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The issue includes essays and reporting on asylum policy, Ukraine’s battlefield changes, an unfolding geopolitical crisis, and scrutiny of a Cuban atrocity. Regular columns address politics, books and reviews, urban affairs, grammar, poetry, and political and cultural analysis across multiple contributor perspectives.","Running the Border  \nDan McLaughlin on our obsolete asylum laws  \nUSA $10.99  \nSEPTEMBER 2026 NATIONALREVIEW .COM  \nBethe hope around the  \ncorner.  \nWe tend to think of a neighbor as just someone who lives nearby. The Gospel redefines “neighbor” not as someone familiar or like you, but as the one who acts with mercy. We, in the Catholic Charities network, believe being a neighbor is something bigger still. It means showing up and sticking around. Across distance, differences, or discomfort. When neighbors help neighbors, hope blossoms.  \nFind and support your local Catholic Charities agency at PeopleofHope.US  \nTHE WASHINGTON POST / GETTY IMAGES  \nVOLUME  \nLXXVIII, NO . 9  \n| CONTENTS  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| FEATURES\u003Cbr>23\u003Cbr>Asylum for America Rethinking our humanitarian immigration policies\u003Cbr>by Dan McLaughlin\u003Cbr>26\u003Cbr>Resilient Ukraine Notes on a changing battlefield\u003Cbr>by Andrew Stuttaford\u003Cbr>29\u003Cbr>Something Is Going to Happen\u003Cbr>The gathering geopolitical crisis by Daniel Foster\u003Cbr>33\u003Cbr>‘Murder in the Skies’Uncovering the truth behind a Cuban atrocity\u003Cbr>by Jack Crowe\u003Cbr>37\u003Cbr>Keynesianism at 90\u003Cbr>An economic theory for its time, not ours by Scott Sumner\u003Cbr>41\u003Cbr>Fine Print\u003Cbr>The future of literacy, literature, and liberal democracy by Dominic Green\u003Cbr>DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS\u003Cbr>2 CONTRIBUTORS\u003Cbr>4 THE WEEK\u003Cbr>16 THE LONGVIEW Rob Long\u003Cbr>52 ATHWART James Lileks\u003Cbr>57 THE BOOKSHELF Vahaken Mouradian\u003Cbr>65 CITY DESK Richard Brookhiser\u003Cbr>66 GARNER THE GRAMMARIAN Bryan A. Garner\u003Cbr>67 POETRY Edmond Rostand, trans. Timothy Sandefur\u003Cbr>68 HAPPY WARRIOR Mary Katharine Ham | OUR SPACIOUS SKIES\u003Cbr>44\u003Cbr>Charlie and Luther’s Hollerin’ Neon Dixieland Whizzbang Adventure\u003Cbr>The star-spangled duo gambols from Appalachia to the Bayou by Charles C. W. Cooke & Luther Ray Abel |  |\n|  | ARTICLES\u003Cbr>13 AUTHENTICALLY BAD How we get shameless candidates\u003Cbr>by Jim Geraghty\u003Cbr>15 ABOLISH THE ODNI It doesn’t serve the national security needs it was designed for\u003Cbr>by John R. Bolton | 18 FIGHTING THE NEW ANTISEMITISM The old approach isn’t working by Melissa Langsam Braunstein |\n|  | BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS\u003Cbr>53 WISTFUL WYSTAN Joseph Epstein reviews Auden, by Peter Ackroyd\u003Cbr>55\u003Cbr>CHRONIC MELANCHOLIC James Rosen reviews Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth, by Michael Anton\u003Cbr>58\u003Cbr>SHEDUNNIT\u003Cbr>Erich Prince reviews Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder, by Theodore Dalrymple | 60 POINTS OF SALE Charles Fain Lehman reviews Moral Economics:\u003Cbr>From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work, by Alvin E. Roth\u003Cbr>62\u003Cbr>TOO BAD TO BE TRUE Martha Bayles reviews the Netflix series Beef\u003Cbr>63\u003Cbr>THE DEATH OF\u003Cbr>THE AUTEUR\u003Cbr>Ross Douthat reviews A Sudden Flicker of Light:\u003Cbr>A Revisionist History of Movies, by David Thomson |\n\nNational Review (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published monthly by National Review, Inc., at 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, N.Y. 10036. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices.© National Review, Inc., 2026. Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to Editorial Dept., National Review, 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, N.Y. 10036. Address all subscription mail orders, changes of address, undeliverable copies, etc., to National Review, Circulation Dept., P.O. 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