Arias, Scandals, Analysis, and Rants

On Friday, I recorded podcasts with two formidable women — very different from each other, but each brilliant, and a leader in her field. My Q&A...

Jay Nordlinger

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Helen DeVos, RIP

Approximately a year ago, I had the honor to offer a eulogy to Lee Hanley, a conservative philanthropist who left a mark on behalf of freedom and...

Jack Fowler

20 yesterday

Special-Interest Politics: Real-Estate Lobby Edition

Richard Rubin of the Wall Street Journal tweeted this quote from Doug Holtz-Eakin this week. .@djheakin: “If you hear someone say, ‘I can’t...

Veronique De Rugy

30 yesterday

Trump’s Call with a Soldier’s Widow

I’ve said in the matter of the Trump’s call with the widow of Sgt. Johnson that it’s hard to know what to think without hearing the call. Well,...

Rich Lowry

50 yesterday

What Real Resistance Looks Like: A Lesson from Malta

While the self-styled “Resist” movement in the United States is fond of declaring Donald Trump is “literally Hitler” and fancies itself as...

Carrie Lukas

30 yesterday

Seeing Stars

Over the years, I have often said, “It’s not that William F. Buckley Jr. taught me what to think, it’s that he helped teach me how to think.”...

Jay Nordlinger

20 yesterday

Fighting to Retake Higher Ed in Wisconsin

The Left used to talk all the time about the need to “reform” everything, but now that they’ve been in the driver’s seat in many places, the...

George Leef

20 yesterday

Senator Paul Is Right about Government Spending

Senator Rand Paul is getting a lot of grief for his complaint that the budget resolution going through the Senate right now is busting the...

Veronique De Rugy

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On Representative Wilson’s Cynical Slander of General Kelly

Per the terminally naïve Chris Cillizza: On Thursday afternoon in the White House, chief of staff John Kelly laid into Florida Democratic Rep....

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Freedom Partners All in against Corporate Welfare

Here’s the commercial FP is airing as part of the tax-reform fight:

Jack Fowler

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Friday links

This short 1901 film has some surprisingly impressive special effects: The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match. The Mathematics Of Measuring Cups....

Debbywitt

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The Out that Trump Never Permits Himself

I know I’ve said the condolence controversy should go away, but since it isn’t, allow me to make another point. We don’t know what exactly was...

Rich Lowry

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Wanted: An Intern

I’m looking for an intern in our New York office to help with research and administrative work for a book project. If you are interested, please...

Rich Lowry

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President Trump Should Visit the DMZ in Korea.

From the last Morning Jolt of the week: President Trump Should Visit the DMZ in Korea. President Donald Trump should visit the Demilitarized Zone...

Jim Geraghty

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Ex-Im Cronyism Redux

If you look around, you’ll see that corporate welfare is everywhere. Occupational licensing, certificate-of-need laws, farm subsidies, and more....

Veronique De Rugy

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Throw Another Gun Study on the Pile

The Washington Post writes up a new one from a group of researchers centered around Boston University. It finds that “shall-issue”...

Robert Verbruggen

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Republicans Against the 401(k)

Once again, the GOP is behaving as if it believes that it will be running Washington in perpetuity. Scrapping tax ‘breaks’ that have hitherto...

Andrew Stuttaford

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Time for a New Fed Chairman

The establishment is pulling out all the stops to demand that President Trump reappoint Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve Chair. But a new Chairman...

Iain Murray

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The Fall of Raqqa Is a Marvelous, Bipartisan American Victory

In a different time the collapse of ISIS resistance in Raqqa would be a headline-dominating occasion for national celebration. While the war...

David French

300 thursday

Growth and the Fed

George Schultz and John Cogan, two eminent scholars at the Hoover Institution, argue in the Wall Street Journal that the first criterion for a new...

Ramesh Ponnuru

5 thursday

George W. Bush Speaks at Bush Institute Event

George W. Bush delivered remarks this morning at an event in New York. Speaking at the Bush Institute’s “Spirit of Liberty” forum, Bush called...

Theodore Kupfer

9 thursday

Render unto Caesar . . .

I concur with Jonah’s response to Conrad Black’s “Never Trump” column, but I think Jonah leaves out one important objection: Conrad Black is...

Kevin D. Williamson

3 thursday

The Adult in the Room

John Kelly addressed the condolence flap today. Let’s hope his moving, impressive, highly informative statement puts an end to this whole thing:

Rich Lowry

3 thursday

No, Dolphins Could Not Create Our Technology

These days, it is sometimes difficult to discern when “science” ends and ideology begins. This is particularly so when the belief system...

