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Defending and Advancing Freedom

by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Commentary, November 2005, p. 24

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    6. The Intifada Comes to Duke by Eric Adler and Jack Langer, pp. 56-58
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      1. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
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    2. The War Against World War IV by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 23-42
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    4. Europe's Crisis by Arthur Waldron, pp. 48-53
    5. Doing Justice to the Bible by Hillel Halkin, pp. 54-60
    6. The Election and the Jewish Vote by Jay Lefkowitz, pp. 61-65
    7. When Muslims Convert by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, pp. 66-68
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    3. The Settlers' Crisis, and Israel's by Hillel Halkin, pp. 37-43
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    5. Social Security Then and Now by Bruce Bartlett, pp. 52-56
    6. Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up? by John Gross, pp. 57-60
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      1. Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul
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    2. "Dear Ellen"; or, Sexual Correctness at Harvard by Ruth R. Wisse, pp. 31-37
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    4. Surprise Attack by Richard A. Posner, pp. 50-54
    5. Can the UN Be Fixed? by Michael Soussan, pp. 55-59
    6. The Islamicists' Other Weapon by Paul Marshall, pp. 60-63
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    2. The Bush Doctrine's Next Test by Victor Davis Hanson, pp. 21-26
    3. Jews, Arabs, and French Diplomacy: A Special Report by David Pryce-Jones, pp. 27-45
    4. Investing in Conservative Ideas by James Piereson, pp. 46-53
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    2. Annihilating Terri Schiavo by Paul McHugh, pp. 27-32
    3. The Anti-Semitic Disease by Paul Johnson, pp. 33-38
    4. Culture in the Age of Blogging by Terry Teachout, pp. 39-48
    5. Bush's Calling by Wilfred M. McClay, pp. 49-53
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    1. Letters, pp. 3-20
    2. The Neoconservative Convergence by Charles Krauthammer, pp. 21-26
    3. Columbia and the Academic Intifada by Efraim Karsh, pp. 27-32
    4. Class Struggle in America? by Bruce Bartlett, pp. 33-38
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    2. The Inequality Taboo by Charles Murray, pp. 13-22
    3. Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura Affair by Nidra Poller, pp. 23-30
    4. Bush and the Realists by Gary Rosen, pp. 31-37
    5. In Bellow's Company by Herbert Gold, pp. 38-44
    6. Among Arab Reformers by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 45-52
    7. Getting Over Oil by Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, pp. 53-58
    8. Who Needs Ayn Rand? by Algis Valiunas, pp. 59-64
    9. Homage to Bix by Terry Teachout, pp. 65-68
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      1. The Oslo Syndrome by Kenneth Levin
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      State of the "Nation" by Nell Rosenthal, pp. 81-83 - 1 Review
      1. A Matter of Opinion by Victor S. Navasky
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      Facts & Forces by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 84-87 - 1 Review
      1. China Hands by James R. Lilley and Jeffrey Lilley
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      1. The Temple of Jerusalem by Simon Goldhill
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      Originalist Sin by Ken I. Kersch, pp. 90-94 - 1 Review
      1. America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
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    1. Letters, pp. 3-22
    2. Israel After Disengagement by Hillel Halkin, pp. 23-30
    3. Mao Lives by Arthur Waldron, pp. 31-38
    4. Jews and the Jewish Birthrate by Jack Wertheimer, pp. 39-44
    5. Justice to Pissarro by Dana Gordon, pp. 45-49
    6. Iraq and the Conservatives by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 50-53
    7. In the Matter (Again) of J. Robert Oppenheimer by James Nuechterlein, pp. 54-58
    8. Why They Don't Write 'em Like They Used To by Terry Teachout, pp. 59-64
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      1. When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
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    1. Letters, pp. 3-20
    2. Defending and Advancing Freedom, p. 21
    3. --- by Paul Berman, p. 22
    4. --- by Max Boot, p. 23
    5. --- by William F. Buckley, Jr., p. 24
    6. --- by Eliot A. Cohen, pp. 25-26
    7. --- by Niall Ferguson, p. 27
    8. --- by Aaron L. Friedberg, p. 28
    9. --- by Francis Fukuyama, p. 29
    10. --- by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., pp. 30-31
    11. --- by Reuel Marc Gerecht, p. 32
    12. --- by Victor Davis Hanson, p. 33
    13. --- by Owen Harries, pp. 34-35
    14. --- by Mark Helprin, p. 36
    15. --- by Daniel Henninger, p. 37
    16. --- by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 38-39
    17. --- by Josef Joffe, p. 40
    18. --- by Paul Johnson, p. 41
    19. --- by Robert Kagan, p. 42
    20. --- by William Kristol, p. 43
    21. --- by Robert J. Lieber, pp. 44-45
    22. --- by Richard Lowry, p. 46
    23. --- by Edward N. Luttwak, p. 47
    24. --- by Joshua Muravchik, pp. 48-49
    25. --- by John O'Sullivan, p. 50
    26. --- by Martin Peretz, p. 51
    27. --- by Richard Perle, pp. 52-53
    28. --- by Daniel Pipes, p. 54
    29. --- by Richard Pipes, p. 55
    30. --- by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 56-57
    31. --- by David Pryce-Jones, p. 58
    32. --- by Arch Puddington, p. 59
    33. --- by Natan Sharansky, pp. 60-61
    34. --- by Amir Taheri, p. 62
    35. --- by Ruth Wedgwood, p. 63
    36. --- by George Weigel, pp. 64-65
    37. --- by James Q. Wilson, p. 66
    38. --- by R. James Woolsey, pp. 67-68
    39. Sailing to Ithaca by Hillel Halkin, pp. 69-76
    40. God, Man, the Devil---and Thomas Mann by Thomas L. Jeffers, pp. 77-83
    41. The Dorsey Sound by Terry Teachout, pp. 84-88
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      Soldiers of Fortune by Gabriel Schoenfeld, pp. 89-91 - 1 Review
      1. Imperial Grunts by Robert D. Kaplan
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      Over the Wall by Adam Wolfson, pp. 92-96 - 1 Review
      1. Divided by God by Noah Feldman
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      After the Flood by Michael Weingrad, pp. 97-100 - 1 Review
      1. Collected Poems, 1954-2004 by Irving Feldman
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      Behind the Blacklist by Mark Falcoff, pp. 101-103 - 1 Review
      1. Red Star Over Hollywood by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh
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      Classic by Clifford Orwin, pp. 104-110 - 1 Review
      1. A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
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    1. Letters, pp. 3-26
    2. Who Is Lying About Iraq? by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 27-33
    3. The Storm Over Katrina by Wilfred M. McClay, pp. 34-41
    4. Europe's "Good Jews" by Emanuele Ottolenghi, pp. 42-46
    5. The First Genocide of the 20th Century by Guenther Lewy, pp. 47-52
    6. Forgetting Edmund Wilson by Joseph Epstein, pp. 53-58
    7. Sutzkever's Ascent---A Memoir by David G. Roskies, pp. 59-63
    8. This Is Your Brain on Nanobots by Kevin Shapiro, pp. 64-68
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      1. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005 Film) by George Clooney
      2. Capote (2005 Film) by Bennett Miller
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      Nomads by Hillel Halkin, pp. 73-77 - 1 Review
      1. The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
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