IN THE June 25, 2018, ISSUE
My Harvard Speech in Retrospect
Solzhenitsyn’s reflections on his critics.
Also In This Issue
Articles
Taiwan’s Challenge
It continues to carve out its own identity, despite Beijing’s wishes to the contrary.
Features
Dictator Lit
A fair number of books can be counted a disgrace to literature. But only a special type of book stands as an embarrassment to printing.
Books, Arts & Manners
Second-Person Politics
Gerald J. Russello reviews Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, by Roger Scruton.
Pictures of Hell
David Pryce-Jones reviews The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately.
The Necessary Navy
Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea, by John Lehman.
Sections
From the Twitter Feed of Kim Jong-Un, @youthcaptain
DM @realDonaldTrump Hey, so it looks like this thing is on, right? We’re going to meet in Singapore?
Fair as Feck
To remind her audience that they were good people and so that they could applaud her bravery, Samantha Bee called the president’s daughter a “feckless c***.”
The Art of ‘Who Cares?’
Our culture, it seems, could use a good, old-fashioned influx of “Who cares?”