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Articles in March 10, 2008 issue of National Review

• Robert Jastrow, R.I.P
• Fidel Castro has been one of the cruelest dictators in living memory
• A most dangerous game: house democrats continue to hobble our intelligence services
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• The New York Philharmonic decided to accept an invitation from the regime of Kim Jong Il to play a concert in Pyongyang
• City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's fine publication, kicked off a useful debate by running Sol Stern's essay "School Choice Isn't Enough."
• King Fischer
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Mr. Sinister?
  by Mark T. Risner
• Kosovo is the seventh and last fragment of the old Communist Yugoslavia to become a sovereign state
• 'Re-Liberators': a progress report from Iraq
  by Richard Lowry
• To make her really proud
• New Republic contributor Debbie Nathan offers the following career update on her blog: "I'm presenting my new book Pornography
• As every high-school student who has read The Crucible knows, witches were executed in Massachusetts as late as 1692
• Shock seekers
  by Roger Kimball
• To the nines
  by Mary O'Connell
• Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has confounded his enemies foreign and domestic by neither rigging nor canceling the general election
• Dead to rights: the world is better off without Imad Mughniyah
  by David Pryce-Jones
• John L. Esposito, professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown, typifies his discipline
• The list of professions in which steroid use is common has expanded way beyond athletes to include rappers, models, and even ballerinas
• Race games, old and new
  by Robert VerBruggen
• Dreams from his eugenicists
  by Jonah Goldberg
• One for freedom: meet a popular musician who says he supports the troops—and means it
  by John J. Miller
• The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism is given once a year, to a journalist who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
• Mitt's closing act: will there be a curtain call?
  by Byron York
• You Are Not Other Men
  by Robert Mezey
• The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is running an exhibition titled "Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture."
• The delegate's mailbag
  by Rob Long
• Sharia, Anglican—style: the archbishop of Canterbury is a special kind of fool
  by Anthony Daniels
• Rep. Tom Lantos belonged to the greatest generation—with a twist
• Thank the Academy?
  by Ross Douthat
• Troubled in spirit: the surprising direction of African Christianity
  by Travis Kavulla
• Face the music
  by George Jochnowitz
• The Lord told Moses that, after he died, the people would "go a whoring after the gods of the strangers."
• Brushes through India
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Help!!!!
• American intelligence operations are being held hostage by House Democrats and a secret ruling issued by an unknown federal judge
• Ruth Stafford Peale survived her husband, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, by 14 years
• White lightning
  by John Derbyshire
• The Vancouver Public Library has scheduled a talk by Greg Felton, author of The Host and the Parasite: How Israel's Fifth Column Consumed America
• Mike Huckabee joked that he would continue his presidential campaign since it is not distracting him from anything more pressing, such as a day job
• Flight to the feckless
• The Clintons worked up a tsunami of outrage over MSNBC correspondent David Shuster's use of the term "pimped out" in a question about Chelsea's role in her mother's campaign
• Peace on the right
• Kids' TV characters have a rough go of it in the Gaza Strip
• President Bush has asked Congress to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , and to double its budget, from $15 billion to $30 billion spread across a five-year period
• E. Victor Milione, R.I.P
• The Bush administration's decision to try to shoot down a hobbled spy satellite has drawn plenty of complaints from the disarmament lobby
• The warrior and the priest: how Clinton and Obama divide their party
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Cindy Sheehan emerged from obscurity, but not from obloquy, when she took her one-woman show all the way to the streets of Cairo
• Barack Obama is famously light on legislative achievements, and the one big bill with his name on it is bad news