IN THE November 1, 2021, ISSUE
Life after Capitalism
We live in a new twilight zone beyond capitalism and freedom.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
Lars Vilks, Lonely Hero of the ‘Cartoon Wars’
For drawing Mohammed, he and others were attacked and mostly abandoned.
The Anti-Anti-China Left
Worries about racism are prompting tolerance of a totalitarian government.
Leopoldo, Free
A conversation with Leopoldo López, the Venezuelan democracy leader and former political prisoner.
Features
Life after Capitalism
We live in a new twilight zone beyond capitalism and freedom.
Why China Is Winning the War for High Tech
It funds development of the technologies that will dominate the world.
Books, Arts & Manners
The Limits of Corporate Feminism
A review of Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity, by Claudia Goldin.
The Uses of Profanity
A review of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever, by John McWhorter.
In Defense of Citizenship
A review of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America, by Victor Davis Hanson.
P. D. James’s Still-Haunting Vision in Children of Men
After nearly three decades, how does this modern classic of dystopian literature hold up?
The Supreme Court Denotes Race
On the Court, the Black/black issue is the culmination of a long stylistic evolution.
The Many Saints of Newark Departs from David Chase’s Sopranos Storytelling
David Chase’s feature-film return to the world of Tony Soprano has been getting middling-to-negative reviews and it deserves them.
Sections
Splitsville, U.S.A.
Getting rid of a spouse through slow, secretive poisoning was the plot of innumerable stories and old radio shows.
