IN THE July 20, 2015, ISSUE
After Obergefell
‘Just who do we think we are?” That was Chief Justice John Roberts’s plaintive query to his five colleagues — Justice Anthony Kennedy and the four liberal justices — as ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
Hacking OPM
The year 2014 was not a great one for American security interests, from the Russian invasion of Crimea to the rise of the Islamic State and China’s creeping expansionism in ...
Take It Down
The Confederate States of America hasn’t been in operation for a century and a half. Nevertheless, after a photograph of mass murderer Dylann Roof holding a toy-sized Confederate flag flashed ...
After Obergefell
‘Just who do we think we are?” That was Chief Justice John Roberts’s plaintive query to his five colleagues — Justice Anthony Kennedy and the four liberal justices — as ...
Washington Takes On the Zoning Board
Nearly lost in the uproar over end-of-term rulings on Obamacare and same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court’s surprise decision in a “disparate impact” housing case may soon be seen as being ...
Acceptable Jeb
The voter who passionately supports Jeb Bush’s campaign but hasn’t already written him a five-figure check is the Bigfoot of the 2016 election cycle: The species is rumored to roam ...
Features
Poor and Isolated
For a very long time, fighting poverty has been a kind of boutique issue for conservatives. The 2016 election season has been no different: Over the past few months, the ...
Sucker-Punch Politics
There is some controversy over the Islamic term taqiyya, generally understood as a principle of self-preservation permitting Muslims to deceive infidels when the numbers are against them without incurring divine ...
The Long Shot
Corning, Iowa — There are 40 chairs set out in the foyer of the Corning Opera House. For the record, Corning, Iowa, does not seem like a big opera town. ...
Nevada’s Bet on School Choice
Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada once said that he envied Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Did Sandoval really want to put up with the massive protests, death threats, and recall ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Prima Ballerina
When Julie Kent made her entrance as Juliet the other night, the applause for her was long and loud. And she seemed more girlish than ever, as she frolicked around ...
Trail of Tears
People just love Inside Out, the new Pixar entertainment, which takes place mostly inside the mind of an eleven-year-old girl, Riley, after she’s uprooted and moved by her parents from ...
The Old Order
Time is the great optometrist: It changes how we see things. It chastens fashion and stifles shock. There is no point in being up to the minute when the minute ...
A Civil, Respectful Cudgeling
By the time that Charles Murray sat down to write this book, he had decided that he’d had enough. During the process, he confides in the acknowledgments, his wife had ...
The Speech Police, Ascendant
Some lives matter more than others. Smith College president Kathleen McCartney learned this lesson the hard way after sending an e-mail last December that declared “All Lives Matter.” The e-mail ...
Band of Brothers
This book poses the inevitable question of how someone who has never worn a uniform, let alone fired a shot in anger, dares to write about men’s experience in battle. ...
Sections
Letters
Choo-choo-choosing Sides
“It has now passed the point of no return. Bonds have been sold, ground has been broken. The project will go forward, and Florida will soon find out whether ...
The Week
‐ Love 1, Constitution 0.
‐ Dylann Roof killed nine members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, ages 26 to 87 (one was the pastor and a state senator). ...
Warning Shot
From the blog Everyday Feminism: “Everyday Feminism definitely believes in giving people a heads up about material that might provoke our reader’s trauma. However, we use the phrase ‘content warning’ ...
Transcript from the Al Jazeera Political Talk Show The Al-Irshad Group
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Host Al-Irshad: “Issue One! Allah created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Faisal! On Friday, an extraordinary ruling by the United States Supreme Court, called ‘SCOTUS’ by ...
Poetry
ORDINARY TIME
Mirror of spring, the sky at morning yields
Its solitudes and clouds to unseen fields
As if we always knew some other place.
Analysis is tricky. At six or so
The light sweeps ...
Romantic Comity
For reasons that should be obvious (particularly if you’ve already read the rest of this issue of NR), this is not an ideal time to be assigned the task of ...