Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. It’s all too easy to think of the unmourned Bush era as an aberration—an unsteady compound of crisis, ideology, and ambition that produced a fearful consolidation of ...
The Newseum, the latest addition to Washington’s sprawling, preening, self-singing monument-memorial complex, may boast a constitutional amendment engraved on its $450 million façade, and an outsized collection of press arcana, but it beckons to the ...
THEY KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT: THE RISE OF THE NEOCONS By Jacob Heilbrunn Doubleday, 319 pages, $26 The wizards of modern brand management have nothing on the obstreperous group of warrior intellectuals known as the neoconservatives. After all, the neocon ...
Joel Osteen wants you to stand up straight. "Even many good, godly people have gotten into a bad habit of slumping and looking down," Osteen writes in his best-selling self-improvement tract Become a Better You. "[Y]ou need to put your shoulders back, ...
As the bromides and bunkum of primary season lurch into caucus-eve overdrive in Iowa, the rest of the world has upstaged the election-addled news cycle. A new Osama bin Laden video, a Colombian hostage crisis and—most of all—the assassination of former ...
<!--paging_filter--><p><span>It used to be such a simple thing for Republican candidates to position themselves as modern conservative leaders of the faith. </span><br /> <p class="text"><span>You’d ...
<!--paging_filter--><p>HEROIC CONSERVATISM: WHY REPUBLICANS NEED TO EMBRACE AMERICA’S IDEALS (AND WHY THEY DESERVE TO FAIL IF THEY DON’T)</strong><br />By Michael J. Gerson<span><br /><em>HarperOne, 302 pages, $2 ...
The Democratic primary field seems to operate under a hidden dictum of reverse momentum, not unlike some new strain of antimatter: Anytime the battle for early advantage in the race tightens, the actual content of the struggle goes slack. The process ...
The media makes inevitability narratives, and the media can just as unilaterally break them. Pundits and political observers fabricate them out of little more than their own hack impressions of “What It Takes” and “The Way to Win,” to cite but two ...
FAITH IN THE HALLS OF POWER: HOW EVANGELICALS JOINED THE AMERICAN ELITEBy D. Michael Lindsay. Oxford University Press, 332 pages, $24.95 Ever since George W. Bush’s narrow reelection in 2004, American evangelicals have bulked up in the country’s ...
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