June 2013

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  My Sister Rachel

  By John Podhoretz

  
  

Articles

• The Case for Drones

  Kenneth Anderson

  The United States can now wage war in a more nimble, low-risk, and humane fashion than ever before.

• The ObamaCare Blame Game

  Tevi Troy

  Who will be held to account for the Affordable Care Act?

Fiction

• Past Due

  Christine Sneed

  The short story for June.

Politics & Ideas

• Gray Matter Chatter

  Robert Herritt

  A review of Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld's Brainwashed

• Vali of Doom

  Sohrab Ahmari

  A review of Vali Nasr's The Dispensable Nation

• Beyond Good, Quite Evil

  Andrew Roberts

  A review of Yvonne Sherratt's Hitler's Philosophers

Culture & Civilization

• Exit Laughing

  Rick Richman

  A review of Ruth R. Wisse's No Joke

• How Hitler Destroyed German Music

  Terry Teachout

  The untold story of the lost composers.

• Widow's Peak

  Fernanda Moore

  A review of Elinor Lipman's The View from Penthouse B

• Turncoat in a Toga

  Stephen Daisley

  A review of Frederic Raphael's A Jew Among Romans

• The Los Angeles Times Earthquake

  Andrew Ferguson

  Press Man

John Podhoretz

• The Second-Term Curse

  John Podhoretz

  From the Editor

Threat Assessment

• Disappearing Red Lines

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  A monthly compendium by Jonathan S. Tobin

Letters

• Republican Recovery

  Our Readers

  Responses to Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner's "How to Save the Republican Party"

Enter Laughing

• The Firing Squad Joke

  Our joke for June