Vol. 22, No. 17
January 2, 2017
Cover Story
Hitting Eighty
Life comes at you fast
By Joseph Epstein
Also in This Issue
- Mucking Out the Justice Department — Fred Barnes
- Electoral Masterpiece — Jeffrey H. Anderson
- The Perils of Hyperbole — Jay Cost
This double issue opened 2017 with Joseph Epstein's meditation on reaching eighty, reflecting on how quickly life unfolds. The issue examined the incoming Trump administration, including Fred Barnes's assessment of Jeff Sessions's challenging path at the Justice Department and Jeffrey H. Anderson's defense of the Electoral College as a triumph of constitutional design. Contributors also analyzed Trump's dominance of political discourse in 2016, the ineffectiveness of hyperbolic opposition rhetoric, and cultural topics ranging from superhero films to Beethoven and Homer.