January 8, 2025 Issue

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FEATURE

The West is back: A new willingness to fight the rot that has been corroding our civilization

by David Harsanyi

✪ Academics against higher education

by Grant Addison

✪ Bury wokeness: If leftist identity politics are dying, conservatives should act like it

by Graham Hillard

✪ Democracy vs. bureaucracy: How populism became the handmaiden of tech

by Dominic Green

✪ Brave SANU world: Lessons from a postpartum retreat

by Kara Kennedy

Your Land

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A nation of Scrooges

by Conn Carroll

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New year, new felony

by Zachary Faria

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The religious Left

by Timothy P. Carney

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Bourbon Street before terrorism

by Quin Hillyer

Business

BUSINESS

Can Glenn Youngkin make Virginia great again?

BUSINESS

Intra-MAGA H-1B visa rift misses broader point about immigration and workforce

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Admitting error about Biden, to a point

by W. James Antle III

Washington Briefing

What will antitrust enforcement look like under Trump 2.0?

by Keely Bastow

New Jersey and Virginia set to open barn-burner governor’s race season

Jimmy Carter, a sometimes outcast in the world’s most exclusive club

Will Kamala Harris’s middling Israel support be a high-water mark for Democratic presidential nominees?

by Mike Wagenheim

House committee tries to rein in a VA loan program

by Kevin R. Kosar

The Columnists

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Dan Hannan

In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake

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Michael Barone

Toward a political history of the last 75 years

Life & Arts

TV

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Books

Angela Merkel’s ashes

by James Kirchick

Books

Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and the trouble with academia

Sports

The Baseball Hall of Fame abides

On Culture

Internet voyeurism has drilled a hole in the soul of rap

by Ben Sixsmith

Film

Another side of Bob Dylan, who is a circle

by David Polansky

Long Life

The finer things in life

Books

A history of Hollywood’s greatest failures

by Peter Tonguette

More from the Magazine

Business

Can Glenn Youngkin make Virginia great again?

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Obituary

Lee Edwards, 1932-2024

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