IN THE October 14, 2019, ISSUE
Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee from Outer Space
Conservative; liberal; white; Cherokee; Harvard prof; tribune of the people; possibly extraterrestrial.
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Articles
Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee from Outer Space
Conservative; liberal; white; Cherokee; Harvard prof; tribune of the people; possibly extraterrestrial.
Elizabeth Warren’s Entitlement Plans Are Money for Nothing
Expensive policies with no rationale.
Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth-Tax Trap
A tax on wealth would be economically destructive, fiscally ineffective, and possibly unconstitutional.
Elizabeth Warren’s Bad Student-Debt Plan
It’s too costly and would create a moral hazard, when there are better alternatives.
Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong on Fracking
She ignores environmental as well as fiscal realities.
Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Corruption Proposal Would Silence Dissent
Free speech protects advocacy groups, not just individuals ranting on street corners.
Books, Arts & Manners
Unraveling the Origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation
A review of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency, by Andrew C. McCarthy.
The War-Time Diaries of Miksa Fenyő: A Little-Known Masterpiece
A review of A Nation Adrift: The 1944–1945 Wartime Diaries of Miksa Fenyő, translated by Mario D. Fenyő.
Was James Buchanan Gay?
A review of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, by Thomas J. Balcerski.
The Turbulent Life of the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed
A review of The Life of Lou Reed: Notes from the Velvet Underground, by Howard Sounes.
Zadie Smith’s New Short-Story Collection Dazzles and Disappoints
A review of Grand Union: Stories, by Zadie Smith.
Sections
The Children’s Crusade
We do not wish to take orders from dour children whose Save the Earth poster occupies a space that had pictures of Pokémon two years ago.
Notes from the Class of 1987
See you all at the reunion! Gonna be a fun one! Boola boola!
The Third Rail
It intimidates without apparent threat, not looking live or lethal, rough with rust...
It Came Out of the Sky
The United States Navy has basically admitted that UFOs are real. Here’s the weird: Very few people seem to care.