IN THE September 9, 2019, ISSUE What We Love about America: An Introduction By Rich Lowry At the end of summer, we wanted to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming.
U.S. What We Love about America: An Introduction By Rich Lowry At the end of summer, we wanted to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming.
U.S. Things Are Big in America By Jonah Goldberg America may be more than just an idea, but man, what an idea.
U.S. The Great American Road Trip By Heather Wilhelm As the writer S. C. Gwynne has pointed out, the American frontier didn’t end in California, but in the wild west of Texas.
U.S. On Visiting Civil War Battlefields By Alexandra DeSanctis It is grim to revisit a time when our nation was at war with itself. But it is good for us to remember what they did, and why.
U.S. America’s Abandoned Places By Michael Knox Beran Americans, nervous, aspiring, and perpetually in a hurry, have no patience with antiquity.
Economy & Business Everyday Americans: Unknown Unknowns By Mark Helprin As I’ve aged, I’ve come to think that landscape is less an emblem of America than are its admirable and unsung people.
U.S. The American Middle Class By Victor Davis Hanson Elites may mock the middle class in its culture and tastes, but usually the middle class has had the last laugh.
Culture Envy and American Art By Brian T. Allen Our identity as citizens, as Americans, draws from notions of freedom the way a tree draws water.
U.S. American Men By Sarah Ruden American men — with few exceptions — treat you like a human being, in a free, natural way, because they’ve done it from the nation’s youth.
World The Ancestral Diversity of Americans By Orson Scott Card Wherever you are in the world, you have kinfolk, however distantly related, in America.
U.S. A Certain Brashness By Jay Nordlinger At naturalization ceremonies, the presiding officer says ‘You are now just as American as descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims.’
U.S. Readers Who Have Surprised Me By Joseph Epstein After some 80 years roaming among the American people, I continue to be delighted, every so often blown away, by them.
National Security & Defense My Husband’s Deployment By Nikki Haley Those we loved the most were going overseas to preserve what makes us free, because it won’t preserve itself.
U.S. Washington, D.C.: My Boyhood Olympus By Lance Morrow America’s capital is simultaneously corrupt, yet sacred — a rascally and fallible and enchanted place.
U.S. Mount Vernon By Myron Magnet George Washington created something between a manor and a farmhouse, an abode for a republican citizen.
U.S. Memories of Maine By Michael Brendan Dougherty The coast of Maine seems fully and productively absorbed not by some national debate or controversy but by its own business.
Religion Fifth Avenue, New York City By Kathryn Jean Lopez The avenue has stories to tell — and you don’t need a guidebook to realize that.
U.S. Las Vegas: The Allure of the Ersatz By Kevin D. Williamson Las Vegas is a terrible place to visit, but it is a great place to live.
Sports Why Football Is Great By Kyle Smith Scary strength and breathtaking ingenuity: That’s football, that’s America.
Sports Baseball Plays at the Plate By Stephen Hunter Homers are spectacle, double plays usually snappy and brisk, but the play at the plate is something else altogether.
Film & TV Western Movies By Terry Teachout A country without such larger-than-life legends is a land without a soul.
Music Irving Berlin By John Podhoretz Everything flowed into the American song through Berlin, creating a great melting pot of melody.
Music Motown By John J. Miller Forget all of the recent Woodstock nostalgia: The Motown sound dominated a decade.
Music Louis Armstrong’s ‘When You’re Smiling’ By Richard Brookhiser Louis Armstrong’s recording of ‘When You’re Smiling’ is the all-American song.
Music The American Songbook By Heather Mac Donald This supreme expression of American confidence and creativity seemed to come out of nowhere.
Film & TV Why I Love Superhero Movies By David French Superhero movies are the McDonald’s of American arts, and everyone loves McDonald’s.
Culture American Desserts By Megan McArdle You can learn more about America by eating some of our unique creations than you can in a year of history class.
Culture The Summer Ice-Cream Stand By Katherine Howell The Italians have gelato; Americans, at least in the corner of New England where I grew up, have the summer ice-cream stand.
Culture In Praise of Free Refills By Rob Long In the real-life dimensions of diners and fast-food places and hunger and thirst, America is a spectacularly generous place.
Culture American Dive Bars By Charles C. W. Cooke The dive bar is to the United States what the pub is to England.
Books The Cold War of Words By David Pryce-Jones A review of Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White.
Books The Not-So-Enigmatic Clarence Thomas By Theodore Kupfer A review of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin.
Books Louisa May Alcott: A Writer for All Ages By Sarah Schutte A discussion of the great American author, Louisa May Alcott.
Film & TV The Farewell: A Restrained Deathbed Drama By Ross Douthat A review of the film The Farewell.
Athwart For Whom the Ringtone Tolls By James Lileks There’s a crackdown coming on robocalls, and it can’t come soon enough.
The Long View From the Adventures of Donald J. Trump, Private Detective By Rob Long Chapter Six: A Tweet before Dying
Happy Warrior Orlando Magic By Kyle Smith The author takes his kids to the Simpsons ride in Universal Orlando.