No. 57-7-8, July 2025
Index
- Clever the Twain Shall Meet: An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.
- Donald Trump Is Following the Sam Brownback Playbook: The former Kansas governor's radical economic agenda undermined the state S prosperity, decimated vital government services, tanked his popularity, and put a Democrat in power. Could the same fate await the current president?
- God and Man at Sea: William F Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
- How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement: Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of telehealth and the free sharing of mifepristone and misoprostol.
- In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism: Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy wouldfail. Those conditions turned out to be key to the program's success.
- Lebanon's Precarious Future.
- Resurrecting the Rebel Alliance: To end the age of Trump, Democrats must relearn the language and levers of power.
- Rules to Win By: The July/August issue is here. (Magazine)
- The Next Frontier of Plutocracy: A little-noticed FEC ruling has opened the door for mega-donors to give nearly unlimited amounts of money directly to political campaigns. Elections will never be the same.
- The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It's Regulated Competition: From airlines to energy, shipbuilding to railroads, America became a capitalist superpower in the 20th century based on careful market rules. It can do so again.
- The Supreme Court's Immunity-to-Impunity Pipeline: Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today's Court is not checking Trump's authoritarianism--it's codifying it.
- Unscrambling the Price of Eggs: Yes, birdflu is a factor, but so is greedflation.
- What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance: The countrys leaders thought they could restore the nation's lost glory through alliance with Hitler By 1945, Budapest lay in ruins and 550,000 Hungarian Jews were dead.
- Who Is Batya Ungar-Sargon? A Berkeley-educated leftist who couldn't bear drinking at a bar with Trump voters is now MAGA's top defender. A tale for our times.