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November 14, 2002 THE RETURN OF OSAMA BIN LADEN by Thomas Fleming Americans, since September 11, 2001, have been lying in their beds with the covers pulled up over their heads. They have allowed themselves to be persuaded that peace and order have been restored to Afghanistan; they have accepted the Bush administration's argument that we can attack Iraq without provoking more acts of terrorism against the United States; they have tried their hardest to believe the President's characterization of Islam as a "religion of peace" and stolidly sat through news reports without ever suspecting that there was some connection...

November 7, 2002 ONE CHEER FOR THE REPUBLICANS by Thomas Fleming The Emerging Democratic Majority has to be the most hapless title of the decade. The New Republic's John Judis (or his publisher) had obviously timed the book to coincide with the Democratic Party's stunning congressional gains in the mid-term elections. If Scribners hasn't remaindered the book by now, they had better move quickly. As a leftist, Judis used to be a perceptive social critic, but as a left-liberal, he cannot see beyond the end of the New Republic's masthead. The old Judis knew that liberalism was a bankrupt ideology...