IN THE October 28, 2019, ISSUE The Brexit Knot By Douglas Murray Britain now faces a great political and constitutional crisis.
A Conversation with Justice Neil Gorsuch A Conversation with Justice Neil Gorsuch By Charles C. W. Cooke
Science & Tech Don’t Tax Robots (Yet) By Robert VerBruggen There’s a job apocalypse looming, but it won’t arrive for a bit.
World Looking Hard at the Afghan War By Jay Nordlinger A conversation with former ambassador Ryan Crocker.
PC Culture Defiant Dave Chappelle By Katherine Timpf In the face of critics bent on suppression, he tells it as he sees it.
World The Brexit Knot By Douglas Murray Britain now faces a great political and constitutional crisis.
Elections What Is Ben Sasse Thinking? By John McCormack The Nebraska senator who has clashed with Trump faces tough questions as he seeks reelection.
Law & the Courts A Conversation with Justice Neil Gorsuch By Charles C. W. Cooke ‘To take the slings and arrows.’
Economy & Business A Shale-Gas Revolution, If We Can Keep It By Mario Loyola The boom, fostered by markets, is now threatened by politics.
Energy & Environment The Trouble with ‘Renewable’ Energy By Benjamin Zycher Wind and solar are inefficient, and their environmental benefits are oversold.
Law & the Courts Steven Donziger and the Plot against Chevron By Jack Fowler The outtakes had a happier ending than the movie.
Science & Tech The Electric Grid in the Digital Age By Mark P. Mills Wind and solar will not be able to power it.
Energy & Environment Energy Means Food and Time By Alex Epstein And much else that spectacularly raises the human standard of living.
Books Meritocracy and Its Discontents By William Voegeli A review of The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, by Daniel Markovits.
Books Fraying Families and the Roots of Identity Politics By Rachel Lu A review of Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, by Mary Eberstadt.
Books Big Business Is Not the Enemy of the People By Robert D. Atkinson A review of Goliath: The 100-Year War between Monopoly Power and Democracy, by Matt Stoller.
Letters Letters By NR Editors Readers respond to National Review on immigration, Teddy Roosevelt, and salvation.
The Week The Week By NR Editors Rockets from Pyongyang are actually causing less trouble in Asia than the ones from Houston.
Athwart The Click of Doom By James Lileks Analyzing a comment from an L.A. politician on how smoothie enthusiasts could cope with the new plastic-straw ban.
Poetry Starlight By William W. Runyeon There is a fresh-as-the-first-spring-morning feeling that comes with a nightfall then…
Happy Warrior The Protean Superpower By Kyle Smith When you’re a dad, your dignity goes on the bonfire: You just let the world warm its hands by the flame.