IN THE April 6, 2020, ISSUE Washington’s Response to the Coronavirus By Yuval Levin The best solutions are not always coordinated from above.
The Pro-Life Movement You’ve Never Heard Of The Pro-Life Movement You’ve Never Heard Of By Alexandra DeSanctis
White House Washington’s Response to the Coronavirus By Yuval Levin The best solutions are not always coordinated from above.
World Fear and Extravagance in a Plague By Michael Brendan Dougherty Some similarities across the ages.
Economy & Business The Coronavirus Blizzard By Kevin D. Williamson An epidemic is like a storm in more than the metaphorical sense.
World Coronavirus and China’s Missing Citizen Journalists By Helen Raleigh They were detained for telling the truth about the coronavirus.
Elections Why Biden Bounced Back By Ramesh Ponnuru As with Trump, primary voters preferred the candidate in the center.
Politics & Policy Senator Booker Is Right about Factory Farming By Spencer Case We should pass legislation to end it.
U.S. The Pro-Life Movement You’ve Never Heard Of By Alexandra DeSanctis It’s not just white Christian conservatives.
World Why Iran Won’t Make Another Nuclear Deal By Ray Takeyh Its political and scientific leaders no longer wish to offer concessions.
World Vladimir Putin’s Encirclement of Europe By Jakub Grygiel ‘Strategic autonomy’ will be insufficient to the challenge.
Books George Washington’s Twilight Years By Michael F. Bishop A review of Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle, by Jonathan Horn.
Books The Blind Spots of the ‘Bootstraps’ Debate By Madeleine Kearns A review of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Books Apartment: A Novel of Class-Based Anxieties By Stefan Beck A review of Apartment, by Teddy Wayne.
Books Can Well-Designed Experiments Make the Case for Government Intervention? By Laura Ball A review of Good Economics for Hard Times, by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
City Desk Bureaucracy’s Gentle Yoke By Richard Brookhiser Times have changed: The traffic flow and the mores of the DMV have undergone improvement. But in a city of 8 million, choke points remain.
Letters Letters By NR Editors A reader responds to Madeleine Kearns’s article, ‘Pornography Is a Public-Health Problem.’
The Week The Week By NR Editors Broadway is closed. Social conservatives just keep getting wins in the Trump era.
The Long View The Kellyanne Conway Show, Season 3, Episode 15: ‘Lockdown’ By Rob Long At the sofa, Kellyanne sits with an N95 Respirator mask on her face.
Athwart Bagel Before You Go? By James Lileks The fact that we create bagels is almost a miracle, as far as we know; anyone else out there?
Poetry Thermopylae By C. P. Cavafy Honor to those who dedicate their lives, to guarding their Thermopylae…