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Foreign Policy & National Security
December 17, 2012
Volume 18, Number 14
EDITORIALS
Footprints on the Sand of Time
BY
WILLIAM KRISTOL
Obama v. Assad
BY
THOMAS DONNELLY
ARTICLES
Spender in Chief
The president doesn’t want a deal; he wants higher taxes, on his terms.
BY
FRED BARNES
Permanent Gridlock
The showdowns on spending won’t end until the voters make up their minds.
BY
JAY COST
Mittal Europa
France’s Socialists are more bark than bite.
BY
CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
The War on (Married) Women
It’s embedded in the tax code.
BY
ASHLEY E. MCGUIRE
Leading from the Rehab Center
Mark Kirk didn’t let a stroke slow his campaign for Iran sanctions.
BY
ALANA GOODMAN
FEATURES
USS Enterprise
Hail and Farewell
BY
BARRETT TILLMAN
Democracy, Gangnam-Style
South Koreans pick a president
BY
ETHAN EPSTEIN
‘It Is Well That War Is So Terrible’
The battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862
BY
GEOFFREY NORMAN
Books & Arts
What Would Marshall Do?
Fire some generals, for starters.
BY
TIM KANE
Symons Said
On the trail of a strange, elusive life in literature.
BY
MICHAEL DIRDA
Totally Tubular
The nuts and bolts and cables of the Internet.
BY
JAMES BOLOGNA
Postmodern Cézanne
This is what happens when politics distorts art.
BY
MAUREEN MULLARKEY
Unreal City
Is it possible not to feel good after seeing a feel-good movie?
BY
JOHN PODHORETZ
CASUAL
Above and Beyond
Mark Hemingway meets the Missing Man
BY
MARK HEMINGWAY
SCRAPBOOK
When Brubeck Wasn’t Cool
BY
THE SCRAPBOOK
The Play’s the Thing
BY
THE SCRAPBOOK
The War on Christmas, cont.
BY
THE SCRAPBOOK
Sentences We Didn’t Finish
BY
THE SCRAPBOOK
Free Fall
BY
MICHAEL RAMIREZ
PARODY
The Ambassador Wore Prada
A Parody