IN THE March 23, 2020, ISSUE Mike Bloomberg, Nanny-State Napoleon By Kyle Smith He proves money doesn’t buy you love.
Elections Negligible ‘Never Bernie’ By Kevin D. Williamson Sanders and the Democrats are birds of a feather.
World The World’s Reaction to the Wuhan Coronavirus By Victor Davis Hanson Plagues and panics, ancient and modern.
World India as Counterweight to China in Asia By Daniel Tenreiro The importance of Washington’s relationship with New Delhi.
Politics & Policy The Next Coalition of the Right By Ramesh Ponnuru & Yuval Levin Some lessons of reform conservatism.
National Security & Defense End the FISA By Andrew C. McCarthy It’s an unconstitutional mess that weakens national security and threatens civil liberties.
Science & Tech Our Technological Renaissance By Charles C. W. Cooke Claims of stagnation are not persuasive.
Science & Tech Dime-Store Genomics By Razib Khan Genetic testing will soon be cheap, routine, and ubiquitous.
Science & Tech Innovation and ‘New Energy’ By Mark P. Mills Batteries are great, but we still need petroleum.
Books Our Comfortable Decadence By Aaron Sibarium A review of The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, by Ross Douthat.
Books George Orwell’s Unclassifiable Politics By John J. Miller A review of Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy, by John Rodden.
Books 40 Years Later, the ‘Miracle on Ice’ Still Thrills Us By Rich Lowry A review of The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal–Winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, by Mike Eruzione.
Books Oscar Charleston: Baseball History’s Invisible Man By Nicholas Frankovich A review of Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player, by Jeremy Beer.
Film & TV The Invisible Man and the Secret to Elisabeth Moss’s Stardom By Ross Douthat Watching Moss’s character move from terror to relief to greater terror, and then fight back, you can see what made her an icon on TV.
The Week The Week By NR Editors Coronavirus, the Sanders campaign—these epidemics are never as bad as they seem.
Athwart The Apolitical Purchase By James Lileks Everyone should shop for major appliances now and then, just to leave behind our fractious political cacophony.
The Long View Hillarypod! 3/24/20 By Rob Long From high atop the HillaryDome, in a pantsuit made entirely out of right-wing tears, it’s the Hiiiiillllllllarrrrry Cllllllinnntonnnn Podcast!
Happy Warrior Back to the USSR By David Harsanyi The way we treat Bernie, as a crank or well-meaning left-winger, is itself a way to normalize Marxism.