Summer is upon us, which means the new summer issue of National Affairs is here. And it’s packed with great essays:
- Naomi Schaefer Riley on a crisis in foster care
- Shep Melnick on the bizarre evolution of Title IX
- Arthur Rizer and Lars Trautman with an update on criminal-justice reform in the states
- Peter Schuck and Rogers Smith (incoming president of the American Political Science Association) on why birthright citizenship is a properly political question
- Karlyn Bowman on the problems with political polling
- Scott Yenor on how we think about the family
- Arnold Kling with a new toolkit for economists
- James Poulos on great books in a digital age
- Lee Edwards on the state of the right
- Jay Cost on civic republicanism
- Jason Willick on what we can learn from Peter Viereck
- James Ceaser on how Madison founded the American founding
- Mary Eberstadt on James Q. Wilson and the social crisis of our time
Some are free to all, some open only to subscribers—and here is where you can subscribe.
Happy reading!