IN THE April 20, 2020, ISSUE
The Social Costs of COVID-19
They’re apt to be long-lasting, hard to measure, and heavy.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Coronavirus Issue
New York City in Crisis, from the Revolution to the Coronavirus
A history of perilous times.
Restore America’s Commercial Sea Power
Now is the time to secure naval dominance over China.
Books, Arts & Manners
Conservatives and Geopolitical Change
A review of Metternich: Strategist and Visionary, by Wolfram Siemann.
Whittaker Chambers through the Eyes of Rebecca West
West understood more clearly than anyone the allure of Communism for educated Westerners.
Perplexingly Pesky Pronouns
The problem that pronouns raise for speakers of English is that we don’t normally inflect noun elements to reflect their function in a sentence.
The Pleasures of Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.
The movie heightens the costumed formality, the precise ritual, the almost absurd theater of the Georgian gentry.
Sections
Navigating the Covidian Miasma
If I’d known this was coming, I would have liquidated all my assets and buried them in the backyard.
The Nintendo Solution
I did something I swore I would never, ever do, shattering a promise I made to myself long ago.