IN THE April 5, 2021, ISSUE America Is Petroleum-Independent, for Now By Nicholas Eberstadt, Derek Scissors & Evan Abramsky Team Biden should not sacrifice these gains in a headlong rush toward an ambitious green agenda.
Politics & Policy Keep the Senate Filibuster By David Harsanyi It’s a vital check on majoritarian excess.
Culture Meghan and Harry’s Royal Nonsense By Madeleine Kearns With dubious accusations of racial bias, the Sussexes take aim at the British monarchy.
World The Case of Abiy Ahmed By Jay Nordlinger Ethiopia’s prime minister, a Nobel peace laureate, presides over a savage civil war.
History Charles Curtis, Forgotten Veep By John J. Miller Herbert Hoover’s vice president blazed an early trail for racial inclusion.
Energy & Environment America Is Petroleum-Independent, for Now By Nicholas Eberstadt, Derek Scissors & Evan Abramsky Team Biden should not sacrifice these gains in a headlong rush toward an ambitious green agenda.
Politics & Policy For the Children By Michael Brendan Dougherty Conservative policy-makers turn their attention to declining fertility rates.
Politics & Policy Time to Move On from COVID Capitalism By Kevin D. Williamson Of crisis and bad policy.
Books The Shah’s Undoing By David Pryce-Jones A review of The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty, by Ray Takeyh.
Books Mikhail Bakhtin: Philosopher of Dialogue By Gary Saul Morson A review of Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova, translated by Margarita Marinova.
Books The Nazis’ War on a Vagrant Language By Howard Schneider A review of The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate, by Martin Puchner.
Theater Real Live By David Mamet The magnificence of the theatrical interchange is that it cannot be captured. You had to be there.
Garner the Grammarian Our Changing Words: Part II of a Two-Part Series By Bryan A. Garner Many people see the overthrow of customary usage with consternation or even indignation.
Film & TV Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon Banishes Romance and Villainy By Ross Douthat With the release of this new film, we can say that the third era of Disney has established a new template.
The Week The Week By NR Editors The company that oversees Dr. Seuss’s estate announced that it would no longer license six titles from his oeuvre of more than 60 children’s books.
Athwart Rebel without a Mask By James Lileks The second after I’m vaccinated, I’m burning my mask. Okay, three seconds. Give me time to take it off first.
The Long View Official Transcript: The Oprah Winfrey Interview, Page 3 By Rob Long Wait, wait. They said this to you?
Happy Warrior A Nation of Sinners By Tim Kelleher It seems sin is back in, and for now we’re all Hester Prynne.