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Articles
Felicity Huffman and the Stagecraft of Apologies
You’re not sorry if you’re trying to get something by saying so.
Features
The Constitution Was Never Pro-Slavery
It was deliberately written to avoid establishing a legal precedent for ownership of human beings.
The Not-So-Incredible Shirking Congress
Presidential power is out of control, and our legislature must reassert itself.
Books, Arts & Manners
Big Business: Tyler Cowen’s Compelling Case for Large Corporations
A review of Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero, by Tyler Cowen.
Ben Shapiro’s Right Side of History: A Call to Reclaim the West’s Birthright
A review of The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, by Ben Shapiro.
Samuel Johnson’s World
A review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch.
Socialism’s Life after Death
A review of Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism, by Joshua Muravchik.
Sections
Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 1: Recap
This episode opened with echoes of the first episode of the first season...
For Russell Kirk
‘The panting ideologues locked in their rooms hear the word ‘order’ and cry out in fear...’