Featured Articles — August 4, 2008

August 4, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes From Home and Abroad:

How to Pick a V.P. By William Kristol
When you try to talk with McCain staffers about vice-presidential prospects, as I did last week, the normally garrulous become guarded and the usually talkative turn taciturn. Still, here’s what I was able to discern.

Building on Progress in Iraq By Stephen Biddle, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack
The Iraq war has become one of the most polarizing issues in American politics. Most Democrats, including Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), want large, early troop cuts; most Republicans, including Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), want U.S. troops to stay until Iraq’s stability is guaranteed.

The Future of Conservative Books By Harry Stein
As mainstream publishers’ flirtation with the Right cools, smaller houses are stepping in.

It’s time for education reform By John McCain
Campaigning at town halls across America, I am often asked about my plans to reform our public schools. And the answer begins with two points on which most everyone agrees: Every public school child deserves a first-rate education. And too many of our schools are producing second-rate results.

The Race Issue Isn’t Going Away By Juan Williams
With polls showing the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama getting closer, a question is now looming larger and larger. Is skin color going to be the deciding factor?

Climate hysterics v heretics in an age of unreason By Arthur Herman
IT has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.

Olympics, Inc. By Joseph Sternberg
Let’s admit it: The Games are a business.

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