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Kevin Spacey in 'House of Cards'

I See Nothing

The busy life, and the busier television schedule, call for desperate measures.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Henri Matisse and glass panel (1948)

Better with Age

The creative impulse improves as well as declines.

BY DAVID GELERNTER

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Robert J. Lieber

Alive and Well

American power and influence need not be on the wane.

BY JOSHUA MURAVCHIK

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

copyright

Free Use and Abuse

The pitfalls, and potential, of copyright.

BY SONNY BUNCH

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Bork

Servant of the Law

The experience, and good sense, of Robert Bork.

BY J. HARVIE WILKINSON III

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

Obama doctors

The Singapore Cure

An economic, not political, solution to the health care crisis.

BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' (1990)

Portrait of a Lady

A second look at Evan S. Connell's domestic masterpiece.

BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Judge Learned Hand (center) is honored for 50 years' service on the federal...

On the Other Hand...

The judicial temperament, in private.

BY G. EDWARD WHITE

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Rooney Mara

Red Herring Alert

You will be pleasantly surprised by the surprise here.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Yorktown monument, Virginia

Surveying the Fields

And the (surprisingly) gradual process of commemoration.

BY ANTHONY PALETTA

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

Elizabeth Jennings

A Faithful Poet

From the darkness of her existence, Elizabeth Jennings comes to light.

BY EDWARD SHORT

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Sylvester Stallone

Geezers With Guns

Is the Activia motion picture past its prime?

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

The Emporer Claudius

Universal Empire

All roads, historically speaking, lead to Rome.

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Constance and her son Cyril, 1889

Wife in Shadow

Oscar Wilde's marriage did not end happily.

BY ELIZABETH POWERS

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

'Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with a student' by Jacapo de' Barbari (1495)

Here's Looking at Euclid

Why geometry matters in the life of the mind.

BY DAVID GUASPARI

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Masaharu Fukuyama as Detective Galileo in 'Suspect X' (2008)

Tokyo Mysteries

Why Japan's most popular novelist is so popular.

BY ETHAN EPSTEIN

February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22

Donald Westlake

Parker Inaction

The criminal mind is not necessarily gripping entertainment.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

David Shields

Books of Hours

One man’s meat is another man’s stuffing.

BY PETER TONGUETTE

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

‘Stairway to Heaven’ (2002) by Didier Faustino

Building Blocs

An exhibition at the intersection of politics, art, and urban design.

BY EVE TUSHNET

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

Sgt. John Guerra of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Baghdad, February 07

Victory in Iraq

How it was won, how it may be lost.

BY BARTLE B. BULL

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

Copernicus and his planisphere (detail), 1661

Seeing and Believing

The scientific method for comprehending the world.

BY SUSANNE KLINGENSTEIN

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

At the LBJ Ranch, 1965

Woman of Texas

The 20th-century journey of Lady Bird Johnson.

BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE

February 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 21

Jimmy Carter meets the press, 1977.

Lives of the Scribes

What you thought you knew about the Washington press corps.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

'Venus with a Mirror' (ca. 1555) by Titian

Look and Learn

Camille Paglia on the best of the West.

BY ELISE PASSAMANI

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Prince Henry Stuart by Isaac Oliver, ca. 1612

Testament of Youth

The elder brother of Charles I, in pictures and memory.

BY SARA LODGE

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Million Man March at the Kremlin, November 1917

Red Dawn

Why the Bolshevik Revolution wasn't 'strangled in its cradle.'

BY ANDREW STUTTAFORD

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Destination Procrastination

All in Good Time

The key to success is getting around to it, eventually.

BY BARTON SWAIM

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Where Thornton Wilder wrote 'Our Town'

Cabin Fever

The creative sensation at the MacDowell Colony.

BY EVA TALMADGE

February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, General Joseph Stilwell, 1942

How China Was 'Lost'

And could it have been saved?

BY ARTHUR WALDRON

January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19

Black Comedy

Quentin Tarantino's version of history as farce.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19

Robert Ingersoll

Rational Man

The skeptic who scandalized Victorian America.

BY KATHERINE MANGU-WARD

January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19

Tazza

A Vessel's Voyage

The journey of a cameo, from Cleopatra's Egypt to modern Italy.

BY AMY HENDERSON

January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19