Magazine November 17, 2014, Issue

Memorandum

By Rob Long

October 29, 2014 4:00 AM

TO: New-Business Teams, Both Dem and Rep

FROM: Media Team

RE: Signing up new clients for Campaign Cycle 2016

Hi all . . .

As we all digest the midterm results, we’ve got to be thinking ahead. Our competition in the political-consultant market is going to be aggressive in the next few months, signing up new clients for the 2016 cycle, and we need to be ahead of the curve when we approach candidates for any office to provide comprehensive media and consulting services to them.

In the past, we’ve spent a lot of time honing separate messages for clients in each party, but in …

In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

Realism Returns

By Elbridge Colby

The most remarkable aspect of Senator Rand Paul’s “conservative realism” speech on October 23 in New York was that it was seen as remarkable at all. For the fact is ...

Politics & Policy

Irksome Existences

By Ramesh Ponnuru

We live in a country with roughly a million abortions a year. It is credibly estimated that around a third of American women have an abortion by age 45. Two ...

Politics & Policy

Jurassic Cards

By Tim Cavanaugh

The business card seems to be surviving the speedy displacement and long death of print media, but nobody knows exactly why. Already a relic before the 20th century began, an ...

Politics & Policy

The Ike Theme Park

By Catesby Leigh

After a federal planning board rejected his unpopular design last spring, architect Frank Gehry downsized his proposed national memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C. In October, both the ...

Politics & Policy

Architect of Himself

By Anthony Daniels

Arriving recently in one of those hotels whose bedroom windows do not open by more than two inches in case the guests should immediately precipitate themselves out of them and ...

Features

Politics & Policy

Generation Vexed

By Kevin D. Williamson

Blame it on the emojis. In October, the White House announced that it was rolling out an economic-messaging campaign directed at young voters, and the document it produced was laden ...

Politics & Policy

Empty Integrity

By Jonah Goldberg

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “integrity” in part as “soundness of moral principle; the character of uncorrupted virtue, esp. in relation to truth and fair dealing; uprightness, honesty, sincerity.” This ...

Politics & Policy

Undemocratic Freedoms

By Charles C. W. Cooke

From time to time, after I’ve expressed my view on a given topic, a reader will write with a singular denunciation. “Good luck running on that platform,” he will scoff, ...

Politics & Policy

Witness from Hell

By Jay Nordlinger

Oslo — It was not until 2010 that I met a North Korean. I met Kang Chol-hwan at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Kang is the famed defector who wrote a ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

A Vanished Breed

By Vincent J. Cannato

‘Republican in name only,” “country-club Republican,” “establishment Republican”: These are the terms grassroots conservatives use to attack their moderate Republican opponents, whom they consider “squishes” and elitists — people who ...

Politics & Policy

Liberalism’s Christian Roots

By Matthew J. Franck

Whence come the principles of modern liberal societies — “liberal” in the classical sense of devotion to human liberty, with a private sphere protected by natural rights, the equal moral ...

Politics & Policy

The Dangerous Era

By Brian C. Anderson

By the time of his death in July 1997, at the age of 70 and just three months after being elected to the French Academy, François Furet had become one ...

Politics & Policy

Touched by the Divine

By David Mills

Someone who wants to understand why conservative Protestants don’t vacate the public square now that their kind of religion seems to have been so completely routed — can anyone think ...

Politics & Policy

Overruled on Appeal

By Ross Douthat

When skills are neglected, they atrophy. When crafts are abandoned, it’s hard to pick them up again. When forms of art grow rare enough, people can simply forget how to ...

Country Life

In a Dry Season

By Richard Brookhiser

The mountains upstate are the tap, the fire hydrant, the wellhead for the city. Decades ago the thirsty megalopolis bought land to serve as gigantic offsite gutters and rain barrels. ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By Jay Nordlinger

The Inherent Danger of SWAT Teams Regarding Jay Nordlinger’s piece “A Job Like No Other” (September 22): I certainly sympathize with the police in general. It’s a necessary and difficult job. ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By Jay Nordlinger

‐ President Obama’s credit card was refused. From force of habit, he shut down the Washington Monument. ‐ Two in Canada, one in Queens: The end of October was marked by ...

Athwart

It’s Ineffable

By James Lileks

If you wanted to change minds and win hearts about the issues that face women today, of course you’d take cute little girls who embody the sweet joy of innocence ...

The Long View

Memorandum

By Rob Long

TO: New-Business Teams, Both Dem and Rep FROM: Media Team RE: Signing up new clients for Campaign Cycle 2016 Hi all . . . As we all digest the midterm results, we’ve got to ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Lawrence Dugan

MORE SPACE An anthropology of space? A Cape May Scenario: porches, hammocks, flags; lawns Without stone ornaments, small windows That are bow-shaped for the sea wind, Mail boxes with salt-air-withered signs, The pavements narrow enough for ...

Happy Warrior

Return of the Son of the Corporate Villain, Part III

By David Harsanyi

A-listers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon recently announced that they would be pooling their talents to produce a new television drama for the Sci-Fi Network titled “Incorporated.” The series, a ...