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Brave and Rational

From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…

The Bush Administration reversed itself and declared that non-Iraqis captured fighting in Iraq are not protected by the Geneva Conventions; such prisoners, it was reported, have already been transferred out…

The tyranny of petty coercion

by Marilynne Robinson,

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

An American cattleman. In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general,…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Chile’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested, in Chile.The terms of the amnesty he negotiated upon his abdication included murder but not kidnapping, and the bodies of nineteen people…