IN THE November 2, 2020, ISSUE Joe Biden’s Cult of No Personality By Kevin D. Williamson He is not Donald Trump, and he wants you to know it.
The Narcissism of Small Political Differences The Narcissism of Small Political Differences By Daniel Foster
Elections Joe Biden’s Cult of No Personality By Kevin D. Williamson He is not Donald Trump, and he wants you to know it.
Elections On Accepting Defeat By Dan McLaughlin A crucial political virtue, from John Adams to the present.
Elections Will Trump Win Pennsylvania? By Jim Geraghty Voter-registration numbers indicate his standing.
Elections Joni Ernst Fights to Keep Her Seat By John McCormack The junior senator from Iowa faces a challenger with a similar background.
National Security & Defense Biden’s Foreign-Policy Folly By Michael Brendan Dougherty He has been wrong about everything.
Energy & Environment The Green New Deal Is Awful but Unlikely By Benjamin Zycher Even a Democratic Congress will want to reject it.
Elections Against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act By Hans A. von Spakovsky There is no ‘epidemic’ of voter suppression.
White House The Trump Years: Terribly Tremendous By Rob Long His presidency might look good in retrospect.
Books H. R. McMaster in New Book: U.S. Must Know Both Its Enemies & Itself By Matthew Kroenig A review of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, by H. R. McMaster.
Books Love the Past: Alan Jacobs in New Book on the Value of Reading the Classics By Tracy Lee Simmons A review of Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, by Alan Jacobs.
Books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life & Loves in a Moving New Biography By Brian T. Allen A review of Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Culture Ray Bradbury: What He Foresaw By Peter Tonguette With its twin visions of a pastoral past and a sterile, anti-culture future, Bradbury’s work remains timely a century after his birth.
City Desk Remember Books—Reading On-Screen Is Not the Same By Richard Brookhiser 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.
Film & TV Forty-Year-Old Version: Co-opted Rebellion By Ross Douthat 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.
Letters Letters By NR Editors Readers react to commentary on California’s blackouts and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The Week The Week By NR Editors At an event in Miami, Biden asserted that if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, “she may very well move to overrule Roe.”
Athwart Choose Your Own Election By James Lileks Just grab a pen and cross out the words and sentences that don’t apply.
The Long View United States Supreme Court Notification of Service By Rob Long Welcome! Your name has been chosen from a random selection of registered voters in your division to serve as SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
Happy Warrior The Narcissism of Small Political Differences By Daniel Foster Here’s what I learned about living with neat freaks.