July 30, 2018

The National Park Service’s skewed teaching on Japanese internment.

Was the 14th Amendment a new Constitution?

The pitfalls of weighing Trump’s actions one at a time and hoping thereby to arrive at a judicious assessment.

Donald Trump has long been loath to concede that operatives of the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election, feeling as he does that the media like to talk about it mainly to suggest that he only defeated Hillary Clinton thanks to the aid of foreign troublemakers. It’s…

Must everything be about the Washington and the presidency?

What we can learn about modern Russia from a century-old massacre.

On Monday, July 9, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is a serious and respected federal judge with a well-thought-through constitutionalist orientation. Based on what we know now, he deserves enthusiastic support from all who…

Virtue signaling with quinoa and kale.

Politics is rarely edifying, much less elegant. And the mayhem over President Trump’s comments after meeting with Vladimir Putin and the response of his adversaries is an example of just how bad politics can get.

Is there anything with a shorter shelf life than the official talking points of the Trump White House? For Donald Trump, it’s the script to go off script, and any statement he makes today will be altered, contradicted, or undone tomorrow.

The unhappy track record of happy talk.

Why the success of the Federalist Society is unlikely to be replicated.

A muted reaction to Helsinki from the GOP Congress.

Lord Carrington, 1919-2018.

Anthony Daniels on the literary talent (or lack thereof ) of tyrants at the typewriter.

James Gardner on the surprising resilience of Giacometti’s spindly statues.

Alice B. Lloyd on Robert Anthony Siegel’s memoir of outlaws, love, and family.

Adam J. White on what happens when the commander in chief takes the mound.

Did the Duke of Buckingham conspire to kill King James I?

John Podhoretz explains how The Rock's poorly chosen star vehicles risk squandering fans’ affections.

Tom Perrotta on the Serbian star’s Wimbledon comeback.

“‘Having a vagina doesn’t make a woman,’ she said in an interview. ‘Even if many people don’t want to see me as a woman . . .’ ” (“Aiming for Miss Universe, and Transgender Rights,” New York Times, July 14).

By historical standards, security and quality of life in 21st-century America are remarkably high. We may be on a slow decline, but the journey to the bottom is a very long one. And despite daily predictions of doom, Donald Trump has yet to turn the country into a hellscape where the few citizens…

For more than a year and a half now, hundreds of intellectuals and historians and commentators have written books and articles and delivered lectures on the origins and meaning of Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. A foreign observer could be forgiven for thinking every writer on politics and culture in…

The Scrapbook is now at the middle station of life, and for as long as we can remember, bright people have been devising clever ways to get kids to read books. “Educational” television programs that encourage reading, ad campaigns promoting book-reading, kids’ books full of flatulent humor, book…

An op-ed in the New York Times on July 14 caught our attention: “We Pick a Party, Then a Church.” The author, Michele Margolis, an assistant professor of political science at Penn, contends that the common assumption about religious and political affiliations in America—that party affiliations are…

Mark Hemingway, stock boy.