Magazine

IN THE August 19, 2013, ISSUE

Life and Death on Basic Cable

By Jonah Goldberg

Nostalgia plagues us all, but conservatives are particularly susceptible to it, for obvious reasons. When it comes to popular culture in particular, we tend to romanticize the past. The clichés ...

Making a Federal Case Out of It

By Stephanos Bibas

Articles

Politics & Policy

Carolina Comeback

By John Hood

Ever since Pat McCrory became North Carolina’s first Republican governor in 20 years, a stream of media coverage has portrayed the Tar Heel State as “the Wisconsin of 2013,” to ...

Politics & Policy

San Antonio–Houston – Greg Abbott is the man who comes from everywhere — in Texas. Announcing his gubernatorial candidacy under the scorching-hot San Antonio sun, Abbott declares that for him and his ...

Politics & Policy

Making a Federal Case Out of It

By Stephanos Bibas

In 1999, federal fisheries agents received an anonymous tip by fax. The fax claimed that David McNab was importing lobsters from Honduras that were packed in clear plastic bags, not ...

Politics & Policy

Laboratory of Islamism

By David Pryce-Jones

Egypt is the stage for a confrontation that is going to affect the relations between Muslims everywhere, and beyond that, between Muslims and everyone else. The issue is Islamism, the ...

Politics & Policy

Meet the Cracker

By Florence King

As the Zimmerman case proved, a defining characteristic of the American mind is the care we take with our racial vocabularies to make sure they specify where we land in ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Types of Stereotypes

By Theodore Dalrymple

The man who walks out of his house with a mind devoid of stereotypes is like the man who goes to the Antarctic without having inquired about the weather. But ...

Politics & Policy

Justice for the System

By Ian Tuttle

‘In our criminal justice system, African Americans and whites, for the same crime . . . are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, receive very ...

Politics & Policy

Cause for Depression

By Ramesh Ponnuru

More than five years into the depression that is the dominating fact of our economy, we still have no clear picture of its causes. The consensus is that the bursting of ...

Politics & Policy

Et in Arcadia Ego

By Kevin D. Williamson

On July 24, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had reached an agreement with the public-school district of Arcadia, Calif., for the resolution of certain “sex discrimination” ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Life and Death on Basic Cable

By Jonah Goldberg

Nostalgia plagues us all, but conservatives are particularly susceptible to it, for obvious reasons. When it comes to popular culture in particular, we tend to romanticize the past. The clichés ...

Politics & Policy

Signal over Noise

By James V. DeLong

Don’t sit down with George Gilder’s Knowledge and Power with the idea that you are about to read a book. You are entering into an evening of rambling discussion with ...

Politics & Policy

Watching the Watchmen

By Jack Dunphy

One day, early in my career with the Los Angeles Police Department, I needed to look up the telephone number for some departmental entity or another. Scanning the desk blotter ...

Politics & Policy

A Death in Oakland

By Ross Douthat

Early on New Year’s Day, 2009, a fight broke out on the BART train running from San Francisco to Oakland. The transit cops arrived, pulled a group of men — ...

Country Life

Keeper of the Flame

By Richard Brookhiser

Starting a fire is a three-step dance. Step one: As you strike a match, there is a hiss and a flash on the head as the phosphorus combusts. Call it ...

Sections

Happy Warrior

The Perennial Revolution

By Mark Steyn

Monarchy is the natural order of things, which is why, as Ben Franklin grasped, the tricky bit about a republic is keeping it. Franklin didn’t live to see how that ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Sins and Commandments in Language I was thinking that I was the only one bothered by the all-encompassing use of “inappropriate” to avoid an honest confession of sin. Even my pastor, ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ We’re traditionalists on sex scandals: They ought to include sex. ‐ In July, President Obama gave another in his long series of speeches that constitute “a pivot” to the economy. ...

Athwart

Rahs and Rah-Nots

By James Lileks

Michael Shulan, creative director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, said he almost didn’t include the famous photo of firefighters raising the flag because it was too “rah-rah.” One “rah” is ...

The Long View

The Al-Irshad Group

By Rob Long

Transcript from the Al Jazeera Political Talk Show The Al-Irshad Group: Sunday, August 4, 2013 Host Al-Irshad: “Issue One! Weiner-riffic! In the aftermath of a series of degrading and degenerate scandals ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Jennifer Reeser

NO VOODOO No mystical sixth sense do I possess. I hardly handle normal senses well. No vision have I ever had of Hell. Jesus does not drop in at my address. My life has been ...

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