Spring is in the air, and with it the Spring 2023 issue of National Affairs. It’s really packed with exceptional essays. They include:

  • Nick Eberstadt and Peter Van Ness on the peculiar geographic distribution of American unemployment
  • Chris Liddell on how presidents should prepare for the job
  • Sally Satel on the pre-history of the opioid crisis in Appalachia
  • Richard Kahlenberg on what should happen after affirmative action
  • Howard Husock on non-citizens and congressional districting
  • Mikael Good and Phil Wallach on the emotive presidency
  • Robert Pondiscio on public-school teachers and the right
  • Ray Domanico on the need for local control of schooling
  • Christopher Barnard and Kai Weiss on the durability of America’s promise
  • Algis Valiunas on how American nature writing devolved into environmentalist activism
  • Michael Zuckert on slavery and the Constitution
  • Allen Guelzo on Lincoln and democracy
  • Harvey Mansfield on conservatism and the common good

Seriously, all that in one issue. Here’s where you can find it.

Happy reading, happy spring.