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  Press Man: Why They Wept for Hitchens

  By Andrew Ferguson

  
  

Articles

• The Big Lie Returns

  Ben Cohen

  How anti-Semites are asserting their right to define 'anti-Semitism'—and why the culture is allowing them to do it.

• Iran's Gambit in Latin America

  Roger F. Noriega

  Washington has been dangerously slow to counter the Islamic Republic's provocations close to home.

• ObamaCare at the Supreme Court

  Tevi Troy

  What will be at stake when the Justices hear the most controversial case of the 21st century?

• The Payroll-Tax Holiday from Hell

  Ira Stoll

  Republican confusion and the creation of a political debacle.

• The Ultra-Orthodox on the Warpath

  Mati Wagner

  Anxiety is driving religious conflict between secular Israelis and haredim.

• The Worldwide Attack on Christians

  David Aikman

  From Egypt to North Korea, an unlikely minority suffers a plague of persecution.

Politics & Ideas

• Condi's Lessons

  Rick Richman

  A review of Condoleezza Rice's "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington"

• Spun Silk

  Arthur Waldron

  A review of Joshua Kurlantzick's "The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War"

• A Portrait of Success

  Sol Stern

  A review of Barry Rubin's "Israel: An Introduction"

• The War Decade

  Michael Rosen

  A review of Dean Reuter and John Yoo's "Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security"

• Blame Canada

  Max Boot

  A review of Eliot A. Cohen's "Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War"

Culture & Civilization

• Charles Dickens and His Women

  Thomas L. Jeffers

  Why an enormously entertaining novelist can be a hard sell.

• The Producer

  Terry Teachout

  Remembering John Houseman.

• Eco's Protocols

  D.G. Myers

  The February fiction chronicle.

John Podhoretz

• Decline Has Been Chosen

  John Podhoretz

  From the editor.

Threat Assessment

• Hamas's Unchanged Heart

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Threat Assessment

Letters

• Setting Nazis Free

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Kevin J. Madigan's “How the Catholic Church Sheltered Nazi War Criminals”

• Giving Reagan His Due

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Steven Hayward's “The Liberal Misappropriation of a Conservative President”

• Educating the Revolutionaries

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Joshua Muravchik's “Neoconservatives and the Arab Spring”

• Nice Conductors Finish Last?

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to Terry Teachout's "Hard Szell"

• Radio Jonestown

  Our Readers

  Letters in response to George Russell's "The Left's Great Crime"

Enter Laughing

• The Herring Joke

  Our joke for February