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IN THE February 24, 2014, ISSUE

The Age of the Ugly

C. S. Lewis used to distinguish sharply between what he called “Old Western” civilization and the civilization of the modern West that succeeded it. He attributed the division to the ...

Articles

Politics & Policy

Reform Conservatism

By Ramesh Ponnuru

All of a sudden, Republicans are beginning to construct a new national agenda. Every week, it seems, some Republican is announcing a new policy initiative — on health care, on taxes, ...

Politics & Policy

Remember when the spin from environmentalists and the Obama administration was that renewable “green”-energy mandates and subsidies would help the economy create millions of “green jobs”? President Obama still trumpets, ...

Politics & Policy

Pre-K Decay

By Jason Richwine

The evidence seemed overwhelming. When Rutgers professor Steven Barnett gave a congressional briefing on preschool last spring, he touted higher test scores, improved graduation rates, reduced crime, less welfare use, ...

Politics & Policy

Volcker Vagaries

By Jeremy Senderowicz

It was December 10, 2013, and Washington, D.C., was paralyzed by a cataclysmic dusting of snow. While most Washington residents spent the day figuring out how to shovel the overwhelming ...

Politics & Policy

Yearning to Drive

By Charles C. W. Cooke

For all the rightful talk of shining cities on hills, sea-washed sunset gates, and well-worn melting pots, the one thing they don’t tell you about moving to America is how ...

Features

Politics & Policy

The Age of the Ugly

By Michael Knox Beran

C. S. Lewis used to distinguish sharply between what he called “Old Western” civilization and the civilization of the modern West that succeeded it. He attributed the division to the ...

Politics & Policy

Vandals and Scandals

By Kevin D. Williamson

In 2011, a statue was vandalized in Chicago, an event that is less common than you might think. A few Banksy-level graffiti impresarios aside, vandals are the lowest form of ...

Politics & Policy

De Soto’s Excellent Path

By Jay Nordlinger

Lima, Peru — Sitting here listening to Hernando de Soto, I think, “How am I going to avoid describing him as a ‘force of nature’?” That is one of the ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

By Lee Edwards

‘Unforgettable” — that’s probably the best word for L. Brent Bozell Jr. I knew him as a brilliant editorialist, a deeply committed Catholic, a devoted father of ten, and a ...

Politics & Policy

At the Summit

By Bing West

Robert Gates served as secretary of defense during the pivotal war years of 2006 through mid 2011. His powerful memoir is insightful, tendentious, angry, elucidating, contradictory, and honest. Gates saw ...

Politics & Policy

Failing Upward

By Robert VerBruggen

This may not have been the best time for Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle to write a book squarely in the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell. For whatever reason, Gladwell’s mesmerizing essays, ...

Politics & Policy

Loss Leaders

By Ross Douthat

To movie obsessives, the Oscars are fascinating, frustrating, riveting, infuriating — a spectacle we love to hate and love to love. To normal people, though, they’re something much more basic: ...

Country Life

A Noble Animal

By Richard Brookhiser

I have ridden a horse once in my life, in a party of beginners at a resort. It was not a success. The horses were fitted with English, not Western ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Peace and Prosperity The last time I wrote a letter to an editor was in 1969. Two items in the January 27 issue have now moved me to write again. While fulfilling ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ We feared the ACA would make companies not want to hire. Good news! It just makes employees not want to work. ‐ The latest from the Chris Christie Super Bowl: ...

Athwart

I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing

By James Lileks

Coke ran a Super Bowl ad in which “America the Beautiful” was sung in different languages. To judge from a few headlines in my news feeds, the entire right side ...

The Long View

The 2014 Russian-Language Coverage of the All-Heterosexual Sochi Olympics!

By Rob Long

(Transcript from Russia Sports Now! Live Coverage of Olympic Male Figure-Skating Competition) Commentator Ivanov: “Is now time for the men’s figure-skating competition, when the totally heterosexual mens from the many other ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By William Craig Rice

GREEN Time was there was no smog in city parks. The poisons started only at the sidewalks, A sick fog heading to its source: high tiers, The lofty realm of chiefs and financiers. The public ...

Happy Warrior

Deny This

By Mark Steyn

Handing out his awards for “sustainability” at Buckingham Palace the other day, the Prince of Wales made a few remarks about “climate change” and attacked “powerful groups of deniers” as ...

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