IN THE August 29, 2022, ISSUE Schools Are Wasting Covid Cash By Ryan Mills They are awash in relief funds; maybe they could spend them on education.
Elections Economic Data and the Coming Elections By Matthew Continetti What do the numbers predict for Congress and the White House?
World One Ukrainian’s Life By Jay Nordlinger No one would have planned the life that Sentsov has lived.
Education Schools Are Wasting Covid Cash By Ryan Mills They are awash in relief funds; maybe they could spend them on education.
Politics & Policy Covid Costs for Kids By Nat Malkus Officials made public-health bets that students will have to pay for.
Politics & Policy The Toxic Education Politics of Covid By Vladimir Kogan Both sides of the aisle took advantage of the crisis to push long-preferred agendas.
Education Parochial-School Progress By Kathleen Porter-Magee Catholic K–12 education is strong and can become stronger.
Education Casualties of the Reading Wars By Dale Chu Phonics or ‘whole language’? The choice is consequential.
Education Students’ Family Background Matters By Ian V. Rowe On the need to sort student outcomes by domestic situation.
Education Sue the Thought Police By Jack Fowler Speech First is fighting, and prevailing, against campus censorship.
Education Defund the Teacher-Trainers By Frederick M. Hess It would be good for students, good for parents, good for schools.
Books America’s Foundational Book By Rich Lowry The book that has done so much to shape our understanding of God and ourselves is sure to slip farther in the consciousness of the nation and individuals.
Books The Dangerous Decarceration Agenda By Andrew C. McCarthy Prisons teem with violent criminals who, because of progressive practices, commit many crimes before they are finally imprisoned.
Books Same as the Old Puritans By Graham Hillard Progressives’ puritanism manifests as a kind of behavioral totalitarianism. Theirs is not just Sunday worship but an all-consuming ‘way of life.’
Books Oscar Hammerstein II: A Wonderful Guy By Peter Tonguette We knew that he was a good man, because of the words he set down on paper and gave to the world.
Culture Two Groups of Women, Weeping By David Mamet Tragedy is the highest of the dramatic arts. It refines all superficial human differences to an irreducible commonality.
Garner the Grammarian Are You an Etymologist? By Bryan A. Garner Let’s test your knowledge of some unusual etymologies.
Film & TV Bullet Train’s Satisfying Spectacle By Ross Douthat Bullet Train is a summer action movie that isn’t bloated or heavy on world-building pretension, a spectacle that knows its own limitations.
Letters Letters By NR Editors It’s not just ‘American conservatives’ who do not put ‘climate change at the top of their to-do lists.’
The Week The Week By NR Editors Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri has rejoined his co-conspirator, Osama bin Laden, somewhere in the hereafter.
The Long View Midterm Messaging Adjustments By Rob Long In light of recent poll figures, we thought we’d like to share with you some of our conclusions.
Happy Warrior Chuck It By Jessica Hornik That was hardly my first woodchuck, though it was my heftiest one.