IN THE August 24, 2015, ISSUE
David behind the Wheel
Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
Calculating Cruz
When Donald Trump’s presidential bid started attracting serious attention, it was perhaps unsurprising that Ted Cruz was the only other Republican candidate to offer kind words about his new rival. ...
What Is a Single Mother?
In 2013, families headed by single mothers were more than five times as likely to be poor as two-parent families. This ratio has been remarkably stable over time: Thirty years ...
Born in the U.S.A.
One of the most important questions America will face over the coming decades is how to successfully integrate the children of immigrants. As of 2013, there were 17.4 million children ...
Ajit Pai’s Fight for Internet Freedom
On February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission made its biggest announcement in years: The so-called open Internet and the related concept of net neutrality were to be enshrined in ...
The Kimono Kerfuffle
The work of re-educators is never done. Too much is at stake — power, jobs, research grants, the thrill of the chase, the drama of victimhood — for the process ...
Stick It to ’Em
Bumper stickers were a backdrop of my growing up, for I come from a lefty town, and the Left seems to love a bumper sticker. As I think back on ...
My Tomboy Heaven
The transgender trend has reached down to children. I wonder what people would have thought of my gender identity as a child. My experience says, yes, gender identity is complicated, ...
Features
David behind the Wheel
Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting ...
No Video, Please; We’re Killing Something
At the same time that scientific advances force us to gaze upon the animal kingdom with more respect, the proliferation of big and little cameras — of eyes everywhere — ...
Books, Arts & Manners
What Can-Do Conservatism Can’t Do
The founding of this magazine, 60 years ago, marked the emergence of a distinctly American conservatism. William Buckley and National Review posed two questions, fundamental and connected, that conservatives have ...
Out of the Dark Wood
I confess that I approached this book warily. “How Dante Can Save Your Life” is the sort of title that reminds one of the abundance of volumes about the power ...
China’s Fatal Attraction
Brutal autocracies have a peculiar fascination for certain liberals, especially if they write for the New York Times. Walter Duranty once spun paeans of praise for Stalin’s Soviet Union, even ...
Origin Stories
Mystique and Aura still perform their occasional magic for the New York Yankees but are slowing down. “Those are dancers in a nightclub,” Curt Schilling scoffed, before taking the ball ...
In the Belly of a Friendly Beast
We are entitled as citizens to help with our medical bills when we turn 65. The help is not open-ended: Only certain doctors will give it, and they may not ...
Sections
Letters
Sanders: Not a Nazi, Just a National Socialist
In “Adventures in National Socialism” (July 6), Kevin D. Williamson conflates Senator Bernie Sanders’s “democratic socialism” with National Socialism, the system of Adolf ...
The Week
‐ Planned Parenthood is clearly worried that this story has legs ($22/lb.).
‐ Telling a pollster you support Donald Trump, for some large percentage of those who do, is a way ...
National Security Agency Radio-Frequency Monitoring
LOCATION: Manchester, New Hampshire
FREQUENCY: 287.90 GHz
Begin Extract:
Static.
Female Voice: “Why is she standing there frozen?”
Male Voice: “Mrs. Clinton? Can you hear us?”
Female Voice: “Oh my God. A voter asked her a ...
Cecil-Justice Warriors
The Aussie voice on the other end of the phone explained that it was calling from a Melbourne talk-radio station, and could I say a few words about Cecil the ...
Poetry
VASE OF ROSES
The sunrise burned so bright behind
and within the mists of daybreak as
to overspill a radiance across the long
curve of horizon, broken by the dark line
of trees above the ...
Socialism for Dummies
When I first heard that Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn’t explain to Chris Matthews the difference between what Democrats believe and what socialists believe, I chalked it up to her incompetence. ...