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Articles in July 4, 2005 issue of National Review

• The Venice Biennale, a leading showcase for avant-garde art, opened in mid-June
• A bankrupt idea
  by Frank J. Russo, Jr.
• President Bush pressed Congress to renew the Patriot Act
• Still movin' on up: the death of income mobility has been greatly exaggerated
  by Donald Luskin
• Dems, behind closed doors
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Capital Gang is going off the air, and all our television sets will become quieter, and less interesting
• The problem of Howard Dean
• An eleventh point
  by Frank Madarasz
• The end of the federalism revolution … if such a revolution had ever occurred
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• A case for mercy
• Save Thune! The White House might be a little more sympathetic to the junior senator from South Dakota
  by R. Andrew Newman
• It turns out that John Kerry and George W. Bush, Yale students of the mid-Sixties, were both solid C students
• Rep. Katherine Harris earned all the right enemies in 2000, when she was serving as Florida's secretary of state and played an important role in certifying George W. Bush's victory in Florida
• George Zeliotis, a 73-year-old retired salesman from Montreal, may have brought a bit of economic freedom to Canada
• What does it take to convince a court in Washington State that last year's gubernatorial election—"won" by Democrat Christine Gregoire by a 129-vote margin—was irredeemably flawed? Apparently, rock-solid evidence of dead people voting,
• A recent episode of the crime drama Tatort, which airs on taxpayer-funded German television and is watched by 7 million viewers, portrayed the brutal attacks of September 11 as the work of President Bush
• Dean's Situation
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Being Sharansky: on Russia, Israel, 'Reaganite readings'…
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Birkenstocks and stocks: 'Like everything else, investing is now politicized'
  by John J. Miller
• Who is MD4Bush?
• A host of Americans, from Jimmy Carter to Sen. Joe Biden to Sen. Mel Martinez, have called for shutting down Guantanamo
• Britain's Labour government has placed before Parliament a bill that will ban speech or writing "likely to stir up … religious hatred."
• Bush's Judges
• Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator from Nebraska, wants to be president
• Help!!!!
• Homeless no more?
  by Jeffrey M. Jones
• O'Sullivan's First Law states that all organizations that are not explicitly conservative become left-wing over time
• Those friendly English bobbies may be friendlier than you think
• The right man, if …
  by Richard Brookshiser
• In from the Garage
• Transcript: Larry King Live
  by Rob Long
• "Intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda … people who have no shame about what they're doing … people who have never been acquainted with the truth … it's only our Constitution and country at stake.&q
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed an executive order committing California to the world's most ambitious program for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions
• It's hard to imagine that President Bush could have made a better choice for chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission than Chris Cox, the former securities lawyer and market-oriented congressman from California
• As Congress debates the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it must decide not merely whether to advance America's economic interests, but also whether to reaffirm our decades-long commitment to Central American democracy
• notes & asides
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Assault on the Citadel
  by Michael Potemra
• The FBI arrested a father and his 22-year-old son when the latter admitted—after both had denied—that he had attended a jihadist training camp in Pakistan possibly run by al-Qaeda
• Twilight
  by Arthur Herman
• By a vote of 62-to-38 percent, Dutch voters gave the proposed European constitution a stinging nee, shortly after the French non
• Are they in the army now? Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Modern memory
  by Catesby Leigh
• It doesn't much matter who wins the Iranian presidential election, scheduled to take place the day after this issue goes to print
• Don't forget guns
  by Bob Bertrand
• William Stafford
  by Dick Barnes
• How to treat a captured terrorist: getting to the heart of an important question
  by Lee A. Casey
• Blinding science
  by John Derbyshire
• Of all the changes now taking place in the Middle East, perhaps the most hopeful is the growing political presence of women, long the special victims of dictatorship and extreme Islamic culture
• At a meeting of the G8, the Bush administration agreed to cancel at least $40 billion in debt owed to international lenders by the world's 18 poorest countries, most of them in Africa
• Being and nothingness
  by Francis M. McLaughlin
• Tiny Island, tiny dictator: Elba has something to teach us about tyrants and how they finish
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Foul Felt
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Tenth Congress of the Syrian Baath party met in Damascus, threatened from three directions
• It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by what we've seen since: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Purple Revolution in Iraq, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzst
• China has nuclear weapons and the third-largest military budget on the planet; mounts invasion exercises directed at Taiwan
• Matters of life and death
  by Algis Valiunan
• Actually, they do still have Nixon
• When criticized for suppressing religious freedom, China's Communist rulers sometimes claim that churches in all countries are required to register with their governments
• Time for the sun to rise: how a newly confident and engaged Japan would help the United States, and the world
  by Richard Lowry
• The Court on high
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In these days of frippery and idiocy on our nation's campuses it's nice to know that there remain a few genuine scholars still interested in such quaint notions as the spirit of disinterested, unpoliticized inquiry