Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Appearances do not always deceive. We are once again laboring in those fecund if weed-strewn fields where ...

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Tuesday's State of the Union had a non-traditional start: President Trump walked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and did not wait for her to introduce him. The House speaker traditionally introduces the ...