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    1. Obama's Enemies List
      Peter Wehner
    2. Islamist Extremism and the Murder of Daniel Pearl
      Joseph I. Lieberman
    3. Why Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense
      Steven Price
    4. How Politics Destroyed a Great TV Show
      Jonah Goldberg
      October 2009
    5. Why Are Jews Liberals?—A Symposium
      David Wolpe, Jonathan D. Sarna, Michael Medved, William Kristol and Jeff Jacoby
      September 2009

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Higher Immigration, Lower Crime

Daniel Griswold

Today’s “underclass” of newcomers seeks a day’s work, not a drug deal.

In "Jew Be Not Proud," David Gelernter addresses criticism engendered by his new book, Judaism: A Way of Being, and defends its central thesis: "Judaism is the most important intellectual development in Western history. The best ideas we have come straight from Judaism."

Palestinians See Netanyahu as a "Man of His Word"

12:26 PM, 12.22.09

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is trying hard to blame Israel for the absence of ...

A Slice, and Only a Slice, of Reality in the Afghan National Army

12:13 PM, 12.22.09

YouTube has posted this clip about the Afghan army, which was made by Guardian Films, an affiliate ...

The Black Panther Case's January Deadlines

11:42 AM, 12.22.09

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, I am informed, will be moving forward on two fronts with its ...

The Cornhusker Highjack and the Constitution

10:54 AM, 12.22.09

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska was handsomely bribed to vote for cloture on the health-care bill. ...

Virginia Backlash?

9:36 AM, 12.22.09

The Washington Post highlights the four vulnerable Democratic congressmen who will need to face ...

We're Number Two?

Thomas W. Hazlett

High-speed Internet access is the latest object of statistical gamesmanship designed to make America look like it’s failing.

The 35-Year War on the CIA

Arthur Herman

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The campaign to discredit the agency continues to be a leftist obsession.

False Certainty

John Podhoretz

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The 35-Year War on the CIA

Arthur Herman

The campaign to discredit the agency continues to be a leftist obsession.

The Missile-Defense Betrayal

Kejda Gjermani

The president’s abrogation of his predecessor’s agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic inaugurates a new era in which America’s word will not be its bond.

We're Number Two?

Thomas W. Hazlett

High-speed Internet access is the latest object of statistical gamesmanship designed to make America look like it’s failing.

The Illegal-Settlements Myth

David M. Phillips

In late November, Israel declared a 10-month freeze in the construction of new settlements in the West Bank, a concession to those who argued that such settlements were both illegal and an obstacle to peace. David Phillips deconstructs the myth of "illegal" settlements and sheds light on what's truly at stake: the survival of the Jewish state itself.

"Dictatorships and Double Standards" Redux

Ilan Wurman

Jeane Kirkpatrick’s seminal article and what it has to teach us about the condition of Obama’s foreign policy.

Tribeca Tale

Karl Taro Greenfeld

In the long afternoon light, the yellow glow extending down the West-East thoroughfares from river to river, casting businessmen and bums and wives and bike messengers all, for a moment, in halo-like glow, so that the most repugnant and repulsive among us looked, for an instant, blessed and beatific, it was too easy to imagine that we had found our noble plot. The end of history—hadn’t Rankin heard that?

A Serious Film

Ruth R. Wisse

The Coen brothers offer a surprising take on Jews and Judaism.

Doing a Reverse Bowdler

Christine Rosen

The success of a literary “mashup” and what it says about us.

Whatever Happened to Preston Sturges

Terry Teachout

Writer, director, burnout, cynic.

Trotsky, by Robert Service
Reviewed by Peter Savodnik
Mitzvah Girls, by Ayala Fader
Reviewed by David Wolpe
Why Are Jews Liberals? Our Readers Respond

Letters in response to Commentary's Symposium on “Why Are Jews Liberals?”

Tangling with Tehran

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