IN THE June 22, 2015, ISSUE
The High Way
Denver — The Weed Man has emerged from the shadows, he has come out from the seedy backrooms and dank basement apartments, and he is all up in the Chamber ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
The Case for Coverage
Just how important is it that everybody in the United States be able to get health insurance? Conservatives are ambivalent, at best, about that goal. Many of them think that ...
Work-Visa Wisdom
To understand the future of the immigration debate, one must first understand the H-1B visa program. Though not very well known among ordinary Americans, the program, first established in 1990, ...
Writing Brave
Oslo — Does Zineb El Rhazoui ever think of going off and leading a quiet life, maybe teaching school somewhere? Must she remain in the fray? “It’s too late for ...
To a Planet Unknown
When the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, the writer H. P. Lovecraft recognized that this piece of late-breaking news could give one of his far-fetched tales a hint ...
Features
The High Way
Denver — The Weed Man has emerged from the shadows, he has come out from the seedy backrooms and dank basement apartments, and he is all up in the Chamber ...
Indefensible Defense
Continual warfare in the Middle East, a nuclear Iran, electromagnetic-pulse weapons, emerging pathogens, and terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction variously threaten the United States, some with catastrophe on a ...
Deadly Environmentalism
The 950 residents of King Cove, Alaska, have been trying to build an emergency road to nearby Cold Bay. They have been trying to build the road for 40 years.
King ...
Books, Arts & Manners
The Return of the Native
It all hinged on his passport. Shawn came here in the mid Eighties on a work visa, which he overstayed. A kindly bureaucracy might overlook that, if he could establish ...
The Pursuit of Virtue
The author of this book kicks off with the ostentatious claim that “I wrote it, to be honest, to save my own soul.” I merely read it, so I don’t ...
Wings of the Dove
My first impression of this book was unfavorable. Emerson said that writing ought to be an effort “to drop every dead word,” and thought surprise the first principle of style. ...
Generation Gaps
Hard-hit by the recession, floundering in the job market, and suffering under the weight of massive debt — of both the student and the government variety — today’s youth are ...
The Ballad of John and Cyn
‘I really don’t want to be looked upon as some kind of victim,” Cynthia Lennon told me in her low, purring voice. It was 2010, and after a year of ...
A Rousing Return
There are few stranger curricula vitae in the movie business than the one compiled by the Australian director George Miller. In the late Seventies and Eighties, he was the auteur ...
Sections
Letters
Carry On?
Jerry Hendrix is not the first to disparage the Navy’s and the Congress’s decision to continue building and improving the large aircraft carrier. Critics have disparaged this decision all ...
The Week
‐ The Clintons have created a shell corporation that exists solely to advance their interests and shield them from accountability. It’s called the Democratic party.
‐ Fox News, which will host ...
Pool Report: White House Press Corps
March 22, 2017
0430: President Sanders wakes and wanders around the residence in his underwear asking why young people are so rude these days. He is guided back to his bedroom ...
Poetry
THURBER’S VETERANS
They brooded on the porches of Columbus
Forty years after ’61, when they went
South, crossed the Ohio, battled the rebels
And returned. By 1900 there were
Still dozens of them left in ...
The Sex-and-Gender Interregnum
Resembling a third-place finisher in a Rene Russo lookalike contest — and I’m honestly confused about whether I mean that as a compliment — the celebrity formerly known as Bruce ...