IN THE October 5, 2015, ISSUE

The Inequality Cycle

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By one measure, opportunity and mobility are thriving in America. Children born into the lowest income quintile have almost exactly equal chances of arriving in any of the five income ...

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Politics & Policy

Pax Putinica

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As a staging ground for great-power rivalries, the Syrian civil war bears a startling similarity to the Spanish civil war that broke out nearly 80 years ago, in 1936 — ...
Politics & Policy

Break Up the Budget

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Republicans are once again contemplating a defeat on the budget followed by recriminations. This season the defeat will concern Planned Parenthood: Some Republicans think that they should take a stand ...
Politics & Policy

Social Justice at War

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Fallujah, May 17, 2018 — The results of the classified investigation into the first extended ground-combat engagement by a mixed-gender infantry platoon were grim indeed. The six-hour firefight on a ...
Politics & Policy

Goodbye, McKinley

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With a stroke, President Obama changed the name of Mount McKinley to “Denali.” “Denali” is an Indian name, or indigenous name. “McKinley,” obviously, is not. No doubt, Obama thought he ...

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The Inequality Cycle

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By one measure, opportunity and mobility are thriving in America. Children born into the lowest income quintile have almost exactly equal chances of arriving in any of the five income ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Not Inevitable

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It’s entirely possible that the legal battle over same-sex marriage was lost for lack of Ryan Andersons. There simply weren’t enough people like him — people capable of making a ...
Politics & Policy

The Real Detective

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Aside from Edgar Allan Poe (who, after all, pretty much invented the detective story), the most significant figure in the history of American mystery fiction is Dashiell Hammett, who brought ...
Politics & Policy

In the Arena

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The first movie I ever reviewed in these pages, almost ten years ago, was a mediocre adaptation of All the King’s Men, in which Sean Penn was miscast as the ...

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Letters

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We Can Handle the Truth Thanks to David Pryce-Jones for his article “The Truth-Teller” (September 7) about Robert Conquest, who exposed the atrocities of the Soviet Communists in the 20th century. While ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ The British Parliament voted against assisted suicide — except in the case of the Labour party. ‐ Joe Biden mulls his presidential options; on the same swing through New York ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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HOW WORDS USE US Words are the only way we have to tell Of far horizons hurtling into space, Or how a swaying limb invokes a spell On stars, to jostle them back into ...
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