Articles from National Review (September 26, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being," was how Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz began an article celebrating the "activist stance" of emotional reporters covering Katrina's devastation.		Brief Article	179
'Racism!' they charged: when don't they?	McWhorter, John		1157
A particularly heartbreaking photographic sequence shows a huge mound of shoes on a bridge over the Tigris in Baghdad, and people picking over them as they search for missing relatives.		Brief Article	160
All the uglier: what Katrina whipped up.	Nordlinger, Jay		1619
As one watches armed gangs rape and pillage their way through New Orleans, it is easy to think like Hobbes: Sever the cords of law and order, and man's savagery will be unleashed at its ugliest.		Brief Article	148
As though we needed another reminder that terrorists are not just overseas, the Justice Department has indicted four men in Los Angeles for conspiring to wage war against the United States.		Brief Article	145
Bush's strategy, assessed: a symposium on the president's novel approach in the Middle East, and beyond.			4129
Curbing God's laws.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		661
Different down there: in America, but not entirely.	Long, Rob		1498
Disaster area.			451
End of Summer Sanity Quiz[TM].	Long, Rob		672
Every time China's Communist dictatorship gets a new public face, he is toasted as the great moderate hope.		Brief Article	169
Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have said that Mohamed Atta was identified as a potential terrorist long before the 9/11 attacks.		Brief Article	173
For a few days in August, visitors to London Zoo were treated to a new exhibit: Eight human beings, minimally clothed, and caged in a rocky enclosure behind a sign with the legend: "Warning: Humans in Their Natural Environment.".		Brief Article	155
For years, we said they blamed Bush for everything but the weather.			15
Forceful frauds.	Nadler, Richard	Book Review	1069
Hawaii five-no: the scourge of separatism.	Ramsay, Alston B.		1452
Help!!!!			25
Here is one of our occasional reports from the world of art, which, as regular readers will know, has come a long way from the casting of bronze horses and the painting of still lifes.			206
In his essay "Decline of the English Murder" George Orwell lamented the eclipse of "the old domestic poisoning dramas, product of a stable society where the all-prevailing hypocrisy did at least ensure that crimes as serious as murder should have strong emotions behind them.".		Brief Article	209
It would be a drab world of bourgeois conformity if there were not some colorful absolute monarch somewhere flaunting an extravagant lifestyle and exercising droit du seigneur over his female subjects.		Brief Article	218
Jude Wanniski, supply-side guru and occasional NR contributor, died age 69.		Obituary	24
Justice Scalia, in a California speech: "Now the Senate is looking for moderate judges, mainstream judges.		Brief Article	43
Look what's flying!	Buckley, William F., Jr.		663
Notes & asides.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		511
Of bureaucrats and bedsores.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Letter to the Editor	495
One of the many lessons of Hurricane Katrina is that great leaders aren't always on the scene when they're most needed: nobody is mistaking New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for Rudy Giuliani.		Brief Article	134
Overcoming Brezhnev: in Germany, that is.	Pryce-Jones, David		1527
Peddlers of racial grievance act like hyenas.		Brief Article	169
Racism in the Islamic World: how can peace prevail in the Middle East in the face of Islamic bigotry and hate? When will moderate Muslims speak out?			750
Raining race.	Goldberg, Jonah		612
Readers of Joe Haldeman's 1975 novel The Forever War, which described military life and manners in an imagined future, will recall that enlisted soldiers were expected to respond to the commands of their drill instructors with a loud and clear "F*** YOU, SIR!".		Brief Article	186
Rehnquist and his court.			702
Religious rights.	Levenick, Christopher		1335
Repeal the Bush tax increase.	Judd, Kenneth L.		518
Reporting while wrong: the New York Times peddles more 'driving while black' malarkey.	Mac Donald, Heather		1387
Robert Moog's contribution to the music of the spheres was a practical electronic synthesizer, which he developed in the Sixties.		Brief Article	131
Robertson's death wishes.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		715
Texas police said they stopped Al Sharpton's car as it was going 110 mph, trying to catch a plane after a meeting with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford.		Brief Article	80
The acid test.	Potemra, Michael		1902
The base-closing commission voted 8 to 1 to keep Ellsworth open, thereby avoiding collateral damage to South Dakota senator John Thune.		Brief Article	81
The blame game.			734
The city I knew: a small memoir.	Dreher, Rod		1496
The Disappearance.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	46
The draft Iraqi constitution is going to a referendum on October 15.		Brief Article	194
The good mission.	Hanson, Victor Davis	Book Review	1653
The government point: it's not conservatives who need the lesson.	Goldberg, Jonah		1260
The veneer of civilization: utterly removed.	Dalrymple, Theodore		1411
The Way I See It.	Reeser, Jennifer	Poem	114
The way Jude worked: remembering Wanniski.	Brookhiser, Richard		1185
There may be a handful of our readers who are unfamiliar with the name and career of Mr. Kanye West.		Brief Article	208
To have a pen, said Voltaire, is to have war, and Orhan Pamuk is learning this truth.		Brief Article	195
Tough Love.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	56
Trial lawyers love drug companies: with deep pockets, poor reputations, and a customer base composed largely of people who are already sick and dying, they make the perfect targets for big-money lawsuits.		Brief Article	190
Walk on by.	Brookhiser, Richard	Column	994
Where the buck stops.	Gurdon, Meghan Cox		962
Wit, humor, weeds.	Wolan, Mary	Letter to the Editor	57
With only the flimsiest of conditionals, Pat Robertson called for the murder of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.		Brief Article	66