“If President Donald Trump’s careers in real estate development, television, and now politics have taught us anything, it is that he likes to leave his mark (and his name) on everything he touches,” Christine Rosen writes in the new issue of National Review magazine. “Some of those marks, like the profusion of gilt ornaments and gold, Trump-branded coasters in the Oval Office, will almost certainly be removed by future presidents. Others, like the proposed construction of a White House ballroom or his plan to build a ‘Garden of Heroes’ featuring statues of great Americans, are more likely to become permanent parts of the White House and National Mall.”

This summer marked ten years since Donald J. Trump rode the escalator in Manhattan’s Trump Tower down into American history. Much has happened since then, and much has changed. Trump himself, of course, is famously a ball of energy and a charismatic figure. His qualities — and his foibles — have transformed the United States of America. But not all of the change we see around us, for good or ill, can be attributed to Trump. The reactions, the adaptations, and the adjustments to Trump on the part of his friends, his enemies, our institutions, and the citizenry have also had a profound effect on the country.

Here’s a little more Rosen on how the Trump era has changed our national memory:

National memory is shaped by far more than these historical narratives; it includes popular culture, popular myths, and the public spaces that a country nurtures and that help shape its collective identity. Ceremonies, symbols, monuments, stories: these all become part of a country’s national memory. This is why radicals try to destroy statues of the Founding Fathers and memorials to the past, or to declare a “new founding” for the country in 1619 rather than 1776. It is part of a larger effort to destroy these bonds between past and future generations and thereby seize control of the national story. Doing so allows them to declare a new vision of society “unburdened by what has been,” as former Vice President Kamala Harris was so fond of saying.

For the new, November 2025 issue of National Review, we invited a group of writers to think about “The Trump Effect” on various aspects of our society. In the magazine, you’ll find:

• Andrew C. McCarthy on the rule of law
• Noah Rothman on our alliances
• Dominic Pino on the economy
• Jeffrey Blehar on the media
• Jim Geraghty on popular culture
• The aforementioned Christine Rosen on our national memory
• Jack Butler on Washington, D.C
• Peter Skerry on immigration
• And Rachel Lu on the universities

The November 2025 issue also contains essays on the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, by Yuval Levin, James Lileks, and Daniel Foster, as well as the NR editorial in The Week.

You’ll also find great feature articles by Charlie Cooke on how to think about AI, Mackenzie France on the troubled relationship between the U.K. under Keir Starmer and Israel, and John D. Hagen Jr. on St. Athanasius of Alexandria and the history of the Nicene Creed.

This month’s installment of Our Spacious Skies is by Judson Berger, who visited a Hindu mega-temple in, of all places, New Jersey. And highlights of this month’s Books, Arts & Manners section include Allen Guelzo’s essay on the writings of Frederick Douglass and Graham Hillard’s thoughts on reading the classic novel Watership Down to his kids.

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