Magazine December 31, 2014, Issue

From the Twitter feed of Kim Jung-un, @youthcaptain.

By Rob Long

December 18, 2014 4:00 AM

Seriously? Guys, just heard the wildest rumor about a movie Sony is making about yours truly! So excited! Getting deets ASAP from military intelligence! #gonnabeastar #gonnashinesobright #itsshowtime

Hey! @kimkardashian! I can do that with a glass of champagne too! Follow me back so I can DM you! #weshouldgettogether #bffs #thinkingaboutlaunchingalineofsportswear

#tbt to when my dad and I first met! #iwasfifteen #awkwardteenyears #helovedmeright? twitpic.com/2y3nj

Hillary’s inevitability is also her greatest liability. Strength can also be weakness. @newyorktimeseditorialboard Please consider me for when @paulkrugman is on vacation or giving a speech.

Not getting the dudes on @sharktankABC. Would so fund that WiFi-powered dog leash it’s crazy. …

In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

Against Secret Police

By Kevin D. Williamson

The December 7, 2014, New York Police Department CompStat report found that the number of shooting incidents in the city was up 4.5 percent year over year, while the total ...

Politics & Policy

Where You Are and What You Say

By Jay Nordlinger

There are fans of Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and libertarian. And there are critics. But they all tend to give him credit for one thing: speaking in venues ...

Politics & Policy

Follies of the Fifth Republic

By Robert Herritt

The critic Malcolm Cowley once noted that “the chief advantage of two years in France is to give you a taste for America.” In that spirit, those who are despondent ...

Politics & Policy

The Red-Light District

By John J. Miller

On December 5, Newark, N.J., mayor Ras Baraka hosted a press conference to talk about red-light cameras — devices that snap photos of drivers who violate traffic laws, allowing authorities ...

Politics & Policy

Before You Say No . . .

By Aloïse Buckley Heath

March 7 Dear Mrs. Heath: I wish to ask you a great favor. My brother David goes to Cranwell and he says they go easier on brothers, so I might have a ...

Features

Politics & Policy

To Carry the Fire

By Ian Tuttle

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. – “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets, T. S. ...

Politics & Policy

On a LARC

By Robert VerBruggen

Usually one makes the case for a policy before enacting it. Not so with the Left’s new push to promote long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and ...

Politics & Policy

Advice on ‘Advice and Consent’

By John R. Bolton & John Yoo

Despite the Democratic party’s losses in November’s elections, President Obama has audaciously begun ignoring constitutional restraints in order to impose his policy views. This is true not only on domestic ...

Politics & Policy

Justice of the People, by the People, for the People

By Stephanos Bibas & Richard A. Bierschbach

One day, police came to Christos and Markela Sourovelis’s North Philadelphia home with a search warrant. After threatening to shoot the family dog, they forced their way in and went ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Getting to Brussels

By John Fonte

Since the emergence 25 years ago of his groundbreaking essay “The End of History,” Francis Fukuyama has become one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. Political Order and Political Decay is ...

Politics & Policy

Roots of a Tyrant

By James Schneider

One brief paragraph terrorized Joseph Stalin. It was the postscript to the document known as Lenin’s Testament. That document has never been authenticated, yet it weighed on Stalin because, even ...

Politics & Policy

Writing the Coattails

By Andrew Stuttaford

About halfway through Britain’s long Blair nightmare, I went to two dinners where Boris Johnson was billed as the guest speaker. Each time he was eagerly awaited: a man on ...

Politics & Policy

The Great Calvinist American Novel

By Randy Boyagoda

Were he alive today, John Calvin wouldn’t be the first person I would invite to most book clubs. It’s hard to imagine he’d approve of the characteristic goings-on: the overemphasis ...

Politics & Policy

Hope for America

By Peter Tonguette

There is no small irony in the fact that the song “Thanks for the Memory” is so closely linked to the remarkable career of Bob Hope. That is what the ...

Politics & Policy

The Lady Prevails

By Ross Douthat

It’s a truism of the movie business that female stars are treated unkindly, and often cruelly, at an age when male careers are often just taking off. And it’s easy ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By Henry Olsen

Fellow Heroes I read with great pleasure your piece in “The Week” (December 8) regarding the long-overdue awarding of the Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing. However, I feel called ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By Henry Olsen

‐ Think about it from Jeb’s perspective: Would you want to be the only Bush who doesn’t get to be president? ‐ An armed Islamic radical took hostages in a café ...

From the Twitter feed of Kim Jung-un, @youthcaptain.

By Rob Long

Seriously? Guys, just heard the wildest rumor about a movie Sony is making about yours truly! So excited! Getting deets ASAP from military intelligence! #gonnabeastar #gonnashinesobright #itsshowtime Hey! @kimkardashian! I can ...

Athwart

Alienation

By James Lileks

Showman scientist and charismatic universe-explainer Neil deGrasse Tyson had some tweets the other day on the subject “When I was your age.” They were lessons about technological progress, aimed at ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sally Cook

PURSUIT She was a child possessed with fears Whose dreams revealed another place Where shadowed shapes that lived in mirrors Pursued her at a furious pace. She ran all night and every night And finally slept ...

The Poetic-Truth Beat

By David Harsanyi

For a number of years I worked as a metro columnist at a bustling city newspaper. For a time, my cubicle was located next to the investigation desk of the ...

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