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Picture of Joseph Alsop, 1963

Dramatic License

The character in ‘The Columnist’ is not the Joseph Alsop I knew.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Jean Harlow in a Packard

Big Wheels

The American and his/her car.

BY P. J. O’ROURKE

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Rep. Anthony Weiner

Sexual Overload

Sometimes promiscuity is just promiscuity.

BY ANN MARLOWE

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Dan Vyleta

Viennese Waltz

The second novel from a master of historic horror.

BY STEFAN BECK

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Israel Meir Lau with Pope John Paul II

Chain of Miracles

A rabbi reflects on the meaning of survival.

BY ROBERT M. GOLDBERG

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Dame Maggie Smith

Geezers’ Delight

A fable for the underserved, over-50 crowd.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 28, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 35

Photo of Jonah Goldberg

Ideas Matter

So long as they are ideas and not partisan talking points.

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Picture of Quakers hanged as heretics

Tough Love

In colonial New England, the ideal was not freedom but conformity.

BY EDWARD ACHORN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Movie still from "Metropolitan"

Stillman’s Vision

The ‘WASP Woody Allen’ in search of moral truth.

BY IAN MARCUS CORBIN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

French political cartoon

Why Captain Dreyfus?

The shame and redemption of France.

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Photo of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Chris Evans)

Super Unheroic

Despite what you read, this is one epic not worth seeing.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 21, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 34

Picture of a goat

Whose Fault Is It?

Laying the blame for blame.

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of R. A. Dickey in action

No Spin Zone

Reflections from the thinking man’s knuckleballer.

BY JOSHUA GELERNTER

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of German infantryman surveying the wreckage of a Soviet tank, 1941

Turning Point

Hitler lost the war the moment he invaded the Soviet Union.

BY MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Still from the movie

No Laughing Matter

The ingredients are there, but the experiment fizzles.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Photo of John D. Rockefeller donating a dime

The Giving Game

The saga of philanthropy still needs its history.

BY MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Image of The Winter Cherry

Mrs. D.’s Gift

A second flowering in the Augustan Age.

BY KATE LIGHT

May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33

Illustration of The creation of Eve from the 15th century

On Seeing the World

The more we know, the less we seem to understand.

BY AARON ROTHSTEIN

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of Judge Judy

It’s Still Her Courtroom

The jurisprudence of Judge Judy.

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of Performance artist Dawn Kasper

Fad Men

The Whitney Biennial strikes again.

BY JAMES GARDNER

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of Jimmy Carter receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Mysteries of Oslo

The tenuous relation of the Nobel Peace Prize to peace.

BY JOHN BOLTON

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of three people dressed as Storm Troopers and a child dressed as Spiderman

Fandom in Focus

An affectionate (?) look at popular obsession.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of Michael Robbins

The Wiki-Poet

A brave new bard for the Internet age.

BY ELI LEHRER

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32

Photo of Gene Vincent, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney

Fab Foreign Adventure

The Teutonic roots of Beatlemania.

BY DAWN EDEN

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Photo of Malcolm X and George Schuyler

Who Was George Schuyler?

Rediscovering (and reclaiming) ‘the black H. L. Mencken.’

BY MARY GRABAR

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Safety First

The constitutional seesaw in the war on terror.

BY GARY SCHMITT

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Photo of a book and a magnifying glass

The True Facts

A revealing look at the editorial back-and-forth.

BY ZACK MUNSON

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Photo of Anglican clergymen, circa 1870

People of the Book

No need to be a believer to cherish the Bible.

BY EDWARD SHORT

April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31

Photo of Chinese people lining up to buy train tickets

Demography Is Destiny

The perils of population loss.

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

Photo of Stalin

The Paranoid State

Suspicion and betrayal and the Soviet way of life.

BY JAMES C. BANKS

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

Image of the Lady in Gold

Gold Standard

The journey of a masterpiece through the twentieth century.

BY AMY HENDERSON

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

Photo of Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes’s Creator

Millions of words and one indelible character.

BY DIANE SCHARPER

April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30

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