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The point of it all: a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Reveries of a newborn father
Irving Kristol: a great good man
Ronald Reagan: he could see for miles
Thomas Jefferson: the sublime oxymoron
Thank you, Isaiah Berlin
John Paul II: the power of faith
George Weidenfeld: Syrian Christians and the English Jew
Meg Greenfield: my editor, my friend
Why I love Australia
Rampway to heaven
Junk rights
Genius, insanity, innocence
Two Cromwells: separate and independent realities
Parenthesis to history
The Cold War memorials
Suffering a relapse, and loving it
The tyranny of chess
Revenge, American-style
Man vs. computer: still a match
The greatness gap
Why do they even play the game?
Jim Dickson's triumph
In sorrow and glory we find our common humanity
Front-page physics: why the news from beyond is beyond us
What Sputnik launched
Pluto and us
Space: the visionaries take over
Redeeming Columbia
A doctor's duty
Why doctors quit
Sick, tired and not taking it anymore
The twilight of psychotherapy
They die with their rights on
Five lives vs. one principle
Stem cells: mounting the slippery steps
The abortion debate: just words
The price of fetal parts
What to do for little Charlie Gard
Three pieces of sage advice
Apocalypse, with and without God
When modern medicine fails
The myth of "settled science"
Thought police on patrol
Suicide ad absurdum
Holiday: living on a return ticket
Shakespeare, ruined
Illusions of self-love
Assimilation nation
The tribalization of America
Counting by race
Redskins and reason
Neither ennobling nor degrading
On lowering the flag
Civil religion
and no religion
Just leave Christmas alone
Religion as taste
The miracle, at 60
The Holocaust and Jewish identity
Demystifying Judaism
How to fight academic bigotry
Do we really mean "Never again"?
How to deal with countries gone mad
The Iranian "moderate"
Middle East peace and the great Muslim civil war
The Bush legacy
Iraq, abandoned
The climate pact swindle
Russia rising
To die for Estonia?
Trump and the "Madman Theory"
In defense of fanatics
The death penalty and the Constitution
Finally getting it right on affirmative action
The right-to-work dilemma
Brexit: sovereign kingdom or Little England?
Trump derangement syndrome: you can't govern by id
Revolt of the attorneys general
American democracy: not so decadent after all
Constitutions, conservatism and the genius of the Founders
The meaning of human rights
When to intervene
The arrow of history
Trump's foreign policy revolution
After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over
The coming disillusionment of liberated Europe
The authoritarian temptation
An anniversary of sorts
Choosing a life
A statement of principle
Beauty and soul
A note to readers
Eulogy by Daniel Krauthammer.