National Review articles from November 2001

National Review archives from November 2001

For the Record.(quotations from President Bush on the terrorist attack, and other topics)(includes other quotes from other sources)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... -- President Bush: "Our nation has experienced one of the darkest moments in our history." . . . "I gave them fair warning and they chose not to heed it." . . . "This will be a long war. It requires understanding and patience from the American...

The Week.(mayoral primary election in New York City)(this and other topics are discussed)
November 5, 2001... -- Mark Green edged out Fernando Ferrer in the New York mayoral primary-Democratic, of course-but Ferrer demanded a recount, owing to certain ballot irregularities. Okay, let's have a recount: and at the end, can Rudy Giuliani win? -- The...

The Middle East: State of Refusal.(the ongoing issue about a Palestinian state)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... President Bush joins a long list of people who have kicked around the idea of a Palestinian state, only to be kicked by it in return. The United Nations partitioned British-held Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states as long ago as 1947,...

The Home Front: On Being Alert.(war against terrorism)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... Once again, the bin Ladenite murderers have done us an unintentional favor. September 11 at least had the effect of showing that we were in a war, and who our enemies were. The anthrax scare has given us a dry run for biological assault. ...

The economy: Empty Treasury.(Republicans seem to have no coherent economic policy)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... The anthrax scare should make the administration more inclined to cast as wide a net as possible in the war on terrorism, lest we leave the threat alive. For the rest of us, the best response is to go out and have a drink. Remember that the...

In Stockholm: The Right Choice.(2001 Nobel Prize for Literature: V. S. Naipaul)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... Like the great masters of the past, V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful. Simple strong words, with which to express the humanity of everyone. ...

Notes & Asides.
November 5, 2001... -- Dear Mr. Buckley: This photo of our baby daughter speaks well, I think, to the allure of National Review. And apparently the magazine's appeal isn't limited to readable content-a few seconds after I snapped this, she began to taste its pages...

What We're Not Fighting For: The list includes short skirts, dancing, and secularism.(war against terrorism)
November 5, 2001... In the nation at large, the September massacres have revealed a persistent unity under the surface of our political and cultural divisions. Among liberals, however, they have uncovered a deep divide lying under surface agreement. Many liberal...

Ayatollah Attitude: Iran's place in the new war.(Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Iran must make choices concerning the support of terrorism)
November 5, 2001... The events of September 11 have dramatically reshaped the politics of the Middle East, and nowhere more so than in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran now faces a stark choice: It must abandon its sponsorship of terrorism or risk the possibility...

Security Blanket: Will it smother the nation's capital?(concern that the so-called 'Jersey barriers' will become a permanent part of Washington, D.C.)
November 5, 2001... Despite jitters about security, tourists coming to Washington these days can still enjoy all the sights: the White House, the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jersey Barrier. Actually, that last is not an official monument, but is fast...

Your Papers, Please: Against a national ID card.
November 5, 2001... In the present climate of concern about security, we have been hearing renewed calls for a national identity card. Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corp., which sells software for managing large databases, had a piece in the Wall Street...

Playing Nice?: That old devil 'bipartisanship'.
November 5, 2001... After a month of nerve-racking tension, the news came that the battle had finally been joined: "Congress Resumes Partisan Warfare," declared a New York Times headline. And the report was accurate: By mid October, Democrats were howling about...

Kofi's Hour: The absurd Nobel Peace Prize.(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... The Nobel Peace Prize is a little like the good-conduct prizes they used to award at my junior school: They went mainly to children who weren't much good at anything else, and weren't ruthless or imaginative enough to cause the teachers any...

Canines to the Rescue: Best friends, and examples.
November 5, 2001... It's been widely remarked that the only allies we can count on from "the first . . . to the last" (Tony Blair's words) are the British. In a sense, this is true: The loyalty of our friends across the pond is peerless. But as the images of...

The New Cold War: Familiar battle lines, unfortunately.
November 5, 2001... In front of our eyes, a new organizing principle is emerging in the world. Islamic extremism is an ideological challenge, and states have to respond to it accordingly. Another Cold War is taking shape. Its duration and scope are uncertain....

Fatal Contact: The Western influence on Islamic radicals.
November 5, 2001... The more we learn about the men who destroyed the World Trade Center, the more mysterious they seem. That mystery does not, however, reside in their foreignness. Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and various Muslim clerics with walk-on parts,...

Under Our Very Noses:The terrorist next door.
November 5, 2001... As U.S. and British bombs strafe Afghanistan's sparse landscape, it is comforting to think that we are striking at the heart of Islamic extremism. Yet while Osama bin Laden's network is clearly a major coordinating and breeding ground for...

