IN THE April 11, 2016, ISSUE
The Truth about Trade
It has revealed, not created, problems in the American economy.
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Features
The Truth about Trade
It has revealed, not created, problems in the American economy.
Why White-Nationalist Thugs Thrill to Trump
Donald Trump, white nationalists, and the politics of the crowd.
Books, Arts & Manners
Facing War
"Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century," by Alistair Horne (Harper, 400 pp., $28.99)
There and Back Again
"The Chestry Oak," by Kate Seredy (Purple House Press, 254 pp., $12.95)
Black Box
The movie that you expect 10 Cloverfield Lane to be from its opening sequence collapses into something considerably more interesting.
We Americans and Our Spies
"Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror" by Michael V. Hayden
Benefactors with Great Wealth
"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right," by Jane Mayer (Doubleday, 464 pp., $29.95)
Sections
Letters
Bush Appreciated
Thanks to Jay Nordlinger for his “43 and His Theme: A Visit with George W. Bush” (March 14). It’s a shame that Bush didn’t do more, rhetorically, to defend ...
The Week
‐ Bernie Sanders’s campaign is fading, leaving his supporters red, white, and blue.
‐ It is neither a surprise nor an accident that the latest major Islamist terrorist attack to befall ...
Final Bulletin
FINAL BULLETIN
The 2016 National Review
Post-Election Cruise,
Official Program
Thanks for signing up for the 2016 National Review Post-Election Cruise aboard Holland America’s luxurious cruise ship MS Nieuw Amsterdam. We will be ...
The Buena Vista Socialism Club
Bernie Sanders will be a footnote in the long sweep of electoral history, but he did clarify the views of many progressives when it comes to the free market.
Poetry
WOMAN AT A MOTEL WINDOW
Frost from her breath on glass,
Thin arteries made dark
By a slow finger’s pass,
Are the hand’s speech, and mark
As something to be said
Her waiting emptiness.
She writes; behind ...
The Trump Trainwreck
Forty-odd years of marshaling these millions of Trump voters to the causes of lower taxes, freer markets, and strong global leadership? That’s nothing to sneeze at, people.