Print Magazine
February 23, 2004 Issue
Editorial
Whitewashing Blair
Meteorologists may disagree, but the political weather in Britain almost always comes from the United States.
Questions for Kerry
Nothing stirs Democrats' anger like the fearmongering rhetoric Bush/Cheney employed on the march to war.
The ‘Electability’ Contest
"Oh, this is the guy who is supposed to get it," Pam Earle-Benbow said as John Kerry addressed a candidate forum that drew several thousand advocates for low-income families t...
AWOL on the Truth
How far can George W. Bush and his White House team go? On the two biggest issues facing them--the war and the budget--there is no end to their disregard for the truth.
Column
War As An Excuse For Everything
Is it just me, or is President Bush's demeanor a bit Napoleonic these days?
McNamara: The Sequel
Apparently to McNamara's mortification, Errol Morris, whose film The Fog of War I discussed in my last column here, passes over his subject's thirteen-year stint runnin...
Books & the Arts
A Faithful Servant
Most Americans take their system of government for granted, as if Moses himself had delivered the Constitution engraved on marble tablets.
A Tragedy of Errors
About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo.
McNamara: The Sequel
Apparently to McNamara's mortification, Errol Morris, whose film The Fog of War I discussed in my last column here, passes over his subject's thirteen-year stint runnin...