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Pamela Paul, until recently the longtime editor of The New York Times Book Review, has only been a columnist on the paper’s Opinion desk for a matter of months. Yet she’s already made a name for herself, with just-asking-questions essays meant to expose those twinned, supposed scourges of the left, cancel culture and identity politics (questions that have already been asked, a lot). Having thus transitioned to the paper’s most agenda-setting perch, Paul is now laying the groundwork for a mainstream case for trans exclusion. Читать дальше...

Robert McNamara was one of Camelot’s most inglorious bureaucrats, but he also counted as among its most enduring. His résumé, prior to entering the Kennedy administration in 1961, is known better than that of perhaps any other Cabinet secretary of the postwar period. From studying at Harvard Business School to planning bombing sorties in World War II, he subsequently rose to the role of CEO of Ford Motor Company before his selection as secretary of defense. At the Pentagon he lasted an interminable eight years... Читать дальше...

Thomas Wilner is like any other semiretired person living amid the palm trees in Florida. A lawyer at the giant firm Shearman & Sterling, he returns to Washington, D.C., once a month for a few days to visit the office. But he no longer works any big international cases of the sort that were once his specialty—litigation or trade and policy efforts for foreign governments such as Kuwait and Mexico. At age 77, he now spends much of his time walking, biking, and occasionally golfing. His granddaughter just turned 18... Читать дальше...

On June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Heather Booth had tickets to see To Kill a Mockingbird with a friend in Washington. She could hardly bring herself to go because she was so “horrified and angry,” and because she wanted to spend her time doing what she has spent six decades doing—fighting for justice. On a day like that one, Harper Lee’s novel took on a new significance for Booth. It’s OK to kill a jaybird, she explained, because jaybirds are aggressive. “But it’s a... Читать дальше...

In at least one sense, there’s nothing truly objectionable with the premise of “America Is in Denial,” Mitt Romney’s latest column for The Atlantic. As the Republican senator and former GOP presidential nominee fairly argues, Americans are, in many ways, trapped in a state of denial about the state of the country.