IN THE October 2, 2017, ISSUE The Minimal Mayor By Kyle Smith You would think Bill de Blasio mattered; you would be wrong.
Politics & Policy Democrats and Plutocrats By Reihan Salam Silicon Valley megabucks may reshape the party’s policies in unexpected ways.
Politics & Policy The Curious Case of the Disappearing Laptop By Andrew C. McCarthy House Democrats face a brewing IT scandal.
Politics & Policy The Neo-Brandeisian Attack on Big Business By Robert D. Atkinson & Michael Lind Large firms benefit society in underappreciated ways.
Culture David Mamet’s Prescience By Graham Hillard Oleanna anticipated today’s campus ‘rape culture’ fights.
National Security & Defense A Missile Defense Agenda By Thomas Karako We must ‘rebalance’ in the right way.
Books Regime Change By David Pryce-Jones A review of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, by William Taubman.
Books Gods and Monsters By Andrew Stuttaford A review of Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, by Eric Kurlander.
Books Word Games By Elizabeth Powers A review of The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel, by Laurent Binet.
Books The Christian Encounter By Thomas S. Hibbs A review of Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom, by Julián Carrón.
The Week The Week By NR Editors The Boston Red Sox announced the hiring of Edward Snowden as bench coach.
Athwart Thoughts from an Ocean Crossing By James Lileks The commercials say just as much about a culture as the movies do.
The Long View Excerpts from What Happened By Rob Long Hillary Clinton reflects on politics, feminism, and the mistakes she made in the 2016 presidential race, all with her trademark frankness.
Happy Warrior Modified Limited Hangouts By David Harsanyi Let’s just say that here at Google we do not believe that one sex is ‘fairer’ than the other.