IN THE January 25, 2021, ISSUE Back to Opposition By Ramesh Ponnuru Republicans need to offer alternatives, not just resistance, in the Biden era.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech By Daniel Tenreiro
Politics & Policy Back to Opposition By Ramesh Ponnuru Republicans need to offer alternatives, not just resistance, in the Biden era.
National Security & Defense JCPOA 2.0 By John R. Bolton & John Yoo A nuclear agreement with Iran must undergo the Constitution’s treaty process.
White House Joe Biden’s Two Left Wings By Kevin D. Williamson Everything about the Democrats’ politics is pushing our president-elect the wrong way.
Energy & Environment Trump’s Environmental Progress By Mario Loyola Biden should build on his predecessor’s deregulatory reforms.
Politics & Policy Repeal the Pardon Power By Andrew C. McCarthy It’s too politicized, and there are better remedies for occasional injustices.
World Poland: Where the Disabled Have a Right to Be Born By Madeleine Kearns The nation’s high court prohibits allegedly utilitarian eugenic abortion.
Science & Tech How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech By Daniel Tenreiro Not all monopolies harm consumers.
U.S. The Case for American Optimism By Joel Kotkin As policy-makers debate, people are creating their own new nation.
Books A Portrait of Washington’s Greatness—and His Limitations By Michael Knox Beran A review of First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington, by Peter R. Henriques.
Books Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill and the Costs of Inhuman Political Ideologies By Theodore Kupfer A review of Red Pill, by Hari Kunzru.
Books Humankind’s Superficial History of Humanity By Oliver Wiseman A review of Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman.
Books John Berryman’s Letters Reveal a Confounding Catholic Faith By Nick Ripatrazone A review of The Selected Letters of John Berryman, edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae.
Country Life The Clean Sweep By Richard Brookhiser Revolutions can exchange specific ills for real improvements, but never without expenditure of treasure, blood, and occasional old goods lost in the shuffle.
Magazine Soul’s New Age Spirituality By Ross Douthat If that’s how we all go out, then it’s hard to blame our hero for making a beeline back to his mortal body.
The Week The Week By NR Editors Republicans put up two weak candidates in a competitive state, and then discouraged their voters from showing up.
Athwart The Great Reset By James Lileks Lunatic paranoids think it means a lizard in the shape of Bill Gates is going to microchip everyone with a vaccine so we can be tracked.
The Long View ASAP!! By Rob Long Senator, please review this and note changes, thanks — fundraising letter needs to drop tomorrow PM!!!!
Poetry Some Doggerel Concerning the Quaker Epiphany Party By Sarah Ruden Peter the corgi wouldn’t rest…
Happy Warrior Twenty Twenty Hindsight By Heather Wilhelm If you watched the ball drop, you know what came next: tragicomic disillusionment.