADVANCE
from the January 2006 issue
Norman Podhoretz
The Panic Over Iraq

Behind the campaign for a swift American withdrawal stand a number of arguments, almost all of them specious, and a number of fears, almost all of them discreditable.

available in html and pdf

FROM THE ARCHIVE

The War and the World

Has Iraq Weakened Us?
Victor Davis Hanson
(February 2005)

Islam and Freedom
James Q. Wilson
(December 2004)

Iraq: Prophets of Defeat
Gabriel Schoenfeld
(December 2004)

World War IV:
How It Started, What It Means,
and Why We Have to Win

Norman Podhoretz
(
September 2004)

Baghdad, with Victims
Steven Vincent
(December 2003)

The Morality of War
George Weigel
(July 2003)

Making Iraq Safe for Democracy
Efraim Karsh
(April 2003)

Hearts, Minds, and the War Against Terror
Joshua Muravchik
(May 2002)

Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?
Gary Millhollin
(February 2002)

Who Is the Enemy?
Daniel Pipes
(January 2002)

Can Any Good Come of Radical Islam?
Francis Fukuyama and
Nadav Samin
(September 2002)


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