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THE SCRAPBOOK The WSJ and the 1 Percent C'VY"7’ere admission to Harvard W based solely on academic merit, Asian-Americans would com-prise 43% of the freshman class, while African-Americans would...

Casual

BRITT SPENCER CASUAL Canned Ham Does 12 or 13 count as an early age to become disil-lusioned? Maybe it was once on the young side for lost innocence. On the other hand, maybe I was just a slow...

Editorials

EDITORIALS theweekly Standard Sinking to the Occasion In the days since Robert Bowers murdered 11 congregants inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Americans have contemplated and...

Comment

LIKENESSES: DAVE CLEGG COMMENT CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Misunderstanding Merkel’s legacy Iwasn’t born chancellor,” said German leader Angela Merkel in an ad for her 2009 reelection campaign. She...

A Conspiracy So Vastly Inept

Mccormack, John

A Conspiracy So Vastly Inept The plot to get Mueller. BY JOHN MCCORMACK The Holiday Inn in Rosslyn, Virginia, is a nondescript building that easily blends into the dull neighborhood of offices...

Spicy Politics

Lloyd, Alice B.

Spicy Politics Do customers resist businesses that #Resist? by Alice B. Lloyd Was Michael Jordan wrong? In 1990, the basketball great refused—per one oft-quoted biography—to endorse North Carolina...

A Tale of Two Blasphemies

Green, Dominic

rollable range for a seven-centimeter stick, so most of us never taste them. Companies like Penzeys don’t work directly with single-harvest farmers overseas, of course. “Every-body’s buying off of...

The Making of a Martyr

ROSEN, CHRISTINE

The Making of a Martyr On the interment of Matthew Shepard at the National Cathedral By Christine Rosen Alittle before 9 a.m. on a cool, gray day in Washington, a long line of people stretches...

Up from the Grave

MURAVCHIK, JOSHUA

Up from the Grave The illusory dream of democratic socialism lives again By JOSHUA MURAVCHIK It’s back. Not quite 30 years after Robert Heilbroner declared that “the contest between capitalism...

Some 'Modernizer'

GERECHT, REUEL MARC

Some 'Modernizer Is Saudi Arabia’s crownprince joining a long line of absolutist rulers in the Middle East? By Reuel Marc Gerecht The modernizing rulers of the Arab Middle East date from the...

Outside Man

Irmscher, Christoph

Books ^’Arts Outside Man The Strange, lifelong discomfort of Hermann Hesse. by Christoph Irmscher When he was nearly 15, Hermann Hesse ran away from the Protestant boarding school where his...

Cartographantasies

JACOBS, ALAN

B A Cartographantasies The maps that guide writers and readers through fictional worlds. BY Alan Jacobs Barring some unforeseen mira-cle of Publishing occurring in the next few weeks, The...

The Doctor's Garden

Deitz, Paula

Prisoner of Azkaban, I laughed out loud and desperately wanted one of my own. Mina says that for her “the best stories are those where real and imagi-nary places are constantly overlapping,...

'Wide and Starry Sky'

Mattix, Micah

B A Wide and Starry Sky: How Robert Louis Stevenson came to live, die, and be buried in Samoa. by Micah Mattix Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa by Joseph Farrell Maclehose, 352 pp., $32.99 If...

Heartache and Hope

Christman, Phil

B A Heartache and Hope In Hulu film Minding the Gap, three young skateboarders rewrite their destinies. by Phil Christman No one escapes the working class without guilt. You spend your life...

Parody

“[Hillary] Clinton said Friday that she doesn’t want to run... but then described how she’d still ‘like to be president’ and talked about why she’d be a good one.” —Washington Post, October 29,...

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