Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is so prevalent at National Review that one of its featured writers, Kevin Williamson, cannot bring himself to give any credit to Trump for the historic Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and Casey v….
The late M. Stanton Evans, who eschewed computers for typewriters and offered the visage not of a TV pundit but rather of a funeral parlor director, just wasn’t made for these times. In the age of the celebrity conservative of…
Sometimes it’s exhausting being a conservative. It’s other conservatives who are exhausting. Perhaps it’s the legacy of the founders of the movement. William F. Buckley, for example, was an incurable pessimist who often found himself dumbfounded at the successful progression…
I was in New Haven this past week for a couple of events at Yale, one of which was a William F. Buckley, Jr. Program debate for a primarily college-age audience on “common good conservatism.” During the debate, I argued…
“What are Republicans for?” Joe Biden asked in his press conference this week. “Name me one thing that they’re for.” Conservatives, sensing their time in the wilderness short, ask themselves, with increasing urgency, the same question: What do we stand…
High-tech billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, has come clean about what has been obvious for the longest time but until now never so clearly stated. In a recent podcast, reported on by National Review, Palihapitiya said “nobody cares” about…
I’m friends with just about every one of the eight people who served as Louisiana’s Trump electors following the 2016 election. I mention this because in the wake of that election, and before the eight convened to cast their electoral…
The late, great mystery writer P.D. James said she knew early on that she had a great interest in crime and mystery. As a very young girl, when she first heard the story of Humpty Dumpty and his great fall,…
Paul isn’t dead. That John and George are does not mean we should rename their band Paul McCartney & The Beatles. One senses that some viewers of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back Disney+ documentary, of which I am not…