In Castro's Service: The undertold story of Cuba's spying, and terror.
November 5, 2001... 'Attencion! Attencion!" snaps the female voice in Spanish at the start of each broadcast. To all but a few listeners, the message that follows is perfectly unintelligible: a long series of seemingly random numbers that drone on for 50 minutes....

The Economic Imperative: Bush and the Republicans cannot let this drop.
November 5, 2001... The post-September 11 spirit of bipartisanship was suddenly shattered during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting, when Republicans suggested a capital-gains tax cut as an emergency economic stimulus. Charlie Rangel of New York, the ranking...

Gotta Grow: Taxation in a time of war.(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... Tax cutting is a contact sport in Washington, but the Bush economic team appears not to understand this. They have been mau-maued by Democratic class warriors into accepting demand-side tax cuts, and ignoring one of the wise insights that won...

You Call This 'Stimulating'? :The Democrats' ignorant plan.
November 5, 2001... Senate majority leader Tom Daschle recently indicated to the Washington Post that he would "oppose any stimulus plan that contained permanent tax cuts." According to the Post, he also "made it clear that he thought that several of Bush's...

The Long View.(Brief Article)(Column)
November 5, 2001... Search for: CIPRO 2890 items found for CIPRO Showing items 1-5 Cipro Antibiotics! 10 tabs in original prescription bottle! Just enough to get one person through it. Two if you're feeling generous. $450.00 12 bids Ends...

Crisis of the Old Order.(The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980)(Review)
November 5, 2001... The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, by Steven F. Hayward (Prima, 811 pp., $35) The theme of this splendid work of history, the first of two volumes, is the corruption and at length the catastrophe of modern...

Our Gal.(An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War)(Review)
November 5, 2001... An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War, by Midge Decter (HarperCollins, 234 pp., $24) Forthright to a fault-or a virtue-Midge Decter enjoys a well-deserved reputation for speaking her mind. In this new book, she lays her...

Fog of Wars.(War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals)(Review)
November 5, 2001... War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, by David Halberstam (Scribner, 544 pp., $28) In 1965, fresh from winning a Pulitzer for his stint in Saigon as a correspondent for the New York Times, the young David Halberstam...

Thoroughly Modern Millay.(What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay)(Review)
November 5, 2001... What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein (Holt, 299 pp., $26) Readers of National Review are now becoming acquainted with the poetry of Daniel Mark Epstein; his very fine...

Jackie, Oh!(singer Marilyn Horne)(Review)
November 5, 2001... An aging diva has to ask some hard questions: When to retire? How much decline to accept? When to quit opera? How long to hang on in song recitals? What to sing? Of course, different divas come up with different answers. Beverly Sills...

Shakespeare, Shaw & Co.(theater production)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, with its tree-lined streets and turn-of- the-last-century architecture, is an obligatory stop for busloads of garden-club members and Japanese tourists. The Prince of Wales Hotel is named for an earlier visitor,...

Culture Clash.(obituaries of terrorist victims)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... New York Times obituaries, along with the Times's wedding announcements, are the last American titles of nobility: the class distinctions awarded by professional egalitarians. If you are Hector Average or Maury Middle, you get a single line,...

On the Right.(Column)
November 5, 2001... Killing bin Laden Won't Do NEW YORK, OCTOBER 5 Tuesday's report was that the Bush administration had persuaded United Nations officials in New York that Osama bin Laden was indeed responsible for September 11. And the next day's...

Misanthrope's Corner.(America tries to adjust to the war against terrorism)(Brief Article)
November 5, 2001... Should we, can we, ever laugh again? This is the question of the hour, but at the risk of sounding unpatriotic I must admit that I already have-out loud, in fact. What led up to it was the 653rd discussion of anti-Arab profiling I was...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
November 19, 2001... I appreciate Naomi Schaefer's largely favorable review of my book Common Prayers ("Neither Nor," Oct. 15). However, I never predicted or advocated the "death of God" theology. In The Secular City I devoted the entire last chapter to an attack...

For the Record.(Column)
November 19, 2001... -- Bush at Travis Air Force Base in California: "You mark my words: People are going to get tired of the war on terrorism. And by the way, it may take more than two years. There's a variety of theaters. So long as anybody's terrorizing...

The Week.(Column)
November 19, 2001... --At a big Madison Square Garden event, Hillary was booed, Bill was cheered. Win some, lose some. -- Will the Arab street hate us for fighting in Afghanistan during Ramadan? Sure-but they will hate us for not fighting too. The cry about...

Notes & Asides.(Column)
November 19, 2001... Remarks by WFB at a dinner honoring Robert L. Bartley, October 17. The master of ceremonies was Daniel Oliver, and other speakers were David Frum, Christopher Buckley, Tom Wolfe, and Paul Gigot. Christopher Buckley's toast is reproduced first:...