Wesley J. Smith

40 thursday

The Cost of Free Speech

Florida governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in Alachua County ahead of a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the...

Philip H. Devoe

10 thursday

The ‘Never Trump’ Misunderstanding

In the spirit of collegiality, let me begin by saying I find Conrad Black a welcome and useful voice here at National Review. I do not feel the...

Jonah Goldberg

550 thursday

UC Santa Cruz College Republicans Shouted Down

I’ve argued lately that the campus free-speech crisis is escalating. The failure to punish shout-downs of visiting conservative speakers is now...

Stanley Kurtz

200 thursday

What Counts as #NeverTrump These Days?

From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt: What Counts as #NeverTrump These Days? Conrad Black: “The Never Trumpers seem to have retreated,...

Jim Geraghty

50 thursday

Media Matters Fails to Discredit Me

Media Matters must be running low on targets since it chose to go after a piece I have in the Weekly Standard this week urging that Congress repeal...

Wesley J. Smith

10 thursday

The Editors: Executive Power

Check out the latest episode of The Editors, in which Rich, Reihan, Charlie, and Michael Brendan Dougherty discuss heathcare, the Iran deal...

Nr Staff

9 thursday

David Horowitz’s Insightful New Book on the Academic Left

David Horowitz was among the first Americans to grasp just what a malignant tumor academic leftism would be. That’s probably because, as a...

George Leef

30 thursday

‘The Cognitive Dissonance Presidency’

I wrote about Trump’s moving-target views on the Alexander/Murray deal today for Politico: To paraphrase Groucho Marx, President Donald Trump has...

Rich Lowry

10 thursday

About Those Middle Class Tax Cuts

These days, you can’t turn around without hearing someone talk about how the Republican tax cuts shouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class, should...

Veronique De Rugy

30 18.10.2017

The Never Trumpers’ New Strategy

From my most recent NRO article, about the latest anti-Trump strategy: “Recourse to the 25th Amendment would not remove Trump: It would be like...

Conrad Black

10 18.10.2017

Living with the Unsolved Mysteries of Modern American Life

It’s fair to wonder whether the Las Vegas shooting is about to join the ranks of infamous crimes that are solved… but not quite explained. In...

Jim Geraghty

40 18.10.2017

Help Support Those with Intellectual Disabilities

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month, as President Trump recognized in a beautiful statement earlier this month, in which he renewed “our...

Shannen W. Coffin

20 18.10.2017

Knock Down the Taj Mahal?

Americans aren’t the only ones having a dumb national discussion about monuments associated with morally compromised political leaders: In India,...

Kevin D. Williamson

400 18.10.2017

NHS Tyranny Proposal to Ban Smokers, Obese from Surgery

Calling Bernie Sanders! Calling Bernie Sanders. STAT! A serious policy proposal in the UK would ban many surgeries for smokers and the obese. From...

Wesley J. Smith

60 18.10.2017

Realtors vs. Tax Reform

The Republican tax framework leaves the deduction for mortgage interest in place, not because it’s good policy but because it’s politically...

Ramesh Ponnuru

6 18.10.2017

The Condolence Controversy

It might be the stupidest and most unworthy controversy of the year, and that’s saying something. Feeling defensive at a press conference on...

Rich Lowry

6 18.10.2017

The Ann Arbor City Council Is the San Francisco 49ers of Municipal Bodies

Beyond parody:

Rich Lowry

9 18.10.2017

‘This article does not question Piketty’s integrity.’

That’s from the abstract of a new paper by economist Richard Sutch, a disclaimer that may have been included because Sutch is so critical of the...

Theodore Kupfer

1 18.10.2017

ISIS Is Now Caught Between Raqqa and a Hard Place

Good news from the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt: ISIS Is Now Caught Between Raqqa and a Hard Place Outstanding news as the week progresses:...

Jim Geraghty

50 18.10.2017

Democrat Northam Removes Running Mate from Ads to Appease Virginia Union Supporters

As Election Day quickly approaches in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, Democratic candidate Ralph Northam appears to have scrubbed his African...

Alexandra Desanctis

40 18.10.2017

In Defense of ‘the Generals’

Recently there have been a number of quite different critiques from all political sides of Trump’s generals (Kelly/McMaster/Mattis), and also from...

Victor Davis Hanson

40 18.10.2017

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Ex-Im Cronyism Redux

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Republicans Against the 401(k)

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Time for a New Fed Chairman

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Growth and the Fed

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Render unto Caesar . . .

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The Adult in the Room

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No, Dolphins Could Not Create Our Technology

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The Cost of Free Speech

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The ‘Never Trump’ Misunderstanding

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