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IN THE April 22, 2013, ISSUE

The Quiet Gold Rush

Alberta, Canada – While we are sitting on the tarmac waiting interminably for Newark’s permission to take off, the man in the seat to my right turns and asks me ...

Articles

Politics & Policy

Higher Education Revalued

By Thomas K. Lindsay

Grade inflation is real, rampant, and ravaging a university near you. It would be a scandal if more people knew about it. A bill filed in March in the Texas legislature ...

Politics & Policy

What are these Republicans drinking? In 2011, Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia tried to privatize his state’s Soviet-style liquor stores and was handed a stinging legislative defeat. In 2013, another ...

Politics & Policy

A Court in Cambodia

By Jay Nordlinger

The court in Cambodia announced the death of Ieng Sary “with regret.” Those words were puzzling: Did the court regret the passing of a human being, who may have meant ...

Politics & Policy

Passion’s Fetters

By Theodore Dalrymple

Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! — Sir Walter Scott, Marmion If proof were needed that high intelligence is no certain protection against self-destructive foolishness, ...

Politics & Policy

The Portman Position

By Ramesh Ponnuru

When Senator Rob Portman of Ohio endorsed same-sex marriage, he joined a very small club — or, actually, two of them. He is the first Republican senator to have taken ...

Politics & Policy

Modern Family

By Reihan Salam

Over the coming decade, the debate over the size and shape of government is likely to grow more intense. In the wake of the Affordable Care Act, the project of ...

Features

Politics & Policy

The Quiet Gold Rush

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Alberta, Canada – While we are sitting on the tarmac waiting interminably for Newark’s permission to take off, the man in the seat to my right turns and asks me ...

Politics & Policy

Cyprus Sinking

By Andrew Stuttaford

It says something about the lunatic calculus of Europe’s monetary union that the Republic of Cyprus, a slice of a Mediterranean rock known mainly, if not always fairly, for sunshine, ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Landscape After

By Andrew Stuttaford

The new dawn that broke over Eastern Europe in 1989 was bright, but the landscape it illuminated was exhausted, a territory of shadows and regret, where hope was jostled by ...

Politics & Policy

Evelyn Waugh, Catholic Optimist

By Micah Mattix

Evelyn Waugh defies easy categorization. He was simultaneously a defender of social hierarchy and an anarchist (“He liked life,” his longtime friend Christopher Hollis once remarked, “to be full of ...

Politics & Policy

On the Brink

By Ross Douthat

Ginger and Rosa, an intense little coming-of-age drama from the British director Sally Potter, begins with three births: The mushroom cloud goes up over Hiroshima, ushering in the nuclear age, ...

Country Life

Roots Quest

By Richard Brookhiser

It was not a tough winter in the country, but it was a lingering one, throwing frosts and squalls right through the equinox and beyond. Snow would fall, thin to ...

Politics & Policy

The Great Abyss

By Michael F. Bishop

It was the most momentous act of terrorism in history. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, his morganatic wife at his side, ...

Politics & Policy

Where She’s Coming From

By Florence King

Many young girls devour Nancy Drew mysteries, but those books fed a special hunger in our newly minted U.S. Supreme Court justice when she was growing up in the Puerto ...

Sections

Athwart

A Portrait of the Columnist as a Young Nerd

By James Lileks

A School Board has decided that children should not experience one of the most important and instructive moments of youth: getting hit in the head — hard — by a ...

The Long View

From the Twitter stream of Kim Jong Un — @youthcaptain

By Rob Long

Spent an hour today studying missile-launch and -guidance technology. Or thought that’s what I was doing. Turned out it was only @angrybirds! Hilarious! #gottalaugh #humorheals Do not really understand this whole ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sally Cook

A BAD FIT The grapeshot of his words makes ribbons of Her vitals. When one hits a major vein, Her heart will burst, and finally her love Will recognize its efforts were in vain. He ...

Happy Warrior

Undead Reckoning

By Mark Steyn

I try to resist the siren song of metaphor, luring the polemicist onto the gaudy rocks of glibness and meretriciousness only for his sturdy column to crack and sink 400 ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Have Some Compassion I write to express my disappointment at yet another paragraph in The Week devoted to transsexuals (March 25). If I recall correctly, this is the third such news ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ On the basketball court over Easter, Obama shot 2 for 22. Must be the sequester. ‐ While a few state governments enacted new gun-control measures in the wake of the ...

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