IN THE October 5, 2020, ISSUE Blue Today, Bluer Tomorrow By Joel Kotkin How progressive policies have let down the working class and minorities.
Tenet Has to Be Studied and Viewed Multiple Times to Be Understood Tenet Has to Be Studied and Viewed Multiple Times to Be Understood By Ross Douthat
Energy & Environment The Heart of California’s Darkness By Kevin D. Williamson Policy, not just fire, has contributed to the blackouts.
U.S. Blue Today, Bluer Tomorrow By Joel Kotkin How progressive policies have let down the working class and minorities.
Politics & Policy In Defense of Proceduralism By Andy Smarick What today’s post-liberals risk losing.
History The Mystery of Robert E. Lee By Allen C. Guelzo He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.
Education Welcome to Virtual Kindergarten By Robert VerBruggen COVID-19 makes the case for school choice.
Education Don’t Fix Colleges; Build Them By Frederick M. Hess Higher-education reform should be an entrepreneurial affair.
Education Against the 1619 Curriculum By Stanley Kurtz Choice and local control remain the best defenses.
Education Thank You, Mr. Hartwig By John J. Miller Remembering a high-school journalism teacher who made a difference.
Books Genetics Affect Intelligence: Confronting the Consequences, from the Left By Robert VerBruggen A review of The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice, by Fredrik deBoer.
Books Antonin Scalia’s Literary Excellence and Legacy of Originalism By William H. Pryor Jr. A review of The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law, edited by Jeffrey S. Sutton and Edward Whelan.
Books Rod Dreher’s Advice for Christians in a Secular Age By James E. Person Jr. A review of Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, by Rod Dreher.
Theater Hamlet and Oedipus Meet the Zombies By David Mamet Insistence on art as indoctrination is obscenity, denying the possibility of human connection to truths superior to human understanding, that is, to God.
City Desk One Gate to the City By Richard Brookhiser I have been spoiled in my commutes, but since the virus came among us, my commutes have grown longer.
Film & TV Tenet Has to Be Studied and Viewed Multiple Times to Be Understood By Ross Douthat A lot of critics seem to have enjoyed Tenet by just downplaying its incomprehensibility and treating it as a James Bond movie.
The Week The Week By NR Editors When Speaker Nancy Pelosi was photographed in a San Francisco hair salon, in violation of local lockdown rules, her defense was . . . interesting.
Athwart Raisin Ban By James Lileks And if those grapes are used for raisins that are put into cookies?
Happy Warrior The Sneetchification of America By Kyle Smith White people adopt blackness, black people adopt whiteness.