IN THE September 21, 2020, ISSUE
Wrong-Way Biden
The policy choice in the presidential election is clear.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
The 9/11 Tribute in Light Emphasizes Bill de Blasio’s Failure
New York City’s mayor has divided it further after promising unity.
Features
Toward a Conservative Environmentalism
The new Roosevelt Caucus is a welcome addition to GOP politics.
Books, Arts & Manners
When the Silent Majority Rioted in New York City
A review of The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, by David Paul Kuhn.
The Sources of Stanley Kubrick’s Mystique
A review of Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, by David Mikics.
Keep It Together: Against the Left’s Secessionist Fantasies
A review of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union, by Richard Kreitner.
How to Think about Existential Threats
A review of The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays, by Elisa Gabbert.
A New Socratic Dialogue: Part 1 of 3
Is our educational system impoverished by the lack of instruction in grammar?
Da 5 Bloods: A Fitting Memorial to Chadwick Boseman’s Untimely Death
It’s a strange film, and in the shadow of death it plays mostly as a monument to might-have-beens.
Sections
Demonstration Nation
It’s odd how destruction seems the only means in which a group that says it wants change by any means shows any interest.
An American Tragedy
Many kids starting school this week live in a miracle. They just don’t know it anymore.