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December 31 - January 7, 2013
Volume 18, Number 16
EDITORIALS
Robert Bork, 1927-2012
The Greatest Conservative Generation
BY WILLIAM KRISTOL
A firefight in Helmand province: Three U.S. soldiers and one Afghan soldier
Abandoning Afghanistan
BY GARY SCHMITT
ARTICLES
John Kyl
The Indispensable Man
Arizona’s Jon Kyl retires from the Senate.
BY FRED BARNES
CEO John Schnatter
Spaghetti with Regulation Sauce
Restaurant owners work overtime to figure out Obamacare.
BY KATE HAVARD
Hamas militant with a Belgian FN F2000
Smugglers Galore
How Iran arms its allies.
BY LEE SMITH
The IRS building
The ‘Open for Business’ Tax Plan
Let’s eliminate tariffs and corporate taxes.
BY ANDREW MOYLAN and ELI LEHRER
FEATURES
Spider Man, Batman
Batman v. Spider-Man
Which is the greater hero?
BY TRAVIS D. SMITH
Major-General Charles Orde Wingate in Reading, England, September 1943
What Wingate Wrought
The astonishing raids of a Special Operations pioneer in Palestine, Abyssinia, and Burma
BY MAX BOOT
Books & Arts
Inside the offices of Faber & Gwyer, London, 1926
Sincerely, Young Possum
T. S. Eliot on the threshold of eminence.
BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD
Daniel Klein on Hydra
Growing Older
The best is yet to be, with adjustments.
BY ELISABETH EAVES
Allen C. Guelzo
Aftermyth of War
The Lost Cause is among the casualties in this definitive history.
BY MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS
Visiting Martian, President Jack Nicholson, ‘Mars Attacks!’ (1996)
Art of the Possible
Surprising lessons to be learned in popular culture.
BY BRUCE EDWARD WALKER
Rob Lowe, Sheryl Berkoff
Happier Ending
In the ranks of show-biz memoirs, an unexpected gem.
BY JOHN PODHORETZ
CASUAL
A tree threatens the house
When Good Trees Go Bad
Andrew Ferguson, arbor assassin
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
SCRAPBOOK
Rep. Tim Scott
Great Scott
BY THE SCRAPBOOK
Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012
Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012
BY THE SCRAPBOOK
Come, Let Us Converse Together
BY THE SCRAPBOOK
santa
Tis the Season
BY MICHAEL RAMIREZ
PARODY
Clinton’s convenient concussion
Clinton’s convenient concussion
A parody.