AT WAR: Not-So-Special Operation: Bush adopts the Clinton way of war.
November 19, 2001... When it comes to America's ongoing war to destroy al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban, any outcome short of decisive victory is simply unacceptable. But as President Bush and other members of his administration have repeatedly emphasized, the...

AT WAR: Treason of the Cleric:The spiritual father of bin Ladenism.
November 19, 2001... The September 11 terrorists lived for a long period with the certain knowledge that they were preparing their own deaths. Nineteenth-century nihilists and bomb-throwers and Bolsheviks also planned long term to sacrifice their lives for the...

AT WAR: Liberation, Not Containment: How to win the war on Wahhabism.
November 19, 2001... To win a war, you must first identify the enemy. In our current war, the enemy's name is Wahhabism. The Wahhabis, based in Saudi Arabia, are the extremist sect that provides religious support for the horrors inflicted by Osama bin Laden...

AT WAR: Identity Unknown: The case for civilizational confidence.
November 19, 2001... Seville Atop this city's vast Gothic cathedral-built in a century-long surge of pious enthusiasm following the Christian Reconquista of Moorish Andalusia-stands the figure of Faith. The irony of making Faith a weathervane has often been...

AT WAR: Trouble Area: The failure of Middle Eastern studies.
November 19, 2001... American intervention in the Middle East will cause "massive unrest throughout the Arab world." The international coalition built to support it won't hold, because the U.S. declines to condemn Israel-and Muslim countries can't "withstand this...

The Jersey Crusader: Bret Schundler, against the odds.
November 19, 2001... Ewing Township, N.J. It's half an hour before the penultimate debate in the race for governor of New Jersey, and IUPAT-that's the union of "painters, tapers, glaziers, and allied trades"-is out in force. On the green in front of the...

Porn, Pervasive Presence: The creepy wallpaper of our daily lives.
November 19, 2001... The subject is pornography and Pervasive Presence. That last is a legal term meaning-it's everywhere. Is it really everywhere? In February I picked up the current Esquire. The issue began with letters-to-the- editor. Readers gave their opinions...

Getting Aroused: What it takes to combat porn.
November 19, 2001... So, what is to be done? What can be done to reduce what Mr. Buckley has cited as the "pervasive presence" of porn? Quite a bit, actually. We are not helpless in the face of this problem. Those who toil in the anti-pornography field say that...

The Long View.(Brief Article)(Column)
November 19, 2001... The Crisis Adviser Dear Adviser: My husband comes home from work and is very closemouthed about his day and everything and never wants to just talk or whatever. And we never go anywhere nice, and when he gets the clicker it's just...

Major Barbara.(The Final Days: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House)(Review)
November 19, 2001... The Final Days: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House, by Barbara Olson (Regnery, 258 pp., $27.95) The 1990s, as a political era, began on September 10, 1991, with the hearings on the...

Mr. Nixon Selects.(The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court)(Review)
November 19, 2001... The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court, by John W. Dean (Free Press, 333 pp., $26) 'Who the hell is that clown?" President Richard M. Nixon asked an aide after a White House meeting...

Shaving off the Fringe.(A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism)(Review)
November 19, 2001... A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism, by Jonathan M. Schoenwald (Oxford, 338 pp., $35) The great political story of our time is the collapse of American liberalism and its standard-bearer, the New Deal Democratic...

No Third Rail.(Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century)(Review)
November 19, 2001... Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, by John Hood (Templeton, 308 pp., $24.95) In the post-Reagan era, conservatives have aggressively pursued two...

Master Craftsman.(artist Thomas Eakins)
November 19, 2001... Born in Philadelphia in 1844, Thomas Eakins is one of America's few indisputably great painters. His friend Walt Whitman-the subject of a splendid 1888 portrait by Eakins-insisted that he was not so much a painter as a "force": high praise from...

SHELF LIFE - Hits and Mises.(five books on various subjects)(Review)(Brief Article)
November 19, 2001... The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has added a couple of impressive new volumes to its Library of Modern Thinkers series. Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics (226 pp., $14.95) by Israel M. Kirzner is a lucid exposition of the work of...

On the Right.(Saddam Hussein's likely connection with terrorism)(this and other topics are discussed)
November 19, 2001... Evidence Against Iraq? NEW YORK, OCTOBER 9 Robert novak, much admired in this quarter, reported on his Crossfire program that conservatives were deeply divided on the matter of whether the United States should strike out against Saddam...

The Misanthrope's Corner.(comments on the film 'Riding in Cars with Boys,' and on Jack the Ripper)(Review)
November 19, 2001... We have an emergency. I compiled a sheaf of notes and file-named them Terror3.NR, but faced with the prospect of turning them into a column, I suddenly found that I couldn't go on. Writing three columns in a row about Sept. 11 is like listening...