IN THE December 8, 2014, ISSUE
A Victory to Last
The 2014 GOP tsunami is the fourth time since World War II that Republicans have picked up control of at least one house of Congress in what can be called ...
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Articles
A Victory to Last
The 2014 GOP tsunami is the fourth time since World War II that Republicans have picked up control of at least one house of Congress in what can be called ...
Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer
In the 1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower dismayed conservatives by announcing his intention to accept, more or less whole hog, the New Deal. The Right, led by this magazine, lined ...
‘Todos los Votantes’
On July 17, 2013, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, having recently declared his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, hosted a town hall on Twitter. The exercise was, perhaps, poorly ...
Message and Medium
In 2012, Republicans were dealt a drubbing at the polls. As disconcerting as the result itself was how it caught the party apparatus unawares. Despite the opinion polls and analyses ...
Cannabis, Conservatively
The election results suggest that the country is well on the way to fully legalizing not only the possession of cannabis for personal use but also its commercial production and ...
The IQ Cult
Running for president in 1952, Democrat Adlai Stevenson had, so goes the lore, one of the wittier ripostes in modern American political history: “You will have the vote of every ...
Branded by Google
In September, the Washington Post received an unusual request: Would it remove a music review from the Internet? The request came from Dejan Lazić, a Croatian-born pianist. Not hearing from ...
Features
Getting beyond Obamacare
Obamacare took a beating in the elections, but it is pretty safe from legislative attack over the next two years. Republicans should spend those years making it less safe during ...
Crony Consumerism
Everyone loves to hate crony capitalism. But crony consumerism, its evil twin, is just as dangerous, yet is barely known.
In the wake of the Great Society’s efforts to mandate ...
Books, Arts & Manners
A Vacuum of Leadership
When Bret Stephens, foreign-policy columnist for the Wall Street Journal, penned the final words of America in Retreat in the spring of 2014, America’s world role seemed a low priority ...
The Higher Narcissism
Some years ago Mark Steyn deplored the fate of Britain’s Susan Moore, who obtained notoriety for having vegetated on the dole ever since dropping out of college in the late ...
Aftermath of a Perfect Storm
In this new book, Mike Gonzalez tackles the debate among conservatives on Latino political assimilation. Gonzalez, who was born in Cuba, is a former deputy editorial-page editor of the Asian ...
Post-war Dreaming
Jed Perl is one of the most ferociously intelligent art critics writing today. From his perch at The New Republic, he issues not only taut reviews of current exhibitions but ...
Silent, upon A Peak
Lately the idea of technological stagnation has begun to brood over the Western world. The dominant spirit of our times is still gaga for gadgets, still over the moon for ...
Sections
Letters
Remember the Alamo
In his piece “Forget the Alamo” (October 20), Henry Olsen discredits the fierce battle of 1836, contending that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is overly enamored of a ...
From: jgruber@mit.edu
TO: verygiftedpotus@hotmail.com
FROM: jgruber@mit.edu
SUBJ: Mega apologies
Dear Sir:
I’m taking the liberty of writing to you at your private e-mail address, the one you give out to close and dear friends. I just ...
One Small Outrage
If you haven’t heard the news by now, the European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet, and that was cause for hoorahs for about three minutes. Unfortunately one ...
Poetry
ANGELICO’S CRUCIFIXION
Tempera and gold on wood, circa 1445
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue
Here is faith’s erotic life,
Prayer’s unfallen touch, whose brushstrokes hold
Strange virtues even now to halt
And hush our ...
Filibuster Bluster
Man, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in Mitch McConnell’s HQ on Election Night.
I have a vision of McConnell summoning Harry Reid and DNC chief ...