IN THE September 30, 2019, ISSUE Do Guns Help People Defend Themselves? By Robert VerBruggen Yes, probably hundreds of thousands of times each year.
Immigration What’s Next for the GOP on Immigration? By Ramesh Ponnuru Trump missed his best chance for an immigration deal, but Republicans still need to know what they want.
Energy & Environment The New Endangered-Species Regulations Are Good for Species By Shawn Regan The old rules created a perverse incentive not to preserve habitat.
Law & the Courts The Anti-Slavery Constitution By Timothy Sandefur From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.
World Russia’s Middle East Power Play By Vance Serchuk Or, what Putin learned from Nixon and Kissinger.
Politics & Policy Do Guns Help People Defend Themselves? By Robert VerBruggen Yes, probably hundreds of thousands of times each year.
Law & the Courts The Lawfare Campaign against Gunmakers By Kevin D. Williamson Manufacturers of firearms should not be sued when people commit crimes with their products.
Law & the Courts Heller’s Precarious Situation By David B. Kopel Many courts are failing to uphold the Second Amendment.
Politics & Policy To Build an AR-15 By Charles C. W. Cooke On getting to know the rifle of endless possibilities.
Culture Theodore Roosevelt on the Range By Declan Leary Books, a rifle, a future president, and a prairie already bounded.
Books The Eternal Debate over the Nature of Hell By Nicholas Frankovich A review of That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, by David Bentley Hart.
Books Walter Bagehot: The Great Victorian Journalist By Matthew Continetti A review of Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, by James Grant.
Books The Art of Punctuation By Joseph Epstein A review of Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, by Cecelia Watson.
Books C. S. Lewis and the Religion of Science By Christopher O. Blum A review of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case against Scientism, 3rd ed., by Michael D. Aeschliman.
Books Reading Like a Child By Sarah Ruden The rewards of approaching literature with a sense of our relative smallness.
Film & TV Horror-Comedy Ready or Not Plays on Primal Human Fears By Ross Douthat A review of Ready or Not, starring Samara Weaving.
The Long View FIREDCON 2019! By Rob Long A three-day convention for terminated employees of the Trump administration.
Poetry If I Were Present at the Tribal Blessing By Jennifer Reeser Had I been present when those pastors blessed the Tahlequah tribe, my sister by my side…
Happy Warrior Criminal Charisma By David Harsanyi ‘You’re watching The Godfather? Again?‘ ‘Yes, again,’ I respond to my wife. ‘Also, don’t ask me about my business.’