THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
On George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796. by Roger Kimball
On revolution and counterrevolution in America. by Myron Magnet
On the Gordon riots of 1780. by Dominic Green
On the causes of the American Revolution. by Andrew Roberts
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Gaza Broke MAGA’ – Charlie Kirk and the end of the Israel consensus’
How the GOP consensus on Israel cracked by Andrew Cockburn
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills by Nick Bowlin
The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers by Rosa Lyster
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will the AI Bubble burst?’
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
Claremont Review of Books: The latest issue features ‘Special Anniversary Double Issue’….
Imagine sitting near the apex of power in an empire and then being shown the door. You might want to write a tell-all book about it. If so, however, you would be advised to proceed with caution. Now, imagine what would barely be conceivable today: that you undertook to write your exposé while you were still in office. You would need all the finesse of a tightrope walker.
This essay is adapted from remarks delivered at the Claremont Review of Books 25th anniversary gala, held at the Metropolitan Club in New York City on November 6, 2025.
In the early hours of March 11, 1874, word spread around Washington that Charles Sumner was on the brink of death. The 63-year-old senator from Massachusetts had suffered a massive heart attack the previous evening. By 9 a.m., a crowd of several hundred had gathered in front of his home on Lafayette Square. “Colored men and women mingled with white in knots about his home,” wrote The New-York Tribune. Government workers, merchants, shopmen, waiters, and even “old colored women with baskets and bundles on their arms” stood together. Many were crying and begging to be let inside. They were stopped by one of Sumner’s friends and two policemen standing guard at the front door.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Strong Are The Strongmen?’
What Really Threatens Authoritarians? Stephen Kotkin
What Can Reverse Democratic Decline? By Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt
Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order by Nic Cheeseman, Matías Bianchi, and Jennifer Cyr
Beijing’s Strategy to Seize the New Frontiers of Power by Elizabeth Economy
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.
A person close to the family provided a detailed account of what occurred in the Reiner house after a massage therapist received no response at the gate.
The claim was made as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s dismissal of Paramount’s hostile takeover offer.
.A firm controlled by a businessman tied to a seized tanker carrying Venezuelan oil has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.
Employers added 64,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, according to data delayed by the government shutdown.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said two gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration were motivated by “Islamic State ideology.”
The country has long looked warily at the cycle of gun violence in the United States, where meaningful changes in policy have been rare
Mr. Reiner, 32, who was arrested in connection with the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, once estimated he had been in drug treatment 18 times as a teenager.
THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features….
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers. Robert Mariani
The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs. Joseph Lawler
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat. Robert Zubrin
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Cartoons & Puzzles: A magazine maze, cartoonists on their forebears, Stephen Sondheim’s puzzle love, a hundredth-birthday diary, and more.
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money. By John Cassidy
A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism.
Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose. By Ruth Marcus
Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience
The authorities said they were renewing their hunt for the gunman, who killed two people. Officials released a person of interest late Sunday.
The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating an apparent homicide at the couple’s home. The family said they were “heartbroken by this sudden loss.”
Rob Reiner starred in “All in the Family” before directing films including “When Harry Met Sally …,” “The Princess Bride” and “A Few Good Men.”
Officials said a father and son killed at least 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration. More than three dozen others were hospitalized, including a surviving suspect.
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