IN THE March 23, 2020, ISSUE
Mike Bloomberg, Nanny-State Napoleon
He proves money doesn’t buy you love.
Magazine
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Articles
Features
End the FISA
It’s an unconstitutional mess that weakens national security and threatens civil liberties.
Technology
Books, Arts & Manners
Our Comfortable Decadence
A review of The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, by Ross Douthat.
George Orwell’s Unclassifiable Politics
A review of Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy, by John Rodden.
40 Years Later, the ‘Miracle on Ice’ Still Thrills Us
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.
Oscar Charleston: Baseball History’s Invisible Man
A review of Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player, by Jeremy Beer.
The Invisible Man and the Secret to Elisabeth Moss’s Stardom
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.
Sections
The Apolitical Purchase
Everyone should shop for major appliances now and then, just to leave behind our fractious political cacophony.
Hillarypod! 3/24/20
From high atop the HillaryDome, in a pantsuit made entirely out of right-wing tears, it’s the Hiiiiillllllllarrrrry Cllllllinnntonnnn Podcast!
Back to the USSR
The way we treat Bernie, as a crank or well-meaning left-winger, is itself a way to normalize Marxism.