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IN THE August 12, 2019, ISSUE

The American Worker: An Introduction

By Rich Lowry

Our authors sketch out a pro-worker agenda, which begins with a greater appreciation of Americans who don’t have four-year college degrees.

College Does Not Make You a Better Person

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Kevin Williamson’s Revolt against the Hivemind

By Noah Rothman

What Is the Purpose of High School?

By Ramesh Ponnuru

President Judge Judy

By James Lileks

The American Worker

Economy & Business

The American Worker: An Introduction

By Rich Lowry

Our authors sketch out a pro-worker agenda, which begins with a greater appreciation of Americans who don’t have four-year college degrees.

Education

College Does Not Make You a Better Person

By Charles C. W. Cooke

A lesson the Democrats have lately forgotten.

Economy & Business

The Return to Serfdom

By Joel Kotkin

Our egalitarian capitalist progress is fading, dangerously.

Immigration

Unskilled Immigration Lowers Labor-Force Participation

By Steven A. Camarota

Too many Americans are migrating out of the job market.

Culture

Restoring the Marriage Ecosystem

By David Lapp, Amber Lapp & W. Bradford Wilcox

Social trust is its oxygen.

Economy & Business

The Next Union Era

By Eli Lehrer

Cutting government mandates could help unions better serve workers.

Economy & Business

Higher Productivity Is Good for Workers

By Robert D. Atkinson

Automation notwithstanding.

Education

What Is the Purpose of High School?

By Ramesh Ponnuru

To prepare students for adulthood, not necessarily for college.

Education

The Case for More Occupational Training

By Robert Cherry

And fewer degrees.

Elections

How Republicans Can Appeal to the White Working Class

By Jay Cost

Historically, it has alternated in its partisan leaning.

Economy & Business

The Trump Economy

By Robert VerBruggen

There’s a lot for him to take credit for.

Economy & Business

A UBI Would Undermine Work

By Matthew Continetti

Gains from employment are not just material.

Economy & Business

Worker Skills to Pay the Bills

By Kevin D. Williamson

Conference rooms and spreadsheets do not a good job make.

Books, Arts & Manners

Books

The Exhilarating Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

By Michael Dirda

A review of Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Edward M. Burns.

Books

How to Protect Relationships in the Trump Era

By Emily Esfahani Smith

A review of I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World, by Jeanne Safer.

Country Life

Return of the Bats

By Richard Brookhiser

Let us not forget to watch the bats.

Film & TV

Midsommar Casts a Transfixing Scandinavian Spell

By Ross Douthat

A review of the film Midsommar.

Sections

Letters

By NR Editors

A reader writes in regarding Charles C. W. Cooke’s ‘The Post-Liberals’ Incoherence.’

The Week

By NR Editors

Robert Mueller seems as tired of talking about the Mueller report as the rest of us.

Athwart

President Judge Judy

By James Lileks

Some days I wish we got President Judge Judy. Eyeroll, gavel banged: Case dismissed.

The Long View

That’s My Husbro: Ilhan Omar’s Family Drama

By Rob Long

Ilhan bustles in from the kitchen carrying a tray of cookies…

Poetry

August

By Jessica Hornik

Sighing as I go, exhaling summer’s heat — I’m done.

Happy Warrior

Be Yourself, the Screen Commanded

By Heather Wilhelm

Healthy human interaction depends upon gives and takes paired with mutual respect and consideration.

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