IN THE May 3, 2021, ISSUE Stacey Abrams, Fount of Disinformation By Rich Lowry She says there’s a new Jim Crow. Here’s the truth.
Economy & Business Infrastructure in Theory and in Practice By Kevin D. Williamson Broadband isn’t the new railroad.
Economy & Business Stone Age Anti-capitalism By Marian L. Tupy Our hunter-gatherer past helps explain opposition to free markets.
Education Private Schools Will Not Save Children from Indoctrination By Graham Hillard But parental vigilance might.
Elections Stacey Abrams, Fount of Disinformation By Rich Lowry She says there’s a new Jim Crow. Here’s the truth.
Science & Tech America’s Microchip Slip By Oren Cass & Richard Oyeniran How to retake the lead in the great semiconductor race.
World China’s Moral Disfigurement By Perry Link The Communist Party has attacked, but not destroyed, the nation’s traditional ethics.
Books The Bloody Fate of Julius Caesar’s Killers By Joseph Epstein A review of The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar, by Peter Stothard.
Books A Path to Faith By Alexandra DeSanctis A review of Walk with Me: An Invitation to Faith, by Neal B. Freeman.
Music Setting the Tone: Great TV Theme Music By Jay Nordlinger TV is a personal thing, and so is music.
Garner the Grammarian Of Husbands, Wives, and Hypernyms By Bryan A. Garner Some of the needed transformations can surprise.
Film & TV Nobody’s Almost Normal Action Hero By Ross Douthat All that distinguishes Nobody from its action peers is the sheer emptiness of its violence.
Athwart Fontasia By James Lileks When I saw the chop-suey font in the CNN story I was reminded of a powdered-drink product from my youth: Funny Face.
The Long View From Lives of the Saints: The New Class By Rob Long An account of Saint Anthony Fauci of the Perpetual Distance.
Poetry The Commonwealth By Daniel Ratelle They burned the house and searched the coals for nails . . .
Happy Warrior Canceled by the Jackals By Daniel Foster Our press’s self-regard has grown inversely to the regard others have for it.