NR PLUS

Magazine November 14, 2011, Issue

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

About Sarah Ruden

October 27, 2011 4:00 AM

KING DAVID LEAVES OFF MOURNING FOR HIS SON

I’m dressed. The sky is stone, my path a sea.

I’m going to him, he won’t return to me.

I eat. The shattered waves have calmed the sea.

I’m going to him, he won’t return to me.

I worship, sowing grain across the sea.

I’m going to him, he won’t return to me.

In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

The Billionaire’s Passport

By Rob Long

I have a friend who is a billionaire, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write. But these days there seem to be a lot more billionaires around. My ...

Politics & Policy

Romneynomics by the Numbers

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Mitt Romney released a 59-point economic plan in September. Very little attention has been paid to its details, which is perhaps surprising given that he is widely considered to be ...

Politics & Policy

Perry’s Program

By Kevin D. Williamson

Gov. Rick Perry has never been a split-the-difference kind of guy, and being a conservative in Texas means that he’s never much had to. But with his presidential campaign foundering, ...

Politics & Policy

The Coptic Winter

By Samuel Tadros

One of the powerful images that came to define the Arab Spring was that of Christians and Muslims praying together in Tahrir Square in Cairo. That image helped shape the ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Up from Leftism

By Jay Nordlinger

Atlanta, Ga. — ‘The first time my name appeared in the New York Times, I was described as ‘an obscure associate professor,’” says Eugene D. Genovese. “I’ve always thought of ...

Politics & Policy

Mobility Impaired

By Scott Winship

What’s the most important issue in American politics? In a narrow sense, the sputtering economy and ballooning deficits are likely to dominate the 2012 election season. But while every election ...

Politics & Policy

During the recent struggle over collective-bargaining rights in Wisconsin, a number of left-of-center observers, including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, pointed out that students in unionized Wisconsin do better ...

Politics & Policy

Progressivism, Race, and the Training Wheels of Freedom

By Tiffany Jones Miller

In 1865, amid the final throes of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass worried that the prospect of fulfilling the promise of the Declaration of Independence, by finally securing to blacks ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Wrong Track

By Stephen Smith

For all the glory of the transcontinental railroads, it’s not hard to find bad things to say about them. As the first truly national American big businesses, they made quite ...

Politics & Policy

A Real Camino

By Ross Douthat

This has been an unusually good run for religion at the movies. Dramatizing spiritual experience is notoriously difficult, and filmmakers tend to look for easier paths — the anthropologist’s condescension, ...

City Desk

Volume Discount

By Richard Brookhiser

Books were like print-outs, with text on both sides of the paper, fastened together along one side with stitching (in older books) or glue. The pages, or papers, were numbered ...

Politics & Policy

Bad News

By Anthony Daniels

Until I read this book, I fondly thought that I was a pessimist; but now, having read it, I realize that on the Cassandra scale of one to ten I ...

Politics & Policy

Unfriendly Skies

By Steven F. Hayward

There were two events in the first year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that justify the use of the overworked phrase “defining moment”: the assassination attempt after only the tenth week ...

Politics & Policy

Ancient and Modern

By David Pryce-Jones

Three thousand years ago, King David captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites. Archaeologists are currently excavating what is thought to have been his palace. The scale is rather small, though some ...

Sections

Athwart

Frigid Pink

By James Lileks

Occupy Wall Street gets all the press, but the world-changing assemblies are happening all over, you know. Here in Minnesota the locals formed OccupyMN and took over Government Plaza. It’s ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

KING DAVID LEAVES OFF MOURNING FOR HIS SON I’m dressed. The sky is stone, my path a sea. I’m going to him, he won’t return to me. I eat. The shattered waves have ...

Happy Warrior

Saint Who?

By Mark Steyn

When it’s not explicitly hostile, Western liberals’ attitude to Ayaan Hirsi Ali is deeply condescending. One thinks of Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, pondering the author’s estrangement from ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

The Brush-off Kevin D. Williamson’s piece on presidential aspirant Ron Paul (“Ron Paul’s Last Crusade,” September 19), coupled with Jack Hunter’s subsequent retort (October 3), brought to mind my own encounter ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ Invading Congo? He really is turning us into Belgium after all. ‐ The Cain mutiny against establishment politics rolls on. Cain is a charmer, and he is right to buck ...

The Long View

C O N F I D E N T I A L

By Rob Long

CLIENT: Senior Romney Campaign TEAM: Bain & Company Campaign Consulting Practice IN RE: Report from our initial consulting efforts EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many thanks for allowing BAIN CONSULTING to serve your campaign, and for giving ...