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This latest edition opens with an editor's note by Charles Kesler about the midterm Republican "red wave" that never was (except in Florida!), and what this might foretell for the 2024 presidential election. ("The Red Wave Reconsidered")
In his sobering cover essay, Hillsdale College lecturer and Claremont Institute senior fellow Michael Anton recalls how close the United States came to a nuclear exchange in 1983. “It would be ironic indeed,” he concludes, when considering lessons for today’s present crisis with Russia over Ukraine, “if today’s leftists were to blunder (or maneuver) us into a nuclear confrontation that the alleged superhawks of 1983 managed to avoid. For we seem to be replaying many of the events of four decades earlier.” ("Nuclear Autumn")
Among our other essays, Jeffrey Anderson asks why the same elites who invoke “our democracy” are so hostile to our Constitution ("'Our Democracy', Not Our Constitution"), Bradley C.S. Watson praises Justice Clarence Thomas’s dismantling of substantive due process ("Restoring the Constitution"), senior editor William Voegeli explores the conundrum of economic inequality ("Leveling, Up and Down"), and Algis Valiunas looks back at Aristophanes’ bawdy genius ("Taking Aristophanes Seriously").
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