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Articles
The Rush to Restrict Gun Rights
Proponents of doing so disregard both the Constitution and the available evidence.
Why Republican Governors Are More Popular
They make fewer promises that they have no way of keeping.
Features
The Syriac Christian Renaissance
A civil war, a revival of language and culture, an uncertain future.
Books, Arts & Manners
Land of Hope: A Persuasive and Inspiring History of America">Land of Hope: A Persuasive and Inspiring History of America
A review of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred M. McClay.
Rudyard Kipling’s American Years
A review of If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, by Christopher Benfey.
How Theodor Geisel Became Dr. Seuss
A review of Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, by Brian Jay Jones.
Walt Whitman Isn’t America’s Greatest Poet
Why Walt Whitman was more the father of empty celebrity than of the Democratic spirit.
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood Captures the Virtues of Late-Sixties America">Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood Captures the Virtues of Late-Sixties America
A review of the film Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.
Sections
London Letter
London is my favorite European city, and not just because I can read the menus.
The College-Parent Panic
Of all traditional responsibilities of parenthood, sending your children away has to be the most emotionally jarring.