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To Protest in Russia
As of this writing, Ildar Dadin is alive and well. He is a prisoner — but he is no longer being tortured, and his family no longer fears for his ...

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Books, Arts & Manners


Prospects for Growth
The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

Dark Intellect
Philosopher, novelist and short-story writer, man of the theater, left-wing political activist — Jean-Paul Sartre was the very model of the 20th-century public intellectual.

True Inventions
William Egginton’s book is easy and unsatisfying. I mean both as praise.

Epic of the Midlands
Known for his fictional worlds, Moore mines the very real past of a very real place.

Hollywood on Hollywood
When it comes to recent Best Picture handicapping, you rarely go wrong betting on movies about Hollywood itself.
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Letters
Against Big-Government Conservatism
Samuel R. Staley argues for a permanent revolving-loan bank (“The Infrastructure Bank We Need,” December 31). Staley conditions his proposal on the bank’s being “properly designed and constrained,” ...

The Week
‐ So there were no left-wing Puerto Rican transsexual terrorists in federal prison?
‐ Representative John Lewis (D., Ga.) announced that he would skip Donald Trump’s inauguration: “I don’t see this ...


From the Archives of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library
The Collected Diaries of Donald J. Trump, Chapter 7: “Growth Spurt”

Poetry
AT THE CHAPEL OF THE PINK SISTERS
The crosses on the convent roofs
Gleam sharply as the sun comes up.
— Wallace Stevens, “Botanist on Alp (No. 2)”
The March wind blows past the ...

Seven Lean Years
By the time you read this, Donald Trump will have been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.