IN THE June 27, 2016, ISSUE
Doug Ducey’s Blooming, Booming Desert
A look at the Arizona governor’s record and goals
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Features
Doug Ducey’s Blooming, Booming Desert
A look at the Arizona governor’s record and goals
Books, Arts & Manners
Getting It Together
Baby Boomers have propagandized subsequent generations into accepting a version of history that has been “blinded by nostalgia.”
Herbert and Franklin
He succeeded at everything he touched — until he reached the presidency.
A Composer in the Shadow of the Commissars
Are American minds, however impressed by Russian artistry, unable to penetrate Russian reasoning and suffering?
The Great Eleventh
On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Celebrated Eleventh Edition
Nightmare Logic
There is no way to summarize the plot of The Lobster without making it sound like a parody of an artsy foreign-language film.
Sections
Letters
Spiritual Self-Interest
In the Week (April 11), a comparison between King David and Donald Trump was made. In describing David’s braveness, it was written: “As a boy, David fought his way ...
The Week
‐ Trump U. charged outrageous sums for worthless instruction, left graduates woefully unprepared for the job market, and bombarded students with meaningless jargon and self-affirming slogans. Sounds like a legit ...
Apologies and Clarifications
A few familiar-sounding messages from history’s monsters.
Secret Agent Woman
In case you haven’t been following the important debates on the Internet this year, people are wondering why James Bond can’t be a woman and why Captain America can’t be ...
Poetry
ALTAR
The altar of the great cathedral
brings indoors something of the majesty
of the open sky, as the architect
lifts the eyes of all from the altar
to the wide beauty and precision
of the ...
Where the Wild Things Aren’t
After thousands of years of attempts to eradicate untamed beasts, humans want to live in communion with dangerous undomesticated animals.