As you may have noticed from the date on the cover of this issue, all of us at The Weekly Standard will be taking a week off (though the digital galley slaves at weeklystandard.com—visit early and often!—are going to power through the holiday season). The Scrapbook is self-indulgently ecumenical when it comes to celebrations and looks forward to airing Festivus grievances, lighting Hanukkah candles, and singing Christmas carols. Afterwards, we will spend a few days self-medicating our various anxiety disorders with fruitcake, washed down with leftover eggnog and mulled wine, before returning to your mailboxes week after next.
But enough about us. If you’re seeking to fill your Scrapbook void in the days ahead, we cannot recommend highly enough the most recent in the series of Conversations with Bill Kristol (available, as always, at conversationswithBillKristol.org). It’s a return engagement with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield, whom Bill tasked with explaining “the meaning of Trump from the point of view of political science, political philosophy.” Here’s a very small taste:
