IN THE July 29, 2019, ISSUE A Herd Has No Mind By Kevin D. Williamson Of mob politics and the decline of reasoned discourse.
Founders of the Frontier: David McCullough Discovers Ohio’s Puritan Pioneers Founders of the Frontier: David McCullough Discovers Ohio’s Puritan Pioneers By John Daniel Davidson
World Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Human-Rights Leader By Jay Nordlinger A conversation with the former political prisoner.
Magazine The Fantastic Robert E. Howard By John J. Miller Conan the Barbarian’s creator is finally remembered in his hometown.
PC Culture A Herd Has No Mind By Kevin D. Williamson Of mob politics and the decline of reasoned discourse.
Politics & Policy The Right Liberalism By Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry And the dead end of illiberalism.
Education Myths of Student-Loan Debt By Robert VerBruggen The system needs reform, but not all borrowers are victims.
Music Michael Tippett’s ‘Timeless Music in Time’ By Douglas Murray Remembering the late composer’s achievement.
Books A Plan to Cut the Murder Rate That Conservatives Should Get Behind By Robert VerBruggen A review of Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence—and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets, by Thomas Abt.
Books Founders of the Frontier: David McCullough Discovers Ohio’s Puritan Pioneers By John Daniel Davidson A review of The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough.
Books Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden By Algis Valiunas A review of Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren, by Colin Asher.
Letters Letters By NR Editors After Harvey Mansfield’s disinvitation from Concordia University, a professor writes in to NR to clarify. Plus, Fred Schwartz on baseball.
The Week The Week By NR Editors The Canadian newspaper the National Post reports, ‘Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost.’ Good news for Joe Biden.
Athwart Girth Dearth By James Lileks According to the Left, it is bad to stigmatize the mentally ill, but unless you have the proper opinions on social issues, you have a mental illness.
The Long View Third Presidential Debate By Rob Long Transcript of a debate between President Trump and Marianne Williamson.
Poetry Army Base, South of Jerusalem, Friday Night By P. David Hornik In the first deep darkness, during lit candles and prayer, I walked alone past the mess hall with my phone.
Happy Warrior The Party of Crazy By Kyle Smith Should we abolish the private health insurance that 217 million Americans now carry? Yep! says Sandinista Bill de Blasio. Sure! says Bolshie Bernie Sanders.