IN THE November 2, 2020, ISSUE
Joe Biden’s Cult of No Personality
He is not Donald Trump, and he wants you to know it.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Joni Ernst Fights to Keep Her Seat
The junior senator from Iowa faces a challenger with a similar background.
The Green New Deal Is Awful but Unlikely
Even a Democratic Congress will want to reject it.
Against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
There is no ‘epidemic’ of voter suppression.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
H. R. McMaster in New Book: U.S. Must Know Both Its Enemies & Itself
A review of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, by H. R. McMaster.
Love the Past: Alan Jacobs in New Book on the Value of Reading the Classics
A review of Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, by Alan Jacobs.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life & Loves in a Moving New Biography
A review of Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Ray Bradbury: What He Foresaw
With its twin visions of a pastoral past and a sterile, anti-culture future, Bradbury’s work remains timely a century after his birth.
Remember Books—Reading On-Screen Is Not the Same
Once I went from book to book, article to article. Now I hop from page to page, paragraph to paragraph; screen to screen, image to image.
Forty-Year-Old Version: Co-opted Rebellion
If I were laying odds for the little movie most likely to get attention in an if-it-happens Oscar race, this is a pretty good bet.
Sections
Choose Your Own Election
Just grab a pen and cross out the words and sentences that don’t apply.
United States Supreme Court Notification of Service
Welcome! Your name has been chosen from a random selection of registered voters in your division to serve as SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
The Narcissism of Small Political Differences
Here’s what I learned about living with neat freaks.