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Articles
The Navy’s Littoral Hubris
How the service bet its future on a mistaken assumption.
Marital Clash
Why social conservatives oppose recognizing same-sex marriage in federal law.
Features
Tehran, the Day After
What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?
Edmund Burke’s Conservative Liberalism
He knew the difference between policy reform and polity reformation.
Books, Arts & Manners
Robert Lowell’s Fruitful Agony
A review of Memoirs, by Robert Lowell, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc.
The Path to Black Flourishing
A review of The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic, by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, edited by W. B. Allen.
Gender Ideology’s Origin Story
A review of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, by Abigail Favale.
Taking It in Stride
With the pandemic came a change, greater than a riverside highway or acres of landfill. Those are local, this was a third thing, everywhere: outdoor dining.
Nope: Jordan Peele’s Overstuffed Horror-Western
Whatever its problems, Nope achieves at least one clear success.
Sections
Spam and Eggs
A presidential candidate who vowed to stop junk email and spam calls would vault up 20 points in the polls.
RE: Prep for Shareholders Meeting
We have gone through our library of film and television titles and generated a list of possible remakes/reboots to present to the shareholders and investment community.
Bleemer and Gorpman Are Dead
Meme culture gives us a glimpse into the befuddlement archaeologists and antiquarians must have felt.