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IN THE August 28, 2017, ISSUE

The Case for Skills-Based Immigration

By Reihan Salam

It makes sense economically and morally.

On the Beach

By Ross Douthat

Two Kinds Of People

By Terry Teachout

Trump’s Conservative Internationalism

By Henry R. Nau

The Agony of Venezuela

By Pierpaolo Barbieri

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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