‘Dark,” “divisive,” and “dangerous” were a few of the negative descriptors that critics attached to President Trump’s inaugural address, and those were just the ones that start with “d.” (A few threw in “dystopian” for good measure.) The critics took him this way in part because he depicted the last few decades of American life as a hellscape from which he would shortly deliver us: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” But the critics also had this reaction because the address had a theme — nationalism — that has itself long been assumed in many quarters …
For Love of Country
A defense of nationalism
In This Issue
Articles
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
Mythical President
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy that Will Prevail
Clouds over the Pacific
Auslin issues a timely warning. It is not fated, he maintains, that Asia’s rise will continue smoothly or inexorably.
Fear and Trembling
It is a shame that Martin Scorsese’s "Silence," did not earn a Best Picture or Best Director Oscar nomination.
Notes from Underground
Do you know anyone who drives a pickup truck, the vehicle of those who labor in the earth, the chosen people of God?
Sections
Letters
Cyberia
Luke Thompson’s piece on cybersecurity was quite illuminating (“Our Failed Cybersecurity Policy,” January 23). His view that cybersecurity is not politically savvy and thus becomes an issue only after a ...
The Week
‐ We do not expect to miss Barack Obama, but we wish he’d give us a chance.
‐ Ronald Reagan first imposed the “Mexico City policy,” which blocks foreign-aid money from ...
Executive Disorder
There is a group of cautious supporters of some Trump initiatives who have set aside their opinion of Trump the man.
Craigslist Missed Connections, Protest Edition
Super Woke Lady Waiting in Line at Port-o-Potty in DC (m4w)
Was standing in line waiting to use the facilities when we struck up a convo and really clicked. Totally into ...
Poetry
TWILIGHT
A blazing sun caught in the trees
Attempts to set, but branches mesh
And hold the globe. Those rays they seize
Should now have been in Marrakesh.
We are just little figures there,
Absorbing errant ...
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