January/February 2024

Cover Story

Our LGBT Empire

Helen Andrews December 11, 2023

Why is it America’s business to queer the Donbass?

Editorial

American Values

The Editors December 11, 2023

Traditional values are not compatible with membership in the modern American empire.

Front Lines

Giorgia Meloni Falls Short

Christopher Brunet December 11, 2023

Yet another populist politician fails to stop migrants. Is the failure her fault or the system’s?

Trouble at the Panama Canal

Casey Chalk December 11, 2023

The former American zone has turned dystopian, and now China is making moves.

The Best King Arthur of Them All

Will Collins December 11, 2023

Rosemary Sutcliff has been overshadowed, but her novels of Britain after the fall of the Romans are a delight for children of all ages.

The Petraeus Comeback Tour

Nic Rowan December 11, 2023

He survived the indignities of the Obama years, but for what purpose?

The Irreconcilable Individual

Grant Havers December 11, 2023

A Wyndham Lewis essay once sent Hemingway on a mad rampage through a Paris bookstore. He had that effect on a lot of people.

Israel Is Losing

William S. Lind December 11, 2023

In Fourth Generation war, states defeat themselves.

Commentary

Last of the Independents

Bill Kauffman December 11, 2023

“Ballot access” is like “free air.” In a decent country, shouldn’t we all have it?

Why Corporations Love Diversity

Matthew Schmitz December 11, 2023

The embrace of DEI is not a deviation from a natural state in which businesses are neutral on fundamental questions.

Features

Our LGBT Empire

Helen Andrews December 11, 2023

Why is it America’s business to queer the Donbass?

How Drones Are Changing War

Sumantra Maitra December 11, 2023

Cheaper technology means a return to offensive dominance, which makes the whole world more volatile.

Face to Face, Race to Race

Jude Russo December 11, 2023

An adventure in alumni interviewing shows how difficult enforcing SFFA v. Harvard will be.

Bleak Houses

Declan Leary December 10, 2023

Marginal declines in middle-class standard of living are graver than they seem.

Arts and Letters

The Woke and the Asleep

Amy L. Wax December 11, 2023

Hanania’s book is bold and well-researched, but he underestimates how attached even right-wing audiences are to the egalitarian fallacy.

An Epic Tragedy

Anastasia Kaliabakos December 11, 2023

Emily Wilson’s Iliad is a disservice to the classical tradition as a whole.

Why Did the Romans Convert to Christianity, Again?

Michael Warren Davis December 11, 2023

A reissued classic of early church history corrects modern fallacies about why the Romans converted.

Not So Staid

Peter Tonguette December 11, 2023

The movie industry was facing oblivion in the 1950s; they coped with it much better than today.

An Enemy of Pen and Ink

Matthew Walther December 11, 2023

A new biography examines Henry VIII’s now-forgotten fool, the most famous non-royal English layman of his age after the two Thomases, More and…

Can Populists Be Allowed Access to A.I.?

Michael Toscano December 11, 2023

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, Crown Publishing, 352 pages Technology is not…

January/February 2024

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