IN THE December 22, 2019, ISSUE Pete Buttigieg, Progressive Saint By Kyle Smith He hasn’t done a lot, but then neither has your minister.
Economy & Business Common Ground on the Common Good By Ramesh Ponnuru Conservatives should be able to find it.
Economy & Business What to Do about the Gig Economy By Robert VerBruggen California is imposing onerous new regulations, but there is another way.
Politics & Policy Zora Neale Hurston’s Individualism By John J. Miller She wrote a novel for the ages but shunned ‘Race Pride.’
Elections Pete Buttigieg, Progressive Saint By Kyle Smith He hasn’t done a lot, but then neither has your minister.
Education Catching Up with Mitch By Jay Nordlinger A conversation with ex-governor Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University.
Books Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump By Mario Loyola A review of Age of Iron: On Conservative Nationalism, by Colin Dueck.
Books Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Humility By Sherif Girgis A review of A Republic, If You Can Keep It, by Neil Gorsuch.
Books A Populist History of Religious Disbelief By Graham Hillard A review of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, by Alec Ryrie.
Books Thomas Mann in America By Elizabeth Powers A review of Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters, by Tobias Boes.
Books A Post-Apocalyptic Tale with a Twist By John Wilson A review of The Second Sleep: A Novel, by Robert Harris.
Film & TV Why Scorsese’s The Irishman Doesn’t Succeed By Ross Douthat De-aging visual technology can only do so much.
The Long View Netflix’s Streaming Video Series Woke Hand for the Heartland By Rob Long On the heels of Netflix series Queer Eye, in which five gay style experts help people update their lifestyles, comes the newest Netflix style-maker hit.
Poetry Percentages By Len Krisak He was so certain (says The Book) that when the day was done, the giant wouldn’t be alive.
Happy Warrior Dump of a City By David Harsanyi When I was a young boy in the 1970s, my hometown of Queens, New York, was a garbage dump.