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Although the bulk of each edition of the Standard is devoted to political news and analysis, Kristol??s anthology is chock-full of trenchant cultural criticism. One particularly strong example is a 1999 article by an English professor at the University of Virginia professor, Paul A. Cantor, analyzing the threat that the end of the Cold War posed to professional wrestling...
...Kristol??s volume also does not include West Point history professor Kimberly Kagan’s May 2002 article arguing that the United States, although “hegemonic,” is not “imperialistic.” This omission is rather surprising because Kristol has assigned the article to undergrads in the course that he is co-teaching this semester, Government 1792, “Intellectual Foundations of American Foreign Policy...
...live in glass houses ought not to throw stones—even if those men are journalists. The Standard anthology commits many errors of omission in its own right—and Kristol had only a decade, rather than a century, of back-issues to browse through. Kristol??s anthology is guilty of the same “self-congratulations” for which Terzian attacks the Times magazine...
...first lady, and interrogating the couple on how a truly romantic husband could buy his wife rhododendrons for a birthday present. The Deans comported themselves with notable dignity under Sawyer’s vicious, distasteful interrogation. Her vitriol was hardly unique. Even The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol??not known for his liberalism, to say the least—said that “the media really turned on Dean.” Just last week, longtime political journalist William Greider wrote in The Nation that he had talked to a handful of top campaign reporters...