IN THE April 20, 2020, ISSUE The Social Costs of COVID-19 By Matthew Continetti They’re apt to be long-lasting, hard to measure, and heavy.
New York City in Crisis, from the Revolution to the Coronavirus New York City in Crisis, from the Revolution to the Coronavirus By Richard Brookhiser
History New York City in Crisis, from the Revolution to the Coronavirus By Richard Brookhiser A history of perilous times.
World Coronavirus: The View from Paris By Anthony Daniels A doctor, stuck in his flat, considers our situation.
Politics & Policy Coercion and the Coronavirus By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey The immoral equivalent of war.
Culture The Social Costs of COVID-19 By Matthew Continetti They’re apt to be long-lasting, hard to measure, and heavy.
Politics & Policy ‘A Disease Spread by the Rich’ By Kevin D. Williamson International travel and the coronavirus.
Economy & Business The Fed and the Virus By Ramesh Ponnuru It can best help the economy by preparing for recovery.
National Security & Defense Restore America’s Commercial Sea Power By Christopher R. O'Dea Now is the time to secure naval dominance over China.
Politics & Policy The Crisis Congress By Yuval Levin & Adam J. White What is the legislature’s job in a national emergency?
Sports Time to Pass without Our Pastime By Michael Brendan Dougherty Life without baseball and other sports.
Culture The Great Coronavirus Non-Freakout By Rob Long Americans were ready, by gadget and by character.
Books Conservatives and Geopolitical Change By A. Wess Mitchell A review of Metternich: Strategist and Visionary, by Wolfram Siemann.
History Whittaker Chambers through the Eyes of Rebecca West By Peter Baehr West understood more clearly than anyone the allure of Communism for educated Westerners.
Garner the Grammarian Perplexingly Pesky Pronouns By Bryan A. Garner 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.
Film & TV The Pleasures of Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. By Ross Douthat The movie heightens the costumed formality, the precise ritual, the almost absurd theater of the Georgian gentry.
Letters Letters By NR Editors A reader responds to Kevin Erdmann’s article, “The Unbuildable American Home.”
The Week The Week By NR Editors Trump has every right to boast about his TV ratings, but he really ought to give the virus some of the credit.
Athwart Navigating the Covidian Miasma By James Lileks If I’d known this was coming, I would have liquidated all my assets and buried them in the backyard.
Happy Warrior The Nintendo Solution By Heather Wilhelm I did something I swore I would never, ever do, shattering a promise I made to myself long ago.