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IN THE February 10, 2014, ISSUE

Bateman’s Losers

Vegas, Baby — ‘Eggs are expensive, sperm are cheap.” That’s the plain-English approximation of Bateman’s principle, which holds that in a species with two sexes, the members of the sex ...

Articles

Politics & Policy

Meet the Beatles

By Charles C. W. Cooke

The runaway success that the Beatles enjoyed in the United States seems all but inevitable in hindsight. By February 1964, when they finally “turned left at Greenland” and embarked nervously ...

Politics & Policy

The Secret People

By John O'Sullivan

‘What about the workers?” That was the traditional cry of Labour hecklers in Britain to disrupt a Tory orator and to imply that his policies ignored the interests of the ...

Politics & Policy

Poor Like Whom?

By Theodore Dalrymple

When I was a student I lived in poverty, though I didn’t know it. The conditions in which I lived would now be regarded as abject and intolerable, good enough ...

Politics & Policy

For nearly three decades, Iran’s ayatollahs have outfoxed and outmaneuvered Western counter-proliferation efforts. Tehran has repeatedly bested our diplomats, our spies, and, most especially, our gullible political leaders. In the ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Bateman’s Losers

By Kevin D. Williamson

Vegas, Baby — ‘Eggs are expensive, sperm are cheap.” That’s the plain-English approximation of Bateman’s principle, which holds that in a species with two sexes, the members of the sex ...

Politics & Policy

Unequal to the Challenge

By Ramesh Ponnuru & Yuval Levin

America these days faces a daunting array of economic challenges. Still in the midst of a weak recovery from a recession that technically ended more than four years ago, the ...

Politics & Policy

Enforcement, then Amnesty

By Mark Krikorian

The House Republican leadership’s principles for “immigration reform” have been revealed in general form. The substance, as reported in Politico, is what anyone might have guessed: enhanced border security and ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

The Road to Monetary Stability

By David Beckworth

In 2013, the Federal Reserve celebrated its 100th anniversary. During that century, the U.S. economy was subjected to numerous boom-and-bust cycles, the sharpest economic contractions in its history, and one ...

Politics & Policy

The Twain, Meeting

By Jay Nordlinger

About ten, fifteen years ago, a phrase occurred to me: “the Sinification of music.” This refers to the ever-growing influence of Chinese musicians on Western classical music. Has this influence ...

Politics & Policy

A Different Kind of War

By Ross Douthat

The cliché is that American war films fall into two categories: movies about World War II, which are patriotic, heroic, celebratory, and confident in both the mission and the men, ...

Politics & Policy

Anglosphere Attitudes

By Charles C. W. Cooke

George Orwell, who spent his short career fighting the coupled perils of censorship and propaganda, famously accorded to the fictional ruling party of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s England the aphorism “He who ...

Politics & Policy

Moby-Dick, Again

By Rich Lowry

I’m an aspirational reader — meaning that my shelves are full of books I intend to read . . . some day. It is only with great reluctance that I ...

Politics & Policy

The Dean’s Delight

By John J. Miller

When Peter O’Toole died in December, the obituaries dutifully mentioned his starring role in Lawrence of Arabia as well as his other achievements on screen and stage. Most overlooked one ...

Sections

The Long View

Document Extracts

By Rob Long

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL WIRETAP TRANSCRIPT NEW JERSEY STATE GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION [PLEASE NOTE, AS PER DIRECTOR, THIS INFORMATION IS CLOSE-HOLD.] Begin Extract #1 10:23:02 [static] Unidentified Male Voice: “. . . and we make them hurt, ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

WORLD An edgeless bird Made of words Passes above the yard. Dense as a hoof, Skids from the roof A block of numbers, falling, striking hard. In the water tank Stirs, with a clank, A serpent, gorged on images, ...

Happy Warrior

Yes, We Can (Say That)

By Mark Steyn

I’ve always been in favor of freedom of expression, but lately I’ve become a free-speech absolutist. It takes all sorts to make a world and I’ve met a lot of ...

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Racist Roll Call Reading Kevin D. Williamson’s article “Racism! Squirrel!” (December 31 issue) brought back fond memories of roll call when we had a substitute teacher. As the teacher got to ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

&dash; Little-known fact: François Hollande’s security is provided by Arkansas state troopers. &dash; “What difference, at this point, does it make?” asked the presumed front-runner in the 2016 presidential race when ...

Athwart

Arise Ye Media

By James Lileks

Over at Salon there’s an excerpt from the book Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. The title, you suspect, comes from John Lennon’s limp hymn to a happy hippie hand-holding ...

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