IN THE May 18, 2020, ISSUE
Why We Must Teach Western Civilization
The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
COVID-19 Is Not the Flu
Experience has shown that the coronavirus is much more dangerous.
What Will—and Won’t—COVID-19 Change about Our Politics?
A look ahead at the infection election.
COVID Closes the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
An appreciation of New York’s endangered improv-comedy scene.
Features
Why We Must Teach Western Civilization
The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred.
Books, Arts & Manners
The Contradiction at the Heart of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light
A review of The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel.
Is Administrative Law Immoral?
A review of The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law, by Richard A. Epstein.
When Schools Stopped Teaching Standard English
Many speakers of English are now doomed to the dialect into which they were born.
Sections
Masque of the Red Death
For some peculiar reason, every website I visit has ads for face masks.
RE: Weird Thing Today
Coming in this A.M. to the lab I did the regular check with the test rats, but the count came up short.
Last Day at Venice Beach
Dolphins stitch along the republic, for which they swim beyond the rock…
