IN THE November 30, 2020, ISSUE The Democrats’ Shortfalls in Congressional Elections By John McCormack In the House and the Senate, the blue wave did not go as planned.
History President-as-Leader or President-as-Partisan? By Richard Brookhiser A historical perspective.
Politics & Policy Trump as Populist-Nationalist By Michael Brendan Dougherty His legacy is a mixed bag.
Elections Joe Biden: As Small as the Moment Demanded By Dan McLaughlin No new American president in living memory has won election by offering so little of himself and his agenda to the public.
Politics & Policy Schumer and Pelosi Are Bourbon Democrats By Matthew Continetti They won’t be able to suppress their party’s social-justice Jacobins forever.
Politics & Policy Dan Lipinski and the Decline of Pro-Life Democrats By John J. Miller His House defeat nearly completes his party’s purge of anti-abortion voices.
Elections The Democrats’ Shortfalls in Congressional Elections By John McCormack In the House and the Senate, the blue wave did not go as planned.
Elections The COVID Election By Yuval Levin Trump’s failure to lead exacted a political cost even if it did not cost him the election.
Elections Trump’s Black and Latino Voters By Mario Loyola He lost the election, but he has helped point the way to a big-tent GOP majority.
Elections Why Democrats Are Winning the Suburbs By Luke Thompson The party’s gains there are a matter of demography and political economy.
Politics & Policy The Democrats’ Texas Blues By Kevin D. Williamson Republicans remain safe in the Lone Star State.
White House The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Cultural Politics By Rich Lowry His policies, if not his personality, offer lessons to Republicans.
Economy & Business Debt, Deficits, and the Donald By Veronique de Rugy With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
Books China’s Useful Idiots By Jimmy Quinn A review of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World, by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg.
Books Friends and Letters By Alexandra DeSanctis A review of Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, by Gina Dalfonzo.
Books Pronouns Go Political By Joseph Epstein A review of What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She, by Dennis Baron.
Film & TV James Bond, in Literature & Cinema: A Retrospective By Peter Tonguette 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.
City Desk Voting: Ballots Past, Present, and Absent By Richard Brookhiser If we end up governed by cronies and relatives, it is because we put them there. Maybe we should have stood in line.
Letters Letters By NR Editors Readers react to commentary on the Supreme Court and the English language.
The Week The Week By NR Editors During the campaign, Democrats used the coronavirus pandemic as a cudgel against Trump and other Republicans.
Athwart Weird Science By James Lileks So what will Biden do about COVID? Well, we’re told he will listen to the Scientists.
The Long View Official Transcript: The Rachael Ray Show By Rob Long Please welcome former president Donald Trump!
Happy Warrior The Suicide of Expertise By David Harsanyi 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.