Magazine Issue

May 11, 2021

Escaping the rat race
Education

Escaping the rat race

Matt Feeney’s Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age is a lucid, moving account of the pressures on contemporary American middle-class and upper-class families…

Blake Smith
Colonialism or democracy?
Magazine - Features

Colonialism or democracy?

Democrats increasingly believe that the American electoral system is skewed against them. But with a bare majority in the House and a “tiebreaker majority” in the Senate,…

Ben Jacobs
‘Shot and a Beer’
Magazine - Your Land

‘Shot and a Beer’

Developing a highly effective and safe coronavirus vaccine in little under a year was no small task. But now, the federal government faces another challenge: convincing millions…

Kaylee McGhee White
No dancing
Healthcare

No dancing

The newest coronavirus restriction in Washington, D.C., seems to have been ripped straight from the plot of Footloose. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last week that indoor and…

Kaylee McGhee White
The intersectional CIA
Beltway Confidential

The intersectional CIA

When I first saw the “I am a cisgender millennial” recruitment video for the Central Intelligence Agency, I thought it was a spoof, an attempt to bring…

Reuel Marc Gerecht
Word of the Week: ‘Arabic’
Foreign Policy

Word of the Week: ‘Arabic’

The theory of “cultural imperialism” was first proposed by communications scholar Herbert Schiller to describe how a wealthier Western country might be said to dominate another even…

Nicholas Clairmont