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Articles in Sept 26, 2005 issue of National Review

• Overcoming Brezhnev: in Germany, that is
  by David Pryce-Jones
• To have a pen, said Voltaire, is to have war, and Orhan Pamuk is learning this truth
• Raining race
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The veneer of civilization: utterly removed
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Robert Moog's contribution to the music of the spheres was a practical electronic synthesizer, which he developed in the Sixties
• As though we needed another reminder that terrorists are not just overseas, the Justice Department has indicted four men in Los Angeles for conspiring to wage war against the United States
• Bush's strategy, assessed: a symposium on the president's novel approach in the Middle East, and beyond
• Justice Scalia, in a California speech: "Now the Senate is looking for moderate judges, mainstream judges
• Religious rights
  by Christopher Levenick
• The base-closing commission voted 8 to 1 to keep Ellsworth open, thereby avoiding collateral damage to South Dakota senator John Thune
• Jude Wanniski, supply-side guru and occasional NR contributor, died age 69
• The way Jude worked: remembering Wanniski
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Notes & asides
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Disaster area
• 'Racism!' they charged: when don't they?
  by John McWhorter
• Look what's flying!
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Trial lawyers love drug companies: with deep pockets, poor reputations, and a customer base composed largely of people who are already sick and dying, they make the perfect targets for big-money lawsuits
• Where the buck stops
  by Meghan Cox Gurdon
• Tough Love
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Texas police said they stopped Al Sharpton's car as it was going 110 mph, trying to catch a plane after a meeting with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
• Hawaii five-no: the scourge of separatism
  by Alston B. Ramsay
• Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have said that Mohamed Atta was identified as a potential terrorist long before the 9/11 attacks
• Every time China's Communist dictatorship gets a new public face, he is toasted as the great moderate hope
• Robertson's death wishes
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Help!!!!
• The Disappearance
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Rehnquist and his court
• Racism in the Islamic World: how can peace prevail in the Middle East in the face of Islamic bigotry and hate? When will moderate Muslims speak out?
• Reporting while wrong: the New York Times peddles more 'driving while black' malarkey
  by Heather Mac Donald
• Of bureaucrats and bedsores
  by Ken Connor
• Different down there: in America, but not entirely
  by Rob Long
• End of Summer Sanity Quiz™
  by Rob Long
• The draft Iraqi constitution is going to a referendum on October 15
• The city I knew: a small memoir
  by Rod Dreher
• Forceful frauds
  by Richard Nadler
• As one watches armed gangs rape and pillage their way through New Orleans, it is easy to think like Hobbes: Sever the cords of law and order, and man's savagery will be unleashed at its ugliest
• The acid test
  by Michael Potemra
• It would be a drab world of bourgeois conformity if there were not some colorful absolute monarch somewhere flaunting an extravagant lifestyle and exercising droit du seigneur over his female subjects
• The good mission
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• There may be a handful of our readers who are unfamiliar with the name and career of Mr. Kanye West
• All the uglier: what Katrina whipped up
  by Jay Nordlinger
• "Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being," was how Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz began an article celebrating the "activist stance" of emotional reporters covering Katrina's devastation
• For a few days in August, visitors to London Zoo were treated to a new exhibit: Eight human beings, minimally clothed, and caged in a rocky enclosure behind a sign with the legend: "Warning: Humans in Their Natural Environment."
• Wit, humor, weeds
  by Mary Wolan
• The Way I See It
  by Jennifer Reeser
• A particularly heartbreaking photographic sequence shows a huge mound of shoes on a bridge over the Tigris in Baghdad, and people picking over them as they search for missing relatives
• Walk on by
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Peddlers of racial grievance act like hyenas
• Readers of Joe Haldeman's 1975 novel The Forever War, which described military life and manners in an imagined future, will recall that enlisted soldiers were expected to respond to the commands of their drill instructors with a loud and clear "F YOU
• One of the many lessons of Hurricane Katrina is that great leaders aren't always on the scene when they're most needed: nobody is mistaking New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for Rudy Giuliani
• For years, we said they blamed Bush for everything but the weather
• The blame game
• Here is one of our occasional reports from the world of art, which, as regular readers will know, has come a long way from the casting of bronze horses and the painting of still lifes
• Repeal the Bush tax increase
  by Kenneth L. Judd
• In his essay "Decline of the English Murder" George Orwell lamented the eclipse of "the old domestic poisoning dramas, product of a stable society where the all-prevailing hypocrisy did at least ensure that crimes as serious as murder shoul
• The government point: it's not conservatives who need the lesson
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Curbing God's laws
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• With only the flimsiest of conditionals, Pat Robertson called for the murder of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez