IN THE November 30, 2020, ISSUE
The Democrats’ Shortfalls in Congressional Elections
In the House and the Senate, the blue wave did not go as planned.
Magazine
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Articles
Joe Biden: As Small as the Moment Demanded
No new American president in living memory has won election by offering so little of himself and his agenda to the public.
Schumer and Pelosi Are Bourbon Democrats
They won’t be able to suppress their party’s social-justice Jacobins forever.
Dan Lipinski and the Decline of Pro-Life Democrats
His House defeat nearly completes his party’s purge of anti-abortion voices.
The Democrats’ Shortfalls in Congressional Elections
In the House and the Senate, the blue wave did not go as planned.
The COVID Election
Trump’s failure to lead exacted a political cost even if it did not cost him the election.
Trump’s Black and Latino Voters
He lost the election, but he has helped point the way to a big-tent GOP majority.
Why Democrats Are Winning the Suburbs
The party's gains there are a matter of demography and political economy.
The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Cultural Politics
His policies, if not his personality, offer lessons to Republicans.
Books, Arts & Manners
China’s Useful Idiots
A review of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World, by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg.
Friends and Letters
A review of Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, by Gina Dalfonzo.
James Bond, in Literature & Cinema: A Retrospective
There has never been a Bond film that wasn’t at least moderately popular. What is it they say about 007? Nobody does it better.
Voting: Ballots Past, Present, and Absent
If we end up governed by cronies and relatives, it is because we put them there. Maybe we should have stood in line.
Sections
Weird Science
So what will Biden do about COVID? Well, we’re told he will listen to the Scientists.
Official Transcript: The Rachael Ray Show
Please welcome former president Donald Trump!
The Suicide of Expertise
The real crisis of Twitter isn’t that Americans confuse social media with the ‘real world.’ It’s that the people spouting off actually reside in the real world.