Magazine

IN THE December 31, 2015, ISSUE

The New Melting Pot

By Reihan Salam

A new culture war is breaking out in America. Unlike the culture wars of the recent past, this one isn’t about the place of Judeo-Christian values in our public life, ...

Self-Defense and the Second Amendment

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Articles

Politics & Policy

Cruz vs. Rubio

By Ramesh Ponnuru

Freud wasn’t talking about party primaries when he coined the phrase “the narcissism of small differences,” but he might as well have been. The similarities between Senators Ted Cruz and ...

Politics & Policy

Discriminating Discrimination

By Kevin D. Williamson

Donald Trump has a peculiar talent for turning good ideas into bad ones. This is related to his talent for salesmanship, which demands that he deal in superlatives and simplicities. An ...

Politics & Policy

Reclaiming Traditional Education

By Samuel Goldman

John Stuart Mill described conservatives “as being by a law of their existence the stupidest party.” The present candidates for the GOP nomination seem determined to prove him right. Marco Rubio ...

Politics & Policy

The True Sprit of Chrismas*

By Aloïse Buckley Heath

Many persons our ages of 12, 10, 8, 6 think the Sprit of Chrismas is about toys and presents instead of about the real sprit. These persons are immature and ...

Features

Politics & Policy

The New Melting Pot

By Reihan Salam

A new culture war is breaking out in America. Unlike the culture wars of the recent past, this one isn’t about the place of Judeo-Christian values in our public life, ...

Politics & Policy

Self-Defense and the Second Amendment

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Of all the ill-considered tropes that are trotted out in anger during our ongoing debate over gun control, perhaps the most irritating is the claim that the Constitution may indeed ...

Politics & Policy

Climate Play-Acting

By Oren Cass

Goalposts move all the time, but rarely are they disassembled and carted away, leaving the teams to circle aimlessly while the crowd roars and the commentators prattle on as if ...

Politics & Policy

On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men

By Jonah Goldberg

In the opening sequence of the 1988 film Scrooged, there’s a trailer for a movie called “The Night the Reindeer Died.” In this fictitious made-for-TV movie, Santa’s workshop is attacked ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

The Reductionist Trap

By Daniel Foster

The author of this always-informative new ode to Darwinism took a doctorate in zoology at Oxford. I am a grad-school dropout who took geology (Rocks for Jocks!) to avoid math ...

Politics & Policy

A New Christian

By Sarah Ruden

Just a few things are widely known about Augustine of Hippo (354–430 a.d.), whose designations are as lofty and sweeping as saint, doctor (= “teacher”) of the Church, and the ...

Politics & Policy

Mystery Man

By Robert Dean Lurie

Writing about Bob Dylan’s politics would seem to be a thankless task. The famously curmudgeonly songwriter claims to know and care little about the subject, and what he has said ...

Politics & Policy

An American Original

By Jay Nordlinger

New Market, Va. — Clive A. Babkirk is a Yankee in the South. He and his wife, Lois, are Mainers who live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Each has ...

Politics & Policy

True Grit

By Ross Douthat

The movie poster for Room shows a young mother, head tilted back, garbed in comfortable-looking gray, swinging her little boy in her arms. He’s wearing a plaid jacket, a raccoon ...

Politics & Policy

Down by Winter

By Richard Brookhiser

I have flown into the city dozens of times, but this time — slam — it felt like a crash-landing in my ears. Nothing — yawning, swallowing, those little rubber ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Can Peace in the Middle East Be So Simple? In “The Islamic War” (December 7), Victor Davis Hanson wonders why Islamists despise us “all the more” as the Middle East has ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

‐ It figures: Homeland Security has the only government employees who don’t spend enough of their workday on Facebook . . . ‐ Senator Cruz is rising in the polls, both ...

Athwart

Feel the (Non-Fossil-Fuel) Bern!

By James Lileks

The Paris climate-change agreement is a remarkable document. If every printed copy were wadded up into a gigantic ball, it could be stuffed down the chimney of a Chinese coal ...

The Long View

From https://wikileaks.org/clintonemailserver/recoveredemails/index

By Rob Long

TO: sidblume@sbloompartnersllc.ae FROM: bubbalicious@otherclintonemailserver.biz RE: account transfer Sid: Was hoping to get $10 million transferred to my personal account from the wire transfer we’re getting from the Saudis. I’ll also need about $500k in ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By Sally Cook

WINTER SONG As we unfreeze our rosy faces We envy friends in warmer places, Though we are wont to wish them well, Even those toasting toes in hell. We feast on heavy meat, creamed peas, Fried ...

Politics & Policy

The Philosopher Suffers a Toothache

By Heather Wilhelm

Like many writers, I spend a fair amount of time each day combing through Twitter, one of the planet’s more frenetic social-media locales. In case you have never darkened its ...

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