IN THE May 18, 2020, ISSUE Why We Must Teach Western Civilization By Andrew Roberts The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred.
COVID Closes the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater COVID Closes the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Science & Tech COVID-19 Should Make Us Grateful for Technology By Marian L. Tupy Imagine a pre-modern pandemic.
Health Care COVID-19 Is Not the Flu By John McCormack Experience has shown that the coronavirus is much more dangerous.
Culture COVID-19 Is Not a Unique Hardship for Millennials By Charles C. W. Cooke No generation is spared exogenous shocks.
Elections What Will—and Won’t—COVID-19 Change about Our Politics? By Ramesh Ponnuru A look ahead at the infection election.
Education Harvard Law Takes Aim at Homeschooling By Kevin D. Williamson Or, the second coming of the Know Nothings.
Culture COVID Closes the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater By Michael Brendan Dougherty An appreciation of New York’s endangered improv-comedy scene.
Culture Why We Must Teach Western Civilization By Andrew Roberts The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred.
Books The Contradiction at the Heart of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light By Nicholas M. Gallagher A review of The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel.
Books Is Administrative Law Immoral? By Jonathan H. Adler A review of The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law, by Richard A. Epstein.
Books Woody Allen’s Witty, Meandering Memoir By Peter Tonguette A review of Apropos of Nothing, by Woody Allen.
Garner the Grammarian When Schools Stopped Teaching Standard English By Bryan A. Garner Many speakers of English are now doomed to the dialect into which they were born.
Letters Letters By NR Editors A reader responds to Bryan Garner’s article, “Perplexingly Pesky Pronouns.”
The Week The Week By NR Editors GDP shrank 5 percent in the first quarter. Who says government can’t get anything done if it sets its mind to it?
Athwart Masque of the Red Death By James Lileks For some peculiar reason, every website I visit has ads for face masks.
The Long View RE: Weird Thing Today By Rob Long Coming in this A.M. to the lab I did the regular check with the test rats, but the count came up short.
Poetry Last Day at Venice Beach By Rex Wilder Dolphins stitch along the republic, for which they swim beyond the rock…
Happy Warrior The Rare Virtue of Interior Spaciousness By David Harsanyi I finally decided to read Moby-Dick.