NRO Digest: Chuck Hagel would be a very poor choice for secretary of defense

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December 20, 2012
Today on National Review Online . . .

THE EDITORS: Chuck Hagel would be a very poor choice for secretary of defense. The Hagel Zeitgeist.

ELIANA JOHNSON: There's more than just anti-Israel sentiments haunting Hagel's prospects. New Fronts Open in War Against Hagel.

RAMESH PONNURU: Robert Bork's infamous Ninth Amendment remark is quite defensible. Judge Bork's Ink Blot.

CONRAD BLACK: The world's democracies burgeon, sometimes in outlandish ways. Global Partisan Chaos.

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: What could have stopped Adam Lanza? Our Sociopaths, Ourselves.

ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: Regulating digital violence cannot reduce crime. The Folly of Blaming Video Games.

CHARLES C. W. COOKE: Adam Lanza's abomination is not a phenomenon peculiar to modern America. Running Amok.

MICHAEL JAMES BARTON: States have a compelling interest to involuntarily treat any mentally ill person prone to violence. Massacres and Mental Illness.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What happened to Obama's post-racial America? The New Racial-Derangement Syndrome.

CLIFFORD D. MAY: Israel's proposed plan to build in E1 wouldn't shatter a possible two-state solution. Jews in the Judean Desert?

MICHAEL BARONE: In an important respect, it's good we're not the way we were. A Better America.

PONNURU: Boehner's current proposal could move the messaging a bit in Republicans' direction.The Point of Plan B.

PATRICK BRENNAN: Treasury is finally unwinding the government's stake in GM. Taking Account of the Auto Bailouts. 

 

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: Midge Decter and Mona Charen look at the notion that women can "have it all." Midge Decter & Mona Charen: Chapter 4. 

 

 

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