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February 27, 2012, Vol. 17 No. 23

Editorial

Photo of Robert Frost reading at Kennedy's inauguration

‘People, they like the poetry’

BY WILLIAM KRISTOL

Cartoon of God's hand passing out contraceptives

The Sacred Dogma of the Left

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

Photo of Xi Jinping with Barack Obama

Xi Whiz!

BY ELLEN BORK and JAMIE M. FLY

Articles

Cartoon of Obama

The Real Obama

The budget of a left-wing progressive.

BY FRED BARNES

Photo of Obama and Cecile Richards

The Fight the Left Wants

Religious liberty versus ‘women’s health.’

BY JOHN MCCORMACK

Photo of glamorous looking women smoking

Smoking, No, Nicotine, Maybe

The diminishing returns of the anti-tobacco ­campaign.

BY ELI LEHRER

Cartoon of the left and the right arguing with each other

Get Ready for Candidate No. 3

The Americans Elect gambit.

BY MICHAEL WARREN

Features

Cartoon of a statue of Clinton being cleaned off

The Big Creep

An attempt to rehabilitate Bill Clinton is in full bloom. Unsurprisingly, the would-be hagiographers leave a lot out.

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

Photo of Lieutenant Bilal Khaibar, defector from Assad’s airborne forces

Inside Free Syria

Poorly armed, lacking in allies, and against all odds, an insurgency seeks to topple the Assad dictatorship.

BY JONATHAN SPYER

Books & Arts

Photo of Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer and John Updike signing books

The Great American Novel

Will there ever be another?

BY ROGER KIMBALL

Image of General Stephen Watts Kearny

Westward, Ho

The bloodstained trail to Manifest Destiny.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

Photo of Booker T. Washington

Houses of Learning

One man’s vision meets another man’s philanthropy.

BY DAVID G. DALIN

Photo of Alberti’s medallion

To See Ourselves

The Renaissance portrait as a mirror of society.

BY JAMES GARDNER

Photo of a hand holding money

Polls Apart

Quantifying the conflict between the People and the Political Class.

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Movie still from Diner

Boys and the Diner

A coming-of-age classic turns 30.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

Casual

Painting detail from ‘The Good Samaritan’ by Théodule-Augustin Ribot

Good Samaritans

Claudia Anderson on Good Samaritans

BY CLAUDIA ANDERSON

Scrapbook

Photo of The Clintons biking at the 1993 Renaissance Weekend®

The Clinton Renaissance®

Parody

Great Emancipator? Or merely Somewhat Helpful Emancipator?

Great Emancipator? Or merely Somewhat Helpful Emancipator?

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