From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
Essays
The Political Contradictions of Trumpism
Christopher Lasch and the new populist order’s struggles to be born.
The Left’s Permanent Derangement
It’s more than Donald Trump.
Melville at Sea
Moby-Dick’s fearsome image of America.
Our Happiest Founding Father
Benjamin Franklin and the primacy of the good.
The Two Pope Leos
Can the new pope, like his namesake, find a new approach?
Three Declarations, Three Revolutions
Natural right and American exceptionalism.
Pedro Sánchez’s Kingdom
Progressive reign in Spain.
Brush Up Your Fowler
"A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" a hundred years on.
Red and Dead
How Communism conquered China.
Book Reviews
Under the Vine and Fig Tree
Wine Lunacy
How an obscure occultist gave us the finest Pinot Noirs on earth.
Shadow Play
Stop, Look, and Listen
Ken Burns’s "The American Revolution" does justice to America’s complicated birth pangs.