Articles from National Review (December 19, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Ancestral voices prophesying war': the West must find a way to face them.	Pryce-Jones, David		1488
50 years later.	von Dreele, W. H.	Poem	48
A cross before werewolves ...	Wolfe, Tom		450
A man and his mag.			3971
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Empire-Slayer.	Mahoney, Daniel J.		1093
Alito's ordeal.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		792
Allan Bloom: Opening the American Mind.	Bellow, Adam		1205
American dilemma: problems of race still cry to be solved.	Wilson, James Q.		1498
Ariel Sharon has shaken the kaleidoscope of Israeli politics, and nobody can be sure what the outcome will be.		Brief Article	186
Bill Richardson has many credentials--congressman, energy secretary, governor of New Mexico--but he just lost one.		Brief Article	154
Bob Woodward isn't saying who told him about Valerie Plame.			20
Cause(s) and effect(s).	Dick, Anthony	Editorial	2410
Charles Murray: Ending Welfare As We Knew It.	Magnet, Myron		1122
Cheetahs are lovely creatures, and famously fleet of foot.		Brief Article	165
Conrad Black was indicted on eleven counts of wire and mail fraud in connection with his management of Hollinger International, a media company that at one time owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and the Daily Telegraph (London).		Brief Article	121
Constitution cons: that which unites conservatives.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1573
Dr. Tom Coburn, GOP senator from Oklahoma, continues to fight in the Senate for the right to continue his obstetrics practice.		Brief Article	115
Dresden was one of the most beautiful 18th-century cities, and its great church, known as the Frauenkirche, was a particular glory, its spectacular dome an architectural and a cultural monument.		Brief Article	181
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decent president--not the best, not the worst.		Brief Article	140
Enlist them: the president should do more to involve Americans in the war.	Decter, Midge		1109
Every Muscovite in all the Soviet years passed the Lubyanka with head down and eyes averted in order not to see or be seen.		Brief Article	179
Every year for more than three decades, Nova Scotia has given the city of Boston, Mass., a majestic Christmas tree.		Brief Article	117
Evidence points to the complicity of the clique running Syria in the murder of Rafik Hariri, the onetime Lebanese prime minister.		Brief Article	158
Farewell to Evelyn Waugh: and leave the 'happy darkie' to the multiculturalists.	Brookhiser, Richard		1309
Fun 'n' games: NR has not been for the grim-minded.	Buckley, Priscilla L.	Excerpt	1736
Galas galore: NR's 50th-anniversary dinner, held this October 6, was the tenth anniversary dinner in our history. Let's look back at those marvelous affairs.			309
GM's plan to cut 30,000 jobs and close all or part of twelve North American operations is, according to leaders of the United Auto Workers, "disappointing, unfair, and unfortunate".		Brief Article	209
Groucho Marx once said that humor is just reason gone mad.		Brief Article	159
Harry V. Jaffa: Giving Us Lincoln.	Kesler, Charles R.		1089
Here is a news item from the Friendly Giant to Our North--a country large and consequential enough, you would think, that a person who had once served as its minister of defense and deputy prime minister would be possessed of more than the average endowment of gravitas.		Brief Article	204
House Republicans finally won approval of a budget bill that will trim spending increases by $50 billion over the next five years.		Brief Article	136
How to increase liberty in America: ten suggestions.			4816
If President Bush's recent speech on immigration enforcement meant that he now understands how dismayed conservatives are about the chaotic, lawless state of our immigration system, that is an encouraging sign.		Brief Article	213
In a reflective mood: five key players look back.			2719
In these times: 2005 is better than 1955, by a damn sight.	Johnson, Paul		1601
It's official.		Brief Article	239
James Burnham: Dissecting Modern Liberalism.	Pipes, Richard		1072
Jimmy Carter must be our most pompous president ever.		Brief Article	184
Lamb and Lynx Gaede are winsome 13-year-old twin sisters from California's Central Valley who perform as the singing duo Prussian Blue.		Brief Article	193
Magic moments.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	59
Michael Oakeshott: The Anti-Rationalist.	Minogue, Kenneth		1048
Milton & Rose Friedman: Liberty's Couple.	Lindsey, Lawrence B.		1187
Notes & asides.			1566
Notes on the State of Virginia: centuries after Moll Flanders, an Englishman comes ashore.	Scruton, Roger		1693
On the other hand ...	Buckley, William F., Jr.		680
Paul Johnson: The All-Explainer.	Kimball, Roger		1111
President Bush said he had a "good, frank discussion" during his recent trip to China about our relationship, which he called "complex ... good, vibrant, strong".		Brief Article	195
Stanley "Tookie" Williams founded the Crips gang in 1971, when he was 17 years old.		Brief Article	110
The black X that appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney's head on CNN as he was giving a speech was the result of a "very, very insignificant" technical malfunction, a CNN spokeswoman said.		Brief Article	55
The Bush administration blinked.		Brief Article	141
The crawl that appeared at the bottom of the CNN screen saying DIE, CHIMPHITLER, DIE, DIE, as President George W. Bush pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey, was the result of an "unfortunate" glitch, a CNN spokesman said.		Brief Article	56
The early, early years.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	48
The great 20th-century handoff: Great Britain to America.	O'Sullivan, John		1536
The large and noisy flock of chickens that disrupted President Bush and Vice President Cheney as they welcomed British prime minister Tony Blair to the White House was "inadvertently" released by a CNN sound man, a spokesperson for the network said.		Brief Article	69
The long view.	Long, Rob		788
The most politically perilous entitlement mentality congressional Republicans have failed to rein in is their own.		Brief Article	190
The mother of all anniversary issues.			642
The Thanksgiving holiday came and went, trailing behind it the long Thanksgiving weekend and all the hallowed and colorful traditions we associate with this fine, quintessentially American festival.		Brief Article	196
The torture question.	Goldberg, Jonah		568
Thomas Sowell: Seeing Clearly.	Murray, Charles		1008
To the battlefield.	Sowell, Thomas	Column	666
Tom Wolfe: Telling New York.	Teachout, Terry		1117
Trans-o-gram.	Putney, Kem		484
Unsung conservatives: fifteen who made a difference.	Miller, John J.		1619
What NR has meant to me: wherein a host of people testify.			4184
When special counsel Peter J. Fitzgerald announced his five-count indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, we noted that the charges against him "may look weaker with time".		Brief Article	119
Where we stand.			632
Wild hits on Jordan.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		648
Without which conservatism is stillborn: culture is not something for which you can buy a ticket; it is cradle and crucible.	Helprin, Mark		1692
Zimbabwe, under the rule of President-for-Life Robert Mugabe, slips ever further back into the bush.		Brief Article	118