IN THE February 8, 2021, ISSUE Why Americans Adore Conspiracy Theories By Kevin D. Williamson For some men, fantasies are dearer than life.
What to Do about Social-Media Double Standards? What to Do about Social-Media Double Standards? By Charles C. W. Cooke
The Storming of the Capitol: An Eyewitness Account The Storming of the Capitol: An Eyewitness Account By John McCormack
Politics & Policy Against Conservative Civil War By Michael Brendan Dougherty Populists and establishmentarians need to learn from each other.
U.S. The Storming of the Capitol: An Eyewitness Account By John McCormack 2:18 p.m.: Our reporter barricades the door with a couch and some chairs . . .
Culture What to Do about Social-Media Double Standards? By Charles C. W. Cooke The culture, not Section 230, is our problem.
U.S. Why Americans Adore Conspiracy Theories By Kevin D. Williamson For some men, fantasies are dearer than life.
World How We Lose against China By Robert D. Kaplan Social media and internal political extremes could undermine the United States.
History Restoring the Conservative Conscience By Avik Roy Nineteenth-century liberals offer lessons for today.
Books Kevin Williamson’s Prescient Big White Ghetto By Daniel Foster A review of Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the ‘Real America,’ by Kevin D. Williamson.
Books Wagner: Master of Masters By Algis Valiunas A review of Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, by Alex Ross.
Books Conservatism’s Contested Tradition By Gerald J. Russello A review of Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, by Edmund Fawcett.
Garner the Grammarian A Grammarian Addresses Pandemics By Bryan A. Garner Exploring Noah Webster’s thoughts on plagues.
Film & TV Promising Young Woman’s Fantastical ‘Me Too’ Vigilantism By Ross Douthat Its caricature of sexual relations is so calculated, that you can’t really be all that frightened by the spirit that it represents.
The Week The Week By NR Editors America is choking in a cloud of noxious rhetoric. Why not stifle it?
Athwart C’mon, Zingerola! By James Lileks Before we roll over and submit, we need to figure out whether we’re dealing with purposeful malevolence or good ol’-fashioned human clusterbuggery.
The Long View From the Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Presidential Archives . . . By Rob Long A letter from Donald J. Trump.
Happy Warrior The Least Wonderful Time of the Year By Kyle Smith As punishment for my life choices, each awards season I get strafed with reminders that this or that film is being offered ‘for your consideration.’