The Romance of Communism
Vivian Gornick’s 1977 The Romance of American Communism is experiencing a second life, much to the author’s puzzlement.
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When Complexity Isn’t a Subsidy
Using bureaucratic complexity to keep the welfare rolls down is underhanded.
À chacun son goût
I am grateful that Bill Buckley’s magazine exists and still publishes the kind of writing that might include an occasional French phrase.
A Nation of Barbers
A public-school system beset by conformism, in Texas and across the country.
‘The Mob Has the Final Edit’
George Packer of The Atlantic has been awarded the Hitchens prize, which is given to reward “willingness to pursue the truth without regard to personal or professional consequence.” This essay ...
California’s Crusade against CEOs
Trends in household income are little correlated with those in executive compensation.
The Denver Post Has a Personnel Problem
If the opinion pages of the Denver Post cannot be used to present and discuss the views of people in Denver, then what, exactly, is the point of those pages?
Virginians Have Been Wrong Before
I can think of one or two occasions upon which the wishes of the great majority of Virginia voters were set aside with the nation being better off for it.
Bolsonaro vs. Greenwald
The trend in the United States points in a distinctly Brazilian direction.
On the Dangers of Democracy
The rising authoritarianism of our time is not an aberration.