Also In This Issue
Articles
A History Lesson for the President
Trump understands Andrew Jackson better than the Civil War.
Tax Federalism
Ending the state-and-local deduction would help make blue states pay their way.
Populism’s False Start
The Trump administration should become more responsive to voters’ concerns.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
Sahara of the Beaux Arts
Ahmari attended screenings, exhibits, workshops, etc. and offers here the depressing results of his tour of “the hard left avant-garde and the identity-politics hucksters.”
On the Run
In Aslam’s rendering, present-day Pakistan just might be the world-historical capital of fatalism.
Closed Circle
There are two ways to make technology terrifying. "The Circle" does them both.
Enlightened Lincoln
George Saunders takes the death of Lincoln's son as the premise of his first novel, which is among the less likely and more moving works of fiction I have read.
Sections
Sociopolitical Media
Whatever your opinion of Donald Trump, you have to admit: He was right about perverts.
