IN THE February 22, 2021, ISSUE Our Illiberal Moment By Charles C. W. Cooke The virtues that our political order requires are in decline.
Health Care COVID Cuomo By David Harsanyi New York’s governor made a deadly policy mistake and doesn’t want to talk about it.
Energy & Environment The Cost of Biden’s Ban on Oil and Gas Leasing By Shawn Regan Not drilling has economic and environmental consequences.
Politics & Policy The Emergent Urban Anti-progressivism By Ryan Streeter Looking at Trump’s electoral performance in big cities.
Health Care Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids By Sally Satel & Joel Zinberg It thwarts treatment for pain and makes the black market deadlier.
Politics & Policy Our Illiberal Moment By Charles C. W. Cooke The virtues that our political order requires are in decline.
Books Obama’s Memoir: Appraising a Presidency By Mona Charen A review of A Promised Land, by Barack Obama.
Books A Guide to Artificial Intelligence By Jay Nordlinger A review of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going, by Michael Wooldridge.
Books Ravenna: Jewel Amid the Ruins of Empire By Brian T. Allen A review of Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe, by Judith Herrin.
Books The Arab Winter’s Slow Thaw By Michael M. Rosen A review of The Arab Winter: A Tragedy, by Noah Feldman.
Country Life Sign Language By Richard Brookhiser Politics is also the new patriotism, which must be why so many American flags seem wrongly hung.
Film & TV The Little Things: An Old-School Whodunit By Ross Douthat It toys reasonably effectively with the expectations set by all those predecessors.
The Week The Week By NR Editors A San Francisco school board has voted to rename 44 schools the names of which are associated with ‘dishonorable legacies.’
Athwart Anachronism on 34th Street By James Lileks The office skyscraper was a unique American art form, an expression of strength, ingenuity, beauty, and faith in the future.
The Long View In the United States District Court for the District of New York By Rob Long Louis Farrakhan, Rosie O’Donnell, Tom Cruise, et al. v. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Happy Warrior Laser Focus By Daniel Foster It ought to be a straightforward thing for elected Republicans to reject Marjorie Taylor Greene’s repugnant claims.