IN THE April 4, 2022, ISSUE Population Bomb Scare By Kevin D. Williamson Low fertility, not overpopulation, is the problem.
Energy & Environment Biden’s Low-Energy Policy By Dominic Pino The long-term danger in the president’s antipathy to fossil fuels.
Education Our Children and the Okie Camp By Rachel Lu A story of Dust Bowl education offers lessons for parents today.
Culture America at the Amelia By Charles C. W. Cooke On a Florida island, 100,000 celebrate the beauty of the well-designed automobile.
World Population Bomb Scare By Kevin D. Williamson Low fertility, not overpopulation, is the problem.
World Hungary’s Demographic Failure By Lyman R. Stone Viktor Orbán’s policies have not reversed population decline.
National Security & Defense The Defense Budget We Need By Jerry Hendrix How to correct decades of strategically unserious underspending.
Books Conservatism’s Unsung Hero By Lee Edwards A review of M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom, by Steven F. Hayward.
Books Guests of the Great Emancipator By Allen C. Guelzo A review of A House Built by Slaves, by Jonathan W. White.
Books How the Supreme Court Became the Province of Cloistered Elites By Dan McLaughlin A review of The Credentialed Court, by Benjamin H. Barton.
Music Changing, and Staying the Same By Jay Nordlinger Two American operas based on classic Italian novels had their premieres about five weeks apart.
Garner the Grammarian W Is for Webster, Worcester, Woe, and Wrath By Bryan A. Garner Nasty business, lexicography.
Film & TV The Batman Is a Tolerable Return to Gotham By Ross Douthat A review of The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson.
Athwart Put to the Test By James Lileks A machine looks at your passport while a camera goes up and down on a stick.
The Long View NSA National Security Signals By Rob Long ‘WeChat is the most popular and prevalent messaging app in the PROC.’
Poetry Cranial X-ray, Side View, with Obstructing Detail By Maryann Corbett But something’s wrong with this radiant knowledge . . .
Happy Warrior Standing Our Ground By Daniel Foster Standing our ground carries its own risks. But it’s not so risky as slinking away.