IN THE November 7, 2016, ISSUE
The Blue Wave
Republicans must adapt to a diversifying electorate or lose their influence.
Also In This Issue
Articles
Showing Mercy to Suffering Animals Is Not ‘Criminal Mischief’
One woman’s act of mercy invites us to reflect on the suffering of animals.
Features
The Cronyist Threat
Conservatives should act to restore confidence in free markets.
The Blue Wave
Republicans must adapt to a diversifying electorate or lose their influence.
Books, Arts & Manners
Dark Loyalties
In her riveting page-turner, which includes information from previously unavailable archival manuscripts, Kati Marton offers us the full story of Noel Field.
The Downside of Romneyism
Edward Conard's book serves as an inadvertent reminder of the flaws in the donor-class economics that were a significant force in pre-Trump Republican politics.
Cold War Redux
Rarely has a book been as timely and relevant as this one, a valuable summary of how Russia’s aggressive foreign policy is reshaping the world.
Today’s Nat Turner
"The Birth of a Nation" has the raw material of a great American epic, but the execution is disappointingly ham-handed.
Apple-Picking Time
You can buy autumn produce in the stores, but if that were enough, why do the country u-pick places fill this time of year with customers?
The Facts on Immigration
George Borjas’s new book doesn’t tell you what to think about immigration, but how to think about it.
Sections
The Week
‐ Bob Dylan is to literature as Barack Obama is to peace.
‐ “How is that not classified?” That was the stunned reaction of Clinton confidante Huma Abedin upon learning that ...
‘Tear Down This Big, Beautiful Wall’
An anecdote about another famous wall and the citizens affected by it.
A Professional Correspondence
"IN RE: CLINTON–CLINTON CONTINUATION OF MARRIAGE AGREEMENT 2000, AND ADDENDA, UPDATED OCTOBER 2016"
Poetry
HOMELAND
“. . . I cannot sing
Amid this horror.”
– Anna Akhmatova
(early draft of “Poem without a Hero”)
Months pass without a single word recorded,
Eliminating each suspicious link:
The terrorizing, barbarizing, sordid,
The ones who ...
Books in Brief
Surreptitiously -- one might even say, with Sandburg, “on little cat feet” -- a social revolution has overtaken America.
Asymmetric Rhetorical Warfare
The bad news is the Left’s insistence that conservative institutions precipitated Trump is true. The good news is we'll have time to think of a solution.
Letters
Looking the Other Way on Abortion
Jay Nordlinger’s article “No More Baby” (September 26) concludes that we are a “deeply hypocritical society” because we won’t admit that killing a newborn baby is ...