September 10, 2025 Issue

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FEATURE

Not minding our manners: Signs of a coarsened culture are all around us

by Peter Tonguette

✪ Not all conservatives agree with Trump on flag burning order

by Christopher J. Scalia

✪ Trump’s governance by executive order will be continued by future presidents

by Jay Cost

✪ The Supreme Court’s leap of faith

by Daniel Ross Goodman

✪ How Cracker Barrel’s logo ordeal explains American politics

by Graham Hillard

Your Land

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Socialist Brandon Johnson can’t even fail properly

by Zachary Faria

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Best college football names of 2025

by Conn Carroll

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The new shape of love and infidelity

by Timothy P. Carney

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Democrats lied while Chicagoans died

by Christopher Tremoglie

Business

BUSINESS

Trump move pushes huge railroad merger down the tracks

BUSINESS

The government cannot save Intel. The best thing it can do is get out of the way in the semiconductor industry.

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

When the internet buries Trump, it’s a little different

by W. James Antle III

Washington Briefing

Voters sour on prosecutors touting ‘intersectionality’

by John Scott Lewinski

Trump administration not in a Palestinian state of mind

by Michele Chabin

Has Trump lost India? Punitive tariffs and Nobel Peace Prize insults erode once-close relations

by Jamie McIntyre

House Democrats would represent some of California’s reddest realms under redistricting plan

The Columnists

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Dominic Green

Yahya blows up in Britain

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Dan Hannan

When did England give up on free speech?

Life & Arts

On Culture

Retrofuturism with a side of fries: Reviewing Elon Musk’s LA Tesla diner

Film

If a movie makes $2 billion and no Americans are around to see it, does it make a sound? Review of ‘Ne Zha 2’

by Derek Robertson

Books

Lepore grasp of the Constitution

by Timothy Sandefur

Books

Freddie deBoer’s novel approach to mental illness

by Will Collins

Sports

The stolen base is back — and so is baseball

by Oliver Bateman

TV

‘The Rainmaker’ explores what it takes to make John Grisham bad

by Graham Hillard

Books

How tyrannical governments’ money made American campuses authoritarian

Long Life

The seminarians’ groupchat

More from the Magazine

Business

Trump move pushes huge railroad merger down the tracks

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Obituary

James Dobson, 1936-2025

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