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by | Jan 20, 2022

“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…

by | Jan 18, 2022

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…

by | Dec 19, 2021

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…

by | Dec 12, 2021

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,…

by | Dec 2, 2021

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…

by | Aug 31, 2021

Daniel J. Flynn, The American Spectator’s senior editor and Spectator A.M. newsletter writer, has spent the past two years researching Frank Meyer (1909-1972), an ex-communist turned former senior editor of National Review who was the political philosopher responsible for developing…

by | Apr 6, 2021

Walk with Me: An Invitation to Faith Neal B. Freeman (National Review Books, 65 pages, $20) “The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life…. To become aware of the…

by | Mar 24, 2021

More than a half century ago, amidst the tumultuous ’60s, the great thinker and National Review senior editor Frank S. Meyer questioned what there is for conservatives to conserve. “In a revolutionary age,” Meyer wrote, conservatism “can lead only to…

by | Jul 17, 2020

A More Perfect Union  Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and fortunes in pursuit of “a more perfect Union.” They fought King George III. They fought one another. They fought to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our…

by | Jan 16, 2020

As the reelection of Donald Trump becomes increasingly likely, the Never Trumpers on the political right have found new favorite outdoor sports: cherry-picking and goal-post shifting. The latest practitioner is National Review’s Kevin Williamson. Before I go any further, I…

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