1990s
|
2000s
|
2010s
|
2010
|
2011
|
2012
|
2013
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016
|
January
|
February
|
March
|
April
|
May
|
Vol. 021 Issue 032 (May 2 2016)
|
Vol. 021 Issue 033 (May 9 2016)
|
Vol. 021 Issue 034 (May 16 2016)
|
••Cover Page••
|
••Contents••
|
The Scrapbook
|
|
THE SCRAPBOOK The New Black List When it comes to Hollywood, The Scrapbook is grateful for small favors. And last week we got a very small favor from Hollywood, for which we are suitably...
|
Words at Work
|
Mundahl, Erin
|
CASUAL Words at Work Business schools are like san-atoriums for the English language—places where words go to languish and softly fade, easing towards a coughing, cliched death. It’s not so much...
|
Editorials
|
|
EDITORIALS the weekly Standard Neither Clinton Nor Trump “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.” —John F. Kennedy, 1960 I have always voted for the Republican presidential candidate. From...
|
When You Can't Stand Your Candidate
|
ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
|
When You Can’t Stand Your Candidate A story of 1972. The party has nominated someone who cannot win and should not be president of the United States. We anticipate a landslide defeat, and then a...
|
He'll Do It His Way
|
BARNES, FRED
|
He’ll Do It His Way Don’t expect a New Trump. If you’re expecting Donald Trump to change now that he’s the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, forget it. Trump says he can act...
|
Striking Out
|
Eastland, Terry
|
Striking Out The Merrick Garland nomination is going nowhere. Of the 54 Senate Republicans, only 2—Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine— support holding hearings this election year on...
|
Obama and Brexit
|
WINTON, JOEL
|
Obama and Brexit He doesn’t care about Britain, so why did he butt in? President Obama loves the European Union. He believes the British people should too. And to anyone who might dissent from...
|
Why Not the Best?
|
WARREN, MICHAEL
|
Why Not the Best? Paul Manafort takes his talents to the Trump campaign. In Washington, the talk of the town for weeks has been Paul Manafort, the adviser recently hired by Donald Trump’s...
|
Insurgency on the Left
|
EPSTEIN, ETHAN
|
Insurgency on the Left Challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Hollywood, Fla. £ ~r our time is up, Debbie,” the woman says to me, referring to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman,...
|
Rehab for Reds
|
RADOSH, RONALD
|
Rehab for Reds The resurrection of American communism. Anew generation of college-aged students, for whom the Cold War and communism is a distant phenomenon, have had democratic socialism...
|
'Der Alte Jude'
|
HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE
|
'Der Alte Jude’ The Jewish life of Benjamin Disraeli A recent book in the Yale University Press series on “Jewish Lives,” a biography of the nineteenth-century British prime minister Benjamin...
|
'A Country Is a Country'
|
LAWLER, PETER AUGUSTINE
|
'A Country Is a Country’ Trumpism and beyond Well, this has been a most unexpected primary/caucus season. More than 45 percent of the voters are for either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. For many...
|
Can You Hear It?
|
Pritchard, William H.
|
Count Basie on piano, Freddie Green on guitar (1966) Can 'Ybu Hear It? Even a ‘moldy figy may have something to learn. Ted Gioia has established himself in the forefront of contemporary writers...
|
Professor Lonely
|
CANNATO, VINCENT J.
|
B A Professor Lonely Not as bad as, but in some ways worse than, it seems. Many people observed what happened on some college campuses last fall and wondered what the heck is going on in...
|
The Wondrous Critic
|
GARDNER, JAMES
|
B A The Wondrous Critic The eye and the pen of Robert Hughes were without peer. It is an oddity of Robert Hughes’s posthumous reputation that, although this art critic received many tributes when...
|
Old Fritz
|
NAGORSKI, ANDREW
|
B A Old Fritz A scholar’s account of Prussia’s enlightened despot. In 1717, Frederick William, the king of Prussia, gave his 5-year-old son a full company of lead soldiers for Christmas. This was...
|
Dubliners' Joy
|
PODHORETZ, JOHN
|
B A Dubliners’ Joy Coming of age to a pop eighties soundtrack. Sing Street is laden with melodramatic elements: a marriage disintegrating against the background of a national economic crisis, a...
|
Parody
|
|
...
|
Vol. 021 Issue 035 (May 23 2016)
|
Vol. 021 Issue 036 (May 30 2016)
|
June
|
July
|
August
|
September
|
October
|
November
|
December
|
2017
|
2018
|
|