The July/August issue is here.
July/August 2025
Posted inMagazine
The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It’s Regulated Competition.
From airlines to energy, shipbuilding to railroads, America became a capitalist superpower in the 20th century based on careful market rules. It can do so again.
Posted inMagazine
Resurrecting the Rebel Alliance
To end the age of Trump, Democrats must relearn the language and levers of power.
Posted inBooks
God and Man at Sea
William F. Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
Posted inBooks
What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance
The country’s leaders thought they could restore the nation’s lost glory through alliance with Hitler. By 1945, Budapest lay in ruins and 550,000 Hungarian Jews were dead.
Posted inBooks
The Supreme Court’s Immunity-to-Impunity Pipeline
Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today’s Court is not checking Trump’s authoritarianism—it’s codifying it.
Posted inBooks
Clever the Twain Shall Meet
An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian’s literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.
Posted inPolitics
Donald Trump Is Following the Sam Brownback Playbook
The former Kansas governor’s radical economic agenda undermined the state’s prosperity, decimated vital government services, tanked his popularity, and put a Democrat in power. Could the same fate await the current president?
Posted inMagazine
How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of telehealth and the free sharing of mifepristone and misoprostol.
Posted inPolitics
In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail. Those conditions turned out to be key to the program’s success.
