National Review Magazine August 28, 2017, Issue

IN THE August 28, 2017, ISSUE

The Case for Skills-Based Immigration

By Reihan Salam

It makes sense economically and morally.

The Fred & Karl Show

By Kyle Smith

On the Beach

By Ross Douthat

Recovering the Soul of Conservatism

By James E. Person Jr.

A Family Riven by Revolution

By Tracy Lee Simmons

Articles

Politics & Policy

Wretched Refuse, Indeed

By Kevin D. Williamson

About that poem . . .

Politics & Policy

Prosecuting Politics

By David French

In Texas, criminal law is being twisted to destroy officeholders.

Politics & Policy

Jared and Other Sons-In-Law

By Jay Nordlinger

Angles on a relationship.

Politics & Policy

Who Critiques the Critic?

By Ian Tuttle

On the career of Michiko Kakutani.

Features

Politics & Policy

The Case for Skills-Based Immigration

By Reihan Salam

It makes sense economically and morally.

Politics & Policy

In Defense of Jeff Sessions

By Heather Mac Donald

His work on policing and immigration merits praise.

Politics & Policy

The Agony of Venezuela

By Pierpaolo Barbieri

How a prospering democracy sank into dictatorship and hunger.

Politics & Policy

Trump’s Conservative Internationalism

By Henry R. Nau

It aims at a globalism rooted in nationalism.

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

The New Manichaeans

By Michael Knox Beran

What does the left look like after identity politics?

Politics & Policy

Two Kinds Of People

By Terry Teachout

"Ernest Hemingway" & "Paradise Lost" are on Amazon now.

Politics & Policy

The Great Ladder

By Robert VerBruggen

How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It

Politics & Policy

A Family Riven by Revolution

By Tracy Lee Simmons

The War in Ben Franklin’s House

Politics & Policy

Recovering the Soul of Conservatism

By James E. Person Jr.

Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition

Politics & Policy

On the Beach

By Ross Douthat

Is Nolan’s latest film his first true masterpiece, or another handsome, near-great effort that pleases his fans but leaves his critics unpersuaded?

Sections

Letters

By NR Editors

College as Experiment Oren Cass makes a strong case (“Teaching to the Rest,” July 31) that many of today’s high-school students would be better off taking career training instead of college ...

The Week

By NR Editors

‐ Looks like Google dropped its “Don’t be evil” motto just in time. ‐ The personnel crises of the Trump administration are like groupies: There are so many, who can remember ...

The Long View

Okay Google

By Rob Long

“Please input a more woke query.”

Athwart

Apocalypse Hound

By James Lileks

Perhaps you saw the story on the Internet in August: Climate-change activists want to ban dogs and cats.

Poetry

By Jessica Hornik

AMONG OTHERS Working alone in the house, I look to the solitary sculls passing on the river for a sense that I am among others. The geese— my dogs—convene in the yard near the water. A summer in ...

Happy Warrior

The Fred & Karl Show

By Kyle Smith

We will never be rid of Marxism because new generations will keep insisting that it’s a new thing.

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