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The squandering of America

The introduction to Democracy, America, and the Age of Globalization by Jay R. Mandle. The big grapple: It seems that more of the world has begun to resemble professional wrestling, writes Gary Silverman as he reflects on the modern political life of the US. A review of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity by Robert Kuttner. Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal be hoping to discredit the very label conservative, so that it could be used as a cudgel the way liberal had been used by the Limbaughs of the world the past few decades. Melancholy liberalism: A review of Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents by Brian C. Anderson. A review of Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart by Patrick J. Buchanan. Patriots vs. patriots: New scandals fuel the old war between The New Republic and National Review. An interview with John Podhoretz, the newly anointed editor of Commentary. From Tradition, Family and Property, here's a personal account of the 2007 School of the Americas protest in Columbus, Georgia.