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Editorial
Chairman’s Note
November 22, 2011 09:00 AMAs I write this, every day seems to yield a new story about something called Occupy Wall Street. I have no idea how long Wall Street will be occupied, but it occurs to me that this fiftieth-anniversary issue of the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
So Long, Sun
September 30, 2008 01:41 PMI couldn't abide its right-wing politics, its one-sided support for the war in Iraq, its gratuitous attacks on some of my favorite institutions—the UN, Columbia University, and the Ford Foundation among them—and while I didn't mind its obsession with Israel... Continue reading
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Review
Parting Shot
December 11, 2007 09:00 AMA confession: back in June of 1988, when journalist John Judis (The New Republic) published his respectable and respectful biography, William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives, I violated The Nation’s traditional church-state division of labor, which... Continue reading
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