IN THE October 19, 2020, ISSUE The District of Columbia Should Not Be a State By Dan McLaughlin Nor should its area be reduced in order to create one.
Justice Barrett Would Extend Scalia’s Legacy Justice Barrett Would Extend Scalia’s Legacy By Ed Whelan
Law & the Courts Justice Barrett Would Extend Scalia’s Legacy By Ed Whelan A look at the nominee’s record.
Immigration Trump’s Immigration Record By Mark Krikorian Mexico hasn’t paid for a wall, but there has been progress.
PC Culture Thomas Jefferson High School Wants Fewer Asians By Rong Xiaoqing The plan for diversity will devalue merit and disadvantage one main group.
National Security & Defense ‘Falsehood Flies, and Truth Comes Limping After It’ By Jay Nordlinger On Russian disinformation.
Economy & Business Beer-Drinkers and Tax-Raisers By Kevin D. Williamson A tariff on aluminum imports has cost U.S. brewers dearly.
Politics & Policy The District of Columbia Should Not Be a State By Dan McLaughlin Nor should its area be reduced in order to create one.
Elections Voting for Life By Ramesh Ponnuru & Robert P. George To grasp the grave injustice of abortion is to take on some responsibility to work to end it.
Culture The Sex That Ruins Everything By Madeleine Kearns Young women of 2020 have inherited a world in which seduction is indistinguishable from coercion.
Books Saudi Arabia & Its Ruthless Quest for Global Power By David Pryce-Jones A review of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power, by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck.
Books Transgender Craze Harms Young Women Especially By Madeleine Kearns A review of The End of Gender, by Debra Soh, and Irreversible Damage, by Abigail Shrier.
Books Overregulation & Administrative Law Amount to Government by the Unelected By Dan McLaughlin A review of The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite Is Governing America, by James R. Copland.
Garner the Grammarian A New Socratic Dialogue: Part 2 of 3 By Bryan A. Garner Is our educational system impoverished by the lack of instruction in grammar? I set forth opposing views in the form of a dialogue.
Film & TV Mulan: Shilling for the Bad Guys By Ross Douthat You should not pay to watch this Disney blockbuster for several reasons.
The Week The Week By NR Editors It turns out that the Democrats don’t fear that women will be put into red robes but that they will be put into black ones.
Athwart The Bourgeois Bath By James Lileks At this point you could get on NPR by publishing a book on rejecting modern toilets in favor of defecating in one’s pants.
The Long View ‘The Bidens’ By Rob Long Vice President Kamala Harris exits. Dr. Jill Biden takes out her phone.
Happy Warrior Fantastic Fibs and Where to Find Them By Heather Wilhelm As they say in The Handmaid’s Tale, praise be.