IN THE July 30, 2018, ISSUE
Borderline Disorder
How Angela Merkel’s open borders roiled Europe and undermined her
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
The Man from Harpers Ferry
Patrick Morrisey runs for the Senate in a politically transformed West Virginia.
Battle of the Chesapeake
Virginia ‘is turning blue, and the Republicans are . . . turning crazy.’
Features
The Sea Will Not Be Tamed
On China’s formidable, flawed effort to turn naval strategy upside down.
California Nightmare
What the Golden State needs is a conservatism of shared prosperity.
Books, Arts & Manners
Wisconsin Spring
Charles J. Sykes reviews The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, by Dan Kaufman.
Funding the Family
Robert VerBruggen reviews The Fiscalization of Social Policy: How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight against Child Poverty, by Joshua T. McCabe.
Poet of Plain Things
Nick Ripatrazone reviews Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser.
Sections
George Will’s Earthquake
“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.”
The Laziest Insult
It sometimes seems that contemporary liberals have only two points of historical reference: The first is Watergate and the second is Adolf Hitler.