November 5, 2018

Liberal politicos—as distinct from progressive ideologues—rarely express their belief that “family planning,” as it’s euphemistically known, can alleviate or even solve the problem of poverty. We recall President Bill Clinton’s first surgeon general, the logorrheic Joycelyn Elders, remarking in her…

It took the United States 193 years to accumulate its first trillion dollars of federal debt. We will add that much in the current fiscal year alone.

Political dysfunction as far as the eye can see.

No state that actively supports terrorism and foreign insurgencies ought to have access to the global financial system.

More and more Democrats are embracing socialized health insurance, but calling it that won’t necessarily help.

With a body count in the millions, you’d think it would be hard to rebrand.

Courts are more often recognizing the arguments of religious-freedom advocates.

Italy’s coalition government came to power in May partly by winning an economic argument: The tight-budget “austerity” policies promoted by the European Union in the wake of the financial crises that began a decade ago were a sucker’s game, at least for slow-moving economies like Italy’s. Now the…

Bellingcat’s amateurs excel at the intelligence game.

What the model shows.

A close Senate race may hold clues for 2020.

But don’t call Missouri’s Josh Hawley a ‘golden boy.’

The voter-suppression rap on Georgia’s Brian Kemp is unfair.

Todd H. Bol, 1956-2018.

Gary Saul Morson on the literary legacy of 19th-century Russian revolutionary terrorism.

Chris R. Morgan on the lasting appeal of the horror genre.

Thomas Vinciguerra reviews a collection of Cornell lectures from the comic actor and Monty Python legend.

John Podhoretz on a down-and-out writer’s clever path to sham success.

News that P. G. Wodehouse will at last get a memorial stone in Westminster Abbey in London will warm the hearts of Wodehouse fans. For some years after the Second World War, the British government treated the writer with disdain, owing to the mistaken belief that Wodehouse had willingly…

A recent headline in the New York Times: “Democrats Want to Beat Scott Walker But the Wisconsin Economy Is a Hurdle.” The lengthy report examines the Badger State’s Democrats’ attempt to deprive Walker of a third term as governor. Their problems consist mainly of good news: The state’s unemployment…

The Washington Post ran an item recently about a private school in the greater Washington area that was hiring a director of alumni. Doesn’t sound like much of a story, except for the fact that the institution in question is Georgetown Prep, the school attended by Supreme Court justice Brett…

PEN International, founded in London in 1921, is an organization of writers dedicated to the cause of free expression. Originally the title stood for Poets, Essayists, Novelists, but the group now includes every sort of littérateur, even humble magazine writers. We revere the organization’s…

Priscilla M. Jensen on the sisterhood of the spiral-bound cookbook.