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Friday, December 28, 2012

Ben Stein’s Diary

A Letter to a Friend in Prison

Ben Stein | 12.28.12

Here’s a little of what’s been going on on the outside.

Special Report

The Father, Mumford & Sons, and the Holy Spirit

Daniel J. Flynn | 12.28.12

The controversial Christianity of a hot-selling band has rock critics running amok.

Feature

O’Malley’s Tin Whistle

George Neumayr | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

The ambitious governor of Maryland stumbles toward 2016.

In the Colosseum

Lessons Learned

Jon Kyl | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

About to leave the Senate after three distinguished terms, Arizona’s Jon Kyl offers some parting thoughts.

The Energy Spectator

Big Wind Meets an Ill Wind

Peter Hannaford | 12.28.12

The answer to our electricity needs is not blowin’ in the wind.

Car Guy

Speed Limiters, Too?

Eric Peters | 12.28.12

From gun control to car control and more.

Another Perspective

We Are All Mayans

Frank Schell | 12.28.12

Even Joe Biden, who would head the commission about how we got it all wrong.

Flashback

The Year in Review: Dec. 1987

Joseph Sobran | 12.28.12

(Editor’s Note: The passing of a year calls for reflections and predictions, some somber and serious, others less so. In 1987, writing in our 20th anniversary issue, Joe Sobran imagined a future 20 years down the road that included President Pat Buchanan and Supreme Court Justice Jerry Falwell. Here in 2012, similar conversations might occupy a few minutes between the champagne and the martinis. What might — or might not — the world look like two decades hence?)

Feature

The Year in Review

Joseph Sobran | from the December 1987 issue

Ben Stein’s Diary

Once There Were Greenvilles

Ben Stein | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

Your monthly installment, from the print edition.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Streetcar Line

Tornado!

Quin Hillyer | 12.27.12

Agile and hostile in Mobile.

Special Report

Fiscal Cliff Diving

Peter Ferrara | 12.27.12

Republicans will get a better deal if they stop negotiating behind closed White House doors and force the Senate to vote on a plan. In other words, if they follow the Constitution.

Political Hay

Obama’s GOP Tax Collectors

Jeffrey Lord | 12.27.12

Bob Dole in 1982: “We’re just trying to avoid going over the cliff”: Reagan, Kemp, and “tax the rich.”

The Current Crisis

Churchill and Company

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.27.12

Paul Reid completes William Manchester’s work in excellent, memorable fashion.

Eminentoes

Liberals Who Cling to Their Guns

Aaron Goldstein | 12.27.12

Next thing we’ll learn is that they’re big on designer guns.

A Further Perspective

Random Thoughts

Thomas Sowell | 12.27.12

On Christmas, guns, economics, and war.

Buy the Book

The Great Bill Rusher

Peter Hannaford | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

An excellent portrait of National Review’s founding publisher.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Another Perspective

The Sentimental Side of Bad Santa

Sean Higgins | 12.26.12

Just the tonic for a bad Holiday hangover.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Loose Canons

The Politics of Gun Control

Jed Babbin | 12.24.12

Or how the Republicans have become the New York Jets of political Washington.

Streetcar Line

Simply Christmas

Quin Hillyer | 12.24.12

Celebrating no great new insights.

Political Hay

An Elite That Still Reject Him

J.T. Young | 12.24.12

Tolerating Jesus only if he’s not the Son of God.

Special Report

Candles in Solidarity

Paul Kengor | 12.24.12

Christmas 1981 — Ronald Reagan on the Christ child and the media.

A Further Perspective

Lessons From Scrooge

Nicole Russell | 12.24.12

A Christmas Carol offers guidance for our lives this season — and year round.

The Nation’s Pulse

Thankful for Christmas Commercialization

Mark Tooley | 12.24.12

Joining the Apostle Paul who declared, “Whether in pretense or in truth Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.”

Ben Stein’s Diary

No More Newtowns

Ben Stein | 12.24.12

But that will require really loving our children. Plus: He called me “Benjy.”

Sports Arena

Quarterback Quandaries

W. James Antle, III | 12.24.12

Tim Tebow is not the only NFL QB to have been treated shabbily this season.

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