Iraq: The Way to Go
By Peter Galbraith
The Iraq war is lost. Of course, neither the President nor the war's intellectual architects are prepared to admit this. Nonetheless, the specter of defeat shapes their thinking in telling ways.
Goodbye to Newspapers?
By Russell Baker
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. It has lost too much public respect.
December 1, 2005: The End of News? by Michael Massing
A Northern New Jersey of the Mind
By Geoffrey O'Brien
Watching the long goodbye of The Sopranos has been a test, and for many of us a proof, of how deep the show's hooks had penetrated. At some point in its long run it came perhaps to be taken for granted. Undeniably, during recent seasons, I had found myself carping about stasis, a hint of aridity, an aura of grogginess. Hadn't all this gone on long enough?
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How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa
By William Easterly
On The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen Epstein.
November 3, 2005: The Lost Children of AIDS by Helen Epstein
The Islamic Optimist
By Malise Ruthven
On In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad and three other books by Tariq Ramadan.
Plus: Robert Herbert on Claude Monet, H. Allen Orr on religion and Darwin, Darryl Pinckney on the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Colin Thubron on Ryszard Kapuscinski, Daniel Mendelsohn on Leo Lerman's journals, and more.
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