Print Issue
May 12, 2014
Cover Story
So You Want to Live Forever
Immortality through advanced technology and primitive diet
By Charlotte Allen
Also in This Issue
- Fidel Castro's Favorite Novelist — Lee Smith
- Getting Ready for a Bad Deal — Elliott Abrams
- Shut Up, They Explained — Fred Barnes
This issue of The Weekly Standard featured Charlotte Allen's cover story on the life-extension movement, exploring how technological advances and dietary practices promise to extend human lifespan. Lee Smith contributed a notable piece on Gabriel García Márquez's controversial embrace of Fidel Castro, examining the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's troubling political alignment. The issue also included analysis of Obama administration policies, from Elliott Abrams on Israel's security concerns to coverage of Obamacare's insurance industry arrangements and debates over the illiberal tactics of the political left.