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IN THE July 15, 2013, ISSUE

Remington, U.S.A.

Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...

Articles

Politics & Policy

A Subnation of Immigrants

By Ramesh Ponnuru

For some people, the debate over the immigration bill before the Senate ended on June 18. That day, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports, one suggesting that the bill ...

Politics & Policy

‘The FISA court is a rubber stamp.” The ongoing NSA controversy has revived that shopworn talking point, relentlessly repeated by progressive and libertarian opponents of national-security surveillance. The notion is ...

Politics & Policy

The Inappropriate ‘Inappropriate’

By Kevin D. Williamson

Some conservatives believe that it was reverence for the Constitution that constrained the growth of government in the early days of the republic, while the economist Arnold Kling has argued ...

Politics & Policy

The Education of Justin Amash

By John J. Miller

As Justin Amash zips along a parade route in Cutlerville, Mich., on June 8, there’s a method to his movement. Rather than marching down the middle of 68th Street behind ...

Politics & Policy

Twilight of the Confederacy

By Allen C. Guelzo

Looking back 20 years after it was fought, Alexander Stewart Webb declared that the Battle of Gettysburg “was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the Waterloo of ...

Politics & Policy

Blowing Up Barbie

By Jay Nordlinger

Rolla, Mo. — There are many summer camps, something for everyone. But there’s no other camp quite like this: an explosives camp. A hands-on explosives camp. Such a thing would ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Remington, U.S.A.

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...

Politics & Policy

Open Skies and Open Spectrum

By Christopher DeMuth Sr.

Politics is the competition of interests and the competition of ideas. The advantage lies with interests that are organized and entrenched (teachers, farmers) and with ideas that mobilize effective interest ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

A New Birth

By Mackubin Thomas Owens

Gettysburg remains the greatest clash of arms ever to occur in North America. It is also the most studied battle in American history. In 1900, a historian remarked that “another ...

Politics & Policy

Let Burke Be Burke

By Yuval Levin

General readers in search of a reliable and readable single-volume biography of Edmund Burke have had few options in recent decades. Although some significant new material (including especially Burke’s complete ...

Politics & Policy

Hinges of History

By Arthur Herman

Heraclitus called war “the father of all things”; James Lacey and Williamson Murray see war as the father of civilization and, more specifically, of major global shifts of power. That’s a ...

Politics & Policy

No Honey, No Baby, No Church

By W. Bradford Wilcox

For decades, the United States has largely dodged the secular tide that has engulfed Europe. Indeed, for much of the last half-century, religion has continued to play a notable role ...

Politics & Policy

The Siege of Men

By Carrie Lukas

Something fundamental has changed about American society, and it’s weakening our nation, both economically and culturally. Analysts have worked to identify potential causes, and have come up with many suspects: the ...

City Desk

Thrill of the New

By Richard Brookhiser

Life is change. What could be more obvious? I grew up with a phone number that had letters in it: FIllmore 2-3769 (the number finally died when my father moved ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Bad Artists Steal, Too In mentioning the works George Lucas “borrowed and repurposed” in the making of Star Wars, Ross Douthat omits the films of Japan’s Akira Kurosawa — but I ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ Harry Reid, looking up to the sky from the Senate floor, said that Ted Kennedy would “smile at all of us” when the immigration bill passed. Smile, sure, Mr. ...

Athwart

Borderline Crazy

By James Lileks

From an early draft of the immigration bill: 1.223 (b) The government shall construct a fence across the entirety of the border. Upon completion of the fence the government may, at ...

The Long View

Passed But Not Read

By Rob Long

PASSED BUT NOT READ: Senate Bill 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. With Amendments and Revisions FULL TEXT EXCERPTS: From Title I: 9 SEC. 4. SOUTHERN BORDER SECURITY COMMISSION. 10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT. ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Annabelle Moseley

THE TEDDY BEAR That is a human curiosity – endear what might destroy you in the wild. Give children emblems of ferocity to cuddle when they’re frightened, sad, or riled. Take what is fierce and ...

Happy Warrior

The Graffiti on the Wall

By Mark Steyn

Timing is everything, even in apocalyptic doom-mongering. When my book America Alone came out in 2006, the conventional wisdom was that its argument about Europe’s demographic death spiral was “alarmist” ...

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