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IN THE December 21, 2015, ISSUE

The Essence of Katniss

By Ross Douthat

If there were an Oscar — and given the shape of the movie industry these days, maybe there should be — for Sustained Excellence across Multiple Installments of a Tentpole ...

Conservatism and the Conservatory

By Roger Scruton

Articles

Politics & Policy

Symbols and Their Limits

By Jay Nordlinger

After the latest terror attacks in Paris, a hashtag arose: “#PrayForParis.” A symbol arose, too. Designed by Jean Jullien, a French illustrator, it was a peace sign with the Eiffel ...

Politics & Policy

The Right to Be a Victim

By Kevin D. Williamson

In 1986, Leonard Hall of New York City got into a brawl with a man in a store at the corner of 127th Street and Lenox Avenue. Unsatisfied with the ...

Politics & Policy

U.S. health progress is badly faltering because of racial, social, and economic disparities, according to many public-health specialists, both in the academy and in Washington, D.C. Proponents of this view ...

Politics & Policy

With the Refugees

By Jillian Kay Melchior

The most chilling man I met in Eastern Europe had trekked from Serbia into Croatia, laboring through thick mud with a woman and two adorable children. He had a nice ...

Politics & Policy

The Spratly Showdown

By Arthur Herman

Obama-administration officials have been busy patting themselves on the back for what happened on October 27 in the South China Sea. There, the Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen passed ...

Politics & Policy

Jalen Rose’s Charter School

By John J. Miller

Detroit — Kids have it easy these days, goes the familiar complaint — and it’s wrong, says Jalen Rose, the retired basketball star. “It’s harder now,” he insists. “You know ...

Features

Politics & Policy

G.I. JAG

By David French

The car was moving at high speed. It had just broken a blockade of American and Iraqi forces and was trying to escape into the gathering dusk. American soldiers, driving ...

Politics & Policy

Fewer Guns, Less Homicide?

By Robert VerBruggen

The United States has a much higher homicide rate than just about any other highly developed country, and it also has much more civilian gun ownership. Further, within the U.S., ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

The Left’s Long Con

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Precious were the recriminations after the first Democratic presidential debate. Putative nominee Hillary Clinton, amid what is more a coronation than a contest, had proudly boasted of making the Republicans ...

Politics & Policy

The Virtues of Ben Bernanke

By Kevin D. Williamson

Ben Bernanke’s new book is a must-read, which is to say it will be read only by those of us who must, of whom there are more than a few, ...

Politics & Policy

The GOP’s Spirit of ’96

By Michael F. Bishop

He was a man of modest birth and a longtime Ohio congressman, with a passion for fiscal policy and a driving ambition for the White House. He sought to expand ...

Politics & Policy

Conservatism and the Conservatory

By Roger Scruton

The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, either believing, with the libertarians, that in this matter people should be ...

Politics & Policy

The Essence of Katniss

By Ross Douthat

If there were an Oscar — and given the shape of the movie industry these days, maybe there should be — for Sustained Excellence across Multiple Installments of a Tentpole ...

Sections

Happy Warrior

Apropos Appropriation

By David Harsanyi

If there’s one thing American moviegoers want to see in their campy computer-generated Hollywood blockbusters, it’s ethnically authentic actors. Or so I imagine. Because of an unhealthy obsession with the ancient ...

Politics & Policy

Letter

By NR Staff

An Embracing America I loved “Civil-Rights Republicanism” by Theodore R. Johnson (November 2). I’m an immigrant. I believe that America is so great that it can embrace us wanna-be Americans and ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

&dash; President Obama insisted that gathering in Paris to eat canapés and chat about the weather in the wake of the horrific Islamic State attack on that city constitutes a ...

Athwart

Of Carbon and Capricorn

By James Lileks

Survey says: Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe in pseudo-science that they think affects their lives directly but really has no bearing whatsoever. But enough about climate change. Turns ...

Politics & Policy

Dear Residents of Whoville:

By Rob Long

By now, you’ve probably noticed that the various gifts and decorations you associate with your holiday have been removed during the night. I don’t expect that this discovery has made you ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sarah Ruden

ENTITLED WILDLIFE I’ve fought my way to easier days – So others should who find life hard. So why are there, beneath my gaze, So many single mothers in my yard? They even carp when ...

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