October 15, 2018

Will Oregon be the next blue state with a Republican governor?

Charm makes the world seem a more enticing place—but it is going the way of chivalry, good manners, and unmotivated kindness.

Britain’s Conservative party comes together—and soon it will be coming apart

An ugly, dishonest and ever-changing attack on Brett Kavanaugh and the nomination process.

Administration officials seem to have talked the president out of leaving Syria. They’re right.

What started as a rebellion in rural England over agricultural regulations has become a continent-wide quarrel about who governs whom.

Years from now, perhaps only days from now, when people are no longer quite so inebriated with partisanship, those who wish Brett Kavanaugh well and those who wish him ill will probably agree on one thing: His defiant September 27 statement denying the charges leveled against him in the course of…

For anybody who wasn’t totally committed to the proposition that Christine Blasey Ford spoke only the literal truth about Brett Kavanaugh during her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, there were long stretches during Kavanaugh’s testimony that felt like a show trial. For hours we watched…

But where’s the crime?

In California’s 8th, both candidates are on the right. But which is Trumpier?

The failed Macedonia referendum.

Noah Millman on the promise and pitfalls of cross-gender casting in Shakespeare.

James Gardner on Delacroix’s undeserved reputation for greatness.

Ashley May on the fire that destroyed Brazil’s Museu Nacional—and the risk factors for American museums.

Andrew Egger on the prickly street preacher who became the ‘father of Christian rock.’

As if bureaucracies weren’t complicated enough. The New York Times reports that beginning next year, New York City will give people the option of identifying themselves on their birth certificates not only as “male” or “female,” but also as “X.” New Yorkers such as Charlie Arrowood (who, we are…

French politician Marine Le Pen is a great fan of Vladimir Putin, a social progressive, and leader of a political party that from time to time flirts with the anti-Semitic right—she’s not a woman with whom we can ordinarily sympathize. Still, she has a talent for stirring European elites in ways…

A barroom tussle? Drinking beer on a weeknight? That’s nothing. How about the time the 19-year-old wrote a theater review in which he lamented the cast of “perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.” What sort of vile misogynistic…

Many news organizations have disgraced themselves over these last few weeks in the unlovely quest for peccadillos in Brett Kavanaugh’s youth, but the New York Times has outshone the rest. A story on October 2 brought us finally to the point of self-parody. The lede was breathtaking in its…

The first time I felt it was in the first grade. I wasn’t in Mrs. Conn’s class, but she reprimanded me for talking back as we stood in line in the lunchroom. The feeling, a cold burn, rose briefly in my chest before sinking down, down, down, into the pit of my stomach. Woooop, went the Big Sink.…