Magazine

IN THE March 5, 2018, ISSUE

The Intellectual Emptiness of ‘White Supremacy’

If “white supremacy” explains everything, it explains nothing. It used to mean something: the KKK, Nazis, race-science crackpottery, etc.

A Monetary Correction

By David Beckworth & Ramesh Ponnuru

Dark Visionary

By Douglas Murray

A Fishy Left-Wing Tale

By Ross Douthat

Transcript: The View

By Rob Long

Articles

Economy & Business

A Monetary Correction

By David Beckworth & Ramesh Ponnuru

The Fed has erred by keeping money too tight, not too loose.

U.S.

Progressive Hamiltonians

By Jay Cost

Today’s Left has turned away from its democratic roots.

World

Reporting Under the Gun

By Jay Nordlinger

The lives of Mexican journalists.

U.S.

WFB Today

By Richard Brookhiser

In the age of Trump, the movement Bill Buckley founded needs rebuilding.

Features

Culture

The Intellectual Emptiness of ‘White Supremacy’

By Kevin D. Williamson

If “white supremacy” explains everything, it explains nothing. It used to mean something: the KKK, Nazis, race-science crackpottery, etc.

Education

The Resegregation Myth

By Robert VerBruggen

We are — however slowly — integrating ourselves voluntarily and leaving a system of forced integration behind.

U.S.

The Resegregation Myth

By Robert VerBruggen

Racial groups are integrating of their own volition.

Books

Dark Visionary

By Douglas Murray

Edward St. Aubyn demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the novel.

Books, Arts & Manners

Books

A Free People

By Daniel Johnson

A review of Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906, by David Cannadine.

Books

Moral Failure

By Theodore Kupfer

A review of Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It, by David L. Bahnsen.

Books

The Assault on Reality

By Rachel Lu

A review of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, by Ryan T. Anderson.

Books

The Struggle for Meaning

By Kelly Jane Torrance

A review of The World Goes On, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Film & TV

A Fishy Left-Wing Tale

By Ross Douthat

A review of the film, The Shape of Water.

Sections

Letters

By The Editors

The Editors of National Review answer reader questions.

Letters

By NR Staff

A reader writes in regarding liberalism.

The Week

By The Editors

In his new official portrait, as in his presidential rhetoric, Barack Obama just couldn’t quite get clear of the Bushes.

Culture

The Week

By NR Staff

In his new official portrait, as in his presidential rhetoric, Barack Obama just couldn’t quite get clear of the Bushes.

The Long View

Transcript: The View

By Rob Long

Satire: Rob Long imagines an interview between the hostesses of The View and Kim Yo Jong.

Athwart

He’s Talkin’ to You

By James Lileks

Robert De Niro has become a vocal voice in progressive circles.

Athwart

He’s Talkin’ to You

By James Lileks

On Robert De Niro’s politics

Poetry

By Sean Edward Kinsella

Before the Fall, by Sean Edward Kinsella.

Poetry

Before the Fall

By Sean Edward Kinsella

For we have fallen from a distant, happy height / A time when owls and stars our wonder did excite

Happy Warrior

The End Justifies the Obscene

By Kyle Smith

The sad tale of how Oxfam took advantage of the economic desperation in Haiti.

Magazine

The End Justifies the Obscene

By Kyle Smith

They took advantage of the economic desperation to surround themselves with prostitutes, some perhaps underage, according to British paper the Times.

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