IN THE July 30, 2018, ISSUE Borderline Disorder By Douglas Murray How Angela Merkel’s open borders roiled Europe and undermined her
Politics & Policy The Man from Harpers Ferry By John J. Miller Patrick Morrisey runs for the Senate in a politically transformed West Virginia.
Politics & Policy Battle of the Chesapeake By Alexandra DeSanctis Virginia ‘is turning blue, and the Republicans are . . . turning crazy.’
Culture So Long, Shakespeare By Kevin D. Williamson New York’s Public Theater continues to vandalize the Bard.
World Borderline Disorder By Douglas Murray How Angela Merkel’s open borders roiled Europe and undermined her
World The Sea Will Not Be Tamed By Jerry Hendrix On China’s formidable, flawed effort to turn naval strategy upside down.
Politics & Policy California Nightmare By Luke Thompson What the Golden State needs is a conservatism of shared prosperity.
Books Wisconsin Spring By Charles J. Sykes Charles J. Sykes reviews The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, by Dan Kaufman.
Books Funding the Family By Robert VerBruggen Robert VerBruggen reviews The Fiscalization of Social Policy: How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight against Child Poverty, by Joshua T. McCabe.
Books Poet of Plain Things By Nick Ripatrazone Nick Ripatrazone reviews Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser.
Letters Letters By NR Editors A reader asks Nicholas Eberstadt, “Would Kim Jong-Un Invade South Korea?”
The Week The Week By NR Editors The Chinese cat that accurately predicted World Cup matches died suddenly. But are they sure it isn’t just flopping?
Athwart George Will’s Earthquake By James Lileks “There really isn’t a way to express how seismic it is for @GeorgeWill of all people to tell Republicans to vote for Democrats in November.”
Happy Warrior The Laziest Insult By David Harsanyi It sometimes seems that contemporary liberals have only two points of historical reference: The first is Watergate and the second is Adolf Hitler.