IN THE August 10, 2020, ISSUE Ibram X. Kendi, Prophet of Anti-racism By Christopher Caldwell He says we must fight discrimination with discrimination, and that it’s racist to disagree.
Elections The GOP’s Keystone Candidates By John J. Miller Three Democratic House incumbents are their targets.
World The Attempted Shutdown of China’s Christians By Nina Shea Beijing is exploiting the pandemic to curtail and subvert their faith.
Culture Ibram X. Kendi, Prophet of Anti-racism By Christopher Caldwell He says we must fight discrimination with discrimination, and that it’s racist to disagree.
Media Don’t Watch One America News Network By Jack Butler A report from someone who has, to his regret.
National Security & Defense Trump’s Reactive Engagement By Victor Davis Hanson Examining the president’s foreign policy.
Books Who Were the Never Trumpers and What Motivated Them? By Dan McLaughlin A review of Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites, by Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles.
Books Alternatives to Climate Alarmism By Alex Trembath Reviews of False Alarm, by Bjorn Lomborg, and Apocalypse Never, by Michael Shellenberger.
Culture The Nazis Got Your Mom By David Mamet We in the 20th century, on balance, didn’t go looking for trouble till trouble came looking for us. And then we ended it.
City Desk Returning to an Unfamiliar New York City By Richard Brookhiser Appointments aside, we stuck to our neighborhood, where none of our friends live, only the people on whom we depend.
Film & TV Palm Springs Is Groundhog Day for Millennials">Palm Springs Is Groundhog Day for Millennials By Ross Douthat My guess is that the shadow of Groundhog Day loomed, like Punxsutawney Phil’s on a winter morning, over the construction of the ending.
The Week The Week By NR Editors The only police the Democrats want to fund these days is the thought police.
Athwart Transform It All By James Lileks The Left adores transformation, because it means the old miserable manifestations of the culture are remade to their wishes.
The Long View The Committee on Presidential Debates By Rob Long Almost ten o’clock at night and we’re up doing, what?
Happy Warrior What’s in a Nickname? By David Harsanyi Today’s woke activists who are scouring Wikipedia for historical injustices, are sanctimonious, imperious, undereducated, censorious, and authoritarian.