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March/April 2023

March/April 2023

Cover Story

Unwarranted Optimism

Ted Galen Carpenter February 13, 2023
The Confederates after Chancellorsville forgot the structural odds against them. Is Ukraine making the same mistake?
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Editorial

Zelensky in Gray

Helen Andrews February 13, 2023
The editorial from the March-April 2023 issue of The American Conservative.

Front Lines

E Pluribus Duo

James P. Pinkerton February 13, 2023
Why not have two presidents?

‘The Day After’ at 40

Peter Tonguette February 13, 2023
The classic about nuclear armageddon now seems shamelessly manipulative.

Who Deserves Scalia’s Mantle?

Garrett Snedeker February 13, 2023
The Chevron precedent may hold the key to the future of the conservative legal movement.

Work the Line

Carmel Richardson February 13, 2023
Country music, like its middle class listeners, is in an era of disillusionment.

The Old Normal

Harry Scherer February 13, 2023
Churches that stayed open during the pandemic are the ones thriving.

Transit Gloria Urbis

William S. Lind February 13, 2023
The mindset has to change from “How many people can we cram in?” to “How many riders can we entice?”

Commentary

The Kennan Canon, Vermont Edition

Bill Kauffman February 13, 2023
Kennan’s final, and most engagingly radical, enthusiasm? Independence for the state of Vermont.

A Fiscal Sister Souljah

Matthew Schmitz February 13, 2023
Medicare and Social Security cuts: the right’s version of “defund the police.”

Features

Unwarranted Optimism

Ted Galen Carpenter February 13, 2023
The Confederates after Chancellorsville forgot the structural odds against them. Is Ukraine making the same mistake?

Uncle Sam’s Buildings

Catesby Leigh February 13, 2023
From Anniston, Alabama, to Laramie, Wyoming, smaller cities once profited from beautiful federal architecture.

Protectionism Doesn’t Pay

Samuel Gregg February 13, 2023
Contemporary American trade restrictionists are essentially expressing a modern version of mercantilism.

India’s Majoritarian Turn

Sumantra Maitra February 13, 2023
Modi finishes the work of decolonization left incomplete by generations of Anglophile elites.

Barney the Butler

Erik Raschke February 13, 2023
A Midwesterner can learn all the tricks of butler school and still never master the art of bending to please rich people.

The Grapple for the Gavel

Bradley Devlin February 13, 2023
Inside the fight to deny Kevin McCarthy the speakership.

Arts & Letters

Our Discreet Capital

Nic Rowan February 13, 2023
The separation of wheat from chaff occurs commonly at elite high schools near the city, but those who experience it usually only recognize it—…

A Revisionist Adam Smith

Mark G. Brennan February 13, 2023
Turn to Glory Liu’s incisive study of Adam Smith to vaccinate yourself against the bacilli of bad history lessons coming your way in 2026.

Gringos and Gnomons

John Wilson February 13, 2023
Does Charles Portis belong in the Library of America? Yes.

The Last Gasp of an Ideology

Julius Krein February 13, 2023
Samuel Gregg’s utopian ideal of perfectly self-regulating markets, totally insulated from politics, offers little to inform practical policy or to illuminate economic history.

Political-Dreamings! Perspective Horrors!

Dan Hitchens February 13, 2023
Gillray’s prints combined high art—grand action scenes, literary symbolism, elaborate allegory and complex detail—with obscenity, outrageous insults, bizarre distortions of the…

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