In 2013, an obscure Christian school, the Blue Ridge Academy of Greenville, S.C., administered a test to its fourth-grade students titled “Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel.” The test was derived from a creationist curriculum developed by Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis, which operates the Creation Museum, and it was more or less what you would expect: Young Earth horsepucky denying that the world is billions of years old and that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, maintaining that Homo sap. and T. rex walked the Earth contemporaneously, helpfully answering the vexatious question of on which day the Almighty created the …
Nobody @#$%&*! Loves Science
The method, the memes, and the ideological crutch
In This Issue
Articles
Paying Their Way
In the wake of House majority leader Eric Cantor’s political defenestration at the hands of GOP primary voters, we’ve been told comprehensive immigration reform is dead. Before it rises from ...
Living Not By Lies
Washington, D.C. — Every day is an anniversary, and people take advantage of them. This week, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is marking its 20th anniversary. Last week, the ...
Checking Hillary’s Privilege
From the very moment in May when the House voted, along the partisan lines typical of our age, to establish the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist ...
The Hispanic-Evangelical Vote
People who are seriously concerned about the Republican party’s future often think about how to appeal to the nation’s Hispanics. And they properly note that one Latino group stands out ...
Eric Holder’s Justice
With almost a thousand employees and a 2012 appropriation of $145 million, the Civil Rights Division (CRD) is one of the largest divisions within the Department of Justice (DOJ). It ...
Features
Let Your Right Brain Run Free
In 1976, the summer after my freshman year in college, I attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop on the bucolic grounds of Michigan State University. It was a six-week ...
Fight Not the Dragon
Oren cass’s argument for threatening trade sanctions against China (“Fight the Dragon,” June 23) begins to go wrong from its very first words. He allows that the standard economic model ...
Nobody @#$%&*! Loves Science
In 2013, an obscure Christian school, the Blue Ridge Academy of Greenville, S.C., administered a test to its fourth-grade students titled “Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel.” The test was derived ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Roots of the 2008 Crisis
The “Great Recession” of 2007–09 was the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The net worth of households fell $13 trillion, the stock market declined ...
Redemption Road
A Jew may say to you, “Why can’t you leave me alone? Why can’t you just go and do your thing and let me do mine? What does it bother ...
Into the Past
Ida, a small black-and-white masterpiece currently getting its American release, is set in Poland in the 1960s, and it feels as if it could have been filmed in the ’60s ...
Protecting The Republic
This is a serious book about a serious subject: the abuse of constitutional authority by President Obama and whether he merits impeachment for it. Some, undoubtedly, will try to dismiss ...
Return of the Bear
If location is everything in real estate, then timing is everything in book publishing. Even a few months ago, Serhii Plokhy’s revisionist history of the end of the Cold War ...
Murphy’s Law
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong: So goes Murphy’s Law. And so demonstrates another Murphy, Lafayette College professor Bruce Allen Murphy, in his new biography of Supreme Court ...
Sections
Letters
Pollard’s Punishment
I have been reading National Review since I was a teenager and mostly respect and admire your writers and appreciate your professionalism. However, the short paragraph about Jonathan Pollard ...
The Week
‐ Funny, the IRS never seems to lose track of us.
‐ Almost as stunning as the defeat of House majority leader Eric Cantor are the lengths some people have gone ...
A Low Point for High Culture
Anyone who wanted to feel old, fusty, cranky, and despairing of the end of High Culture could scan recent cultural news and feel as if he had clambered into a ...
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Poetry
MY WRECK
Somewhere Hopkins refers to his great long
Ode as my wreck, as possessive as a salvager
Tossing sand dunes for rubble the day after.
And somewhere a critic says Hopkins thought
Volpone a ...
The Always-Already Progressive
Last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton — who, readers may not recall, is a former secretary of state and United States senator from New York, and is coincidentally the wife of ...