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Daily Must-Reads

By Joseph Lawler on 9.29.08 @ 10:10AM

Get ready for likable George W. to make a reappearance (NYT)

Leverage needed in talking with Tehran (WSJ)

Even the Globe thinks Barney Frank is guilty (Boston.com)

Get rid of mark-to-market, just do it (Bloomberg)

A historical perspective on bailouts: they're not worth it (Reason Hit & Run)

P.J. O'Rourke comes to grips with cancer (LA Times)

Michael Arrington notes Peter Wallison's 1999 mortgage prophecy and one damning graph (TechCrunch)

Godspeed you, FIRE, otherwise all students will be assigned to trashing Sarah Palin (Pajamas Media)

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Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. Our symposium on choice from the May, 2012 issue:

The Fairness Delusion

By Charles Murray

The speech our President should make.
Media Smears: One Man’s Experiences

By Thomas Sowell

A noted economist fires back.
Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists

By Malcolm Gladwell

How political can you get?
The Reagan Doctrine

By Gregory A. Fossedal

You might have missed it, but it was boomed in January.
The Woman Problem

By George Will

Farcical feminism is a decades-old phenomenon, as George Will's essay from 1970 reminds us.