Contentions
June 2013
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Articles
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The Case for Drones
Kenneth AndersonThe United States can now wage war in a more nimble, low-risk, and humane fashion than ever before.
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The ObamaCare Blame Game
Tevi Troy
Fiction
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Past Due
Christine Sneed
Politics & Ideas
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Gray Matter Chatter
Robert HerrittA review of Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld's Brainwashed
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Vali of Doom
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Beyond Good, Quite Evil
Andrew Roberts
Culture & Civilization
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Exit Laughing
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How Hitler Destroyed German Music
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Widow's Peak
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Turncoat in a Toga
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The Los Angeles Times Earthquake
Andrew Ferguson
John Podhoretz
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The Second-Term Curse
John Podhoretz
Threat Assessment
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Disappearing Red Lines
Jonathan S. Tobin
Letters
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Republican Recovery
Our ReadersResponses to Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner's "How to Save the Republican Party"
Enter Laughing
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Welcome to Weekend Reading, a new feature at contentions: thought-provoking selections from the COMMENTARY archive to help tide you over until Monday. One of the great pleasures of being a part of COMMENTARY lies in our ability to give our readers glimpses into the magazine’s fascinating past. This weekend we’d like to offer you a handful of stories that first appeared in our pages (in three cases, for the first time in English) and that are among the acknowledged greats of the 20th century. Enjoy.
First Love
Isaac Babel
Looking for Mr. Green
Saul Bellow
Forevermore
S. Y. Agnon
Idiots First
Bernard Malamud
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Envy; or, Yiddish in America
Cynthia Ozick