IN THE October 24, 2016, ISSUE
James Comey’s Dereliction
Of course the Obama administration was not going to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Slanted Justice
Or the use of administrative diktat to make rock ’n’ roll and pro football polite.
The ‘Diploma Divide’ Explains Why Iowa Looks Better for Trump Than New Hampshire
In Iowa and New Hampshire, educational attainment best predicts presidential preference.
The Contest for the Senate
Polling suggests that Trump has been a drag on the ticket.
Features
James Comey’s Dereliction
Of course the Obama administration was not going to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Books, Arts & Manners
Troubled Genius
"Blood Father," a kind of toe-in-the-water comeback for Mel Gibson the actor.
Light in the Night
In bringing the pieces together in a single, deftly edited volume, Rosen has assembled an epicure’s delight of a portrait gallery.
Firing Line at 50
Professor Hendershot has just published a magisterial account not only of a television program, but also, more ambitiously, of a political culture.
Class Act
First famous, then forgotten: Such is the melancholy fate of most best-selling writers. Not so for John O'Hara.
Tradition’s Comeback
It's popular to say that the culture wars are over, and the conservatives have lost. R. R. Reno takes a different view.
Inside the Circus
"I am overtaken with surges of gratitude for my life,” writes John le Carré in this witty, charming, self-deprecating memoir, and the reader understands why.
Sections
Letters
Tangents to Heinlein
Interesting that two huge themes with no apparent connection appeared in the October 10 issue: John Fonte & John Yoo’s “Progressivism Goes Global,” and Charles C. W. Cooke’s ...
The Week
‐ Gary Johnson may not know where Aleppo is, but he always knows where the Doritos are.
‐ Lester Holt is a registered Republican, but he clearly doesn’t let his partisan ...
‘Investigate the Amatory Photogravure’
"Check out the sex tape” are five words you do not want to hear from a presidential candidate.
Poetry
DAWN WIND
The day comes with a dawn wind
brisk enough to ripple the broad
waters circling back beneath the
waterfall, where the sheet of ice
at the edge of those circling waters,
the chunks of ...
The Quiet Sport, Loudly
Over the course of three days, over a sprawl of green and hundreds of satisfying golf-ball thwacks, the Americans dominated the Europeans and won the Ryder Cup.