Articles from National Review (August 27, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Ethnic studies" is of course a bogus academic discipline, its topics adequately covered, in any well-organized university, by the departments of anthropology, sociology, history, and linguistics.			199
"Scott Thomas," the soldier who, as Baghdad diarist for The New Republic, reported gross and inhumane behavior committed by American troops in Iraq, has a surname: His name is Scott Thomas Beauchamp.			192
"The West is born of Christianity, and the crisis of the West is that it isn't Christian anymore.".			195
"There is such a thing in politics," said Martin Van Buren (D., N.Y.), "as killing a man too dead.".			174
... Get a dog.	O'Beirne, Kate		1200
A doctor, but whose? Diagnosing the disorder in the surgeon general's office.	Levin, Yuval		1444
A dreadful tale of squalor and injustice tells you all you need to know about Muammar Qaddafi and the way he runs Libya.		Brief article	207
After astronaut Lisa Nowak tried to kidnap her love rival earlier this year, NASA commissioned an independent review of astronaut health care.			151
After saying he would meet with enemies of our country.			21
Barack Obama rattled his saber at Pakistan early this month.			157
Between the Senate energy bill and the energy bill the House just passed, it's hard to say which is worse.			185
Bleeding kuomintang.	Yang, Alex; Nordlinger, Jay	Letter to the editor	231
Break out the asterisks.			127
Bulwark of liberty.	Wilcox, W. Bradford		1112
Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was killed in what police describe as an assassination.			170
Cruising for booze.	France, Donald C.	Letter to the editor	95
During a recent candidate forum, Clinton and Obama both said that if there were a draft, which they oppose, young men and women alike should be conscripted to serve in the military.			202
Excuses, excuses.	Astel, Nestor Jose	Letter to the editor	162
FISA fumbles.			578
Fog of history.	Frum, David		1651
Has any case against a lower-court nominee been weaker or more disgraceful than the Democrats' case against Leslie H. Southwick, Bush's nominee for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals?			136
In China's Tibet: the way life goes in a thoroughly occupied country.	Steorts, Jason Lee		1597
Interesting people, yes ... but, sadly, not absorbing.	Dalrymple, Theodore		1550
Is he for real? Assessing non-non-candidate Fred Thompson.	York, Byron	Cover story	3938
Justice league.	Goldberg, Jonah		576
Let's do the Ponzi flip! The real-estate market cruises for a bruising.	Long, Rob		905
Obama at the tiller.	von Dreele, W.H.		36
Re: Bourne.	Douthat, Ross		1046
Risky operation: socialized medicine comes at a cost.	O'Sullivan, John		1353
Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz sued Cambridge University Press for libel after it published a book last year that named Mahfouz as a sponsor of terror.			164
Since Mao Tse-tung, back in the 1950s, succeeded in recreating the old Manchu empire, the Communist government of mainland China has had the problems colonial powers always have with disgruntled subject populations.			196
Sinking in the West: Ted Stevens's last hurrah?	Freddoso, David		1223
Someday to Fuji.	Reeser, Jennifer	Poem	134
Summer in Baghdad.".			507
The bard of optimism.	Smith, Kyle		1538
The collapse of the Interstate 35 W bridge in Minneapolis was the Garrison Keillor Katrina: a failure of infrastructure, now in the upper Midwest, that riveted America's attention.			151
The death, at age 89, of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was greeted, by cineastes as well as theists, with shrugs.			133
The Democratic Congress is determined to send President Bush a bill expanding the federal program that provides health coverage to middle-class families.			166
The Democratic presidential candidates skipped the annual conference of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, but trooped over to the one affiliated with dailykos.com and other left-wing blogs.			94
The Eritrea-Ethiopia War of 1998-2000 generated many refugees, among them over 4,200 Kunamas, Eritrean pastoralists who took the wrong side in that war and now live in a camp across the border in north Ethiopia.			195
The FBI raided the home of Republican senator Ted Stevens in connection with a corruption case it is investigating in his state, Alaska.			205
The house of Chambers ... and the assault of the local bureaucrats.	Miller, John J.		1765
The inner thoughts of Gordon Brown, the recent successor in Downing Street to Tony Blair, are a wholly unknown quantity.			144
The long view.	Long, Rob		944
The record will show that we are not reflexive defenders of attorney general Alberto Gonzales.			261
The rogue vogue.	King, Florence		944
The U.S. and India finally hammered out the details of their agreement to share nuclear technology.			170
What is being characterized as a "Saudi arms deal" is provoking opposition on both the right and the left.			196
Why Bush smiles.	von Dreele, W.H.		45
With a $5 billion ring, Rupert Murdoch wed the Wall Street Journal.			181
With their conspicuous pocket protectors, their too-short pants showing an expanse of white sock, their love of gadgets, and their gaucherie around girls, nerds are perhaps the most familiar of all the strange, wild tribes that inhabit the modern American high school.			214