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Making Sense of the Fertility Frenzy

I had a quick catch-up today with Jennifer Lahl, a nurse by training, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She is a powerhouse of...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Reagan’s Would-Be Assassin Speaks Out After 45 Years

Ronald Reagan is in the news again. This week was the 45th anniversary of his signing the famous Kemp–Roth tax cut at his beloved Rancho del Cielo...

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John Fund

From Noah, John, Luke, Paul & Mary to Cora, Dawson & Callan

I wish Cora, Dawson, and Callan could somehow meet Noah, John, Luke, Paul, and Mary. Perhaps they have. Those would be eternal encounters of the sort...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

A Regicidal Proposal for Aircraft Carriers

The U.S. Navy's capital ships should not bear the names of politicians. Dead, living, or vegetative, a president or congressman should not have...

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Luther Ray Abel

Blinded by AIPAC

The Washington Post eventually came to its senses, but not before all the wrong people saw how it characterized the race to replace former...

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Noah Rothman

The Causes of Our Future Debt Crisis

In a previous post, I outlined the causes of our existing national debt, which now stands at $40 trillion. Here, we will look into the not-so-bright...

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John R. Puri

Are Populists Winning the Economic Debate?

The fight between government intervention and free markets continues to rage within the Republican Party, particularly with the rise of right-wing...

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Nr Staff

Improving by Degrees: NR’s October Issue Is Out

It’s that time of year. A friend texts a picture of one red leaf on a maple tree, with a sad-face emoji. Your after-dinner walk is now a race with...

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Jessica Hornik

Let’s Preserve Civics Education Programs

In a long overdue counterattack against “progressive” thought control in our colleges and universities, some schools have established programs for...

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George Leef

The DSA’s Leaders Are Tireless in Their Avoidance of Honest Work

Readers, allow me to introduce you to one Gustavo Gordillo. Young Gus may be a familiar face to some of you already, seeing as how he is co-chairman...

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Jeffrey Blehar

About Alternatives to IVF

We are not all in the same office, most of us NR writers. So Abigail and I weren’t talking about human reproduction at the water cooler earlier....

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Should Suicide by Self-Starvation Be Grounds for Hospice Care?

The other day, in response to the British Medical Association requiring doctors to participate in VSED (voluntary stop eating and drinking) suicides,...

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Wesley J. Smith

Our Keynesian Failure

In a post yesterday, I noted that recession responses contributed mightily to our now $40 trillion national debt. These included the stimulus packages...

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John R. Puri

The Shameless, Unrelenting Scandal of Women’s Medicine

I started a rant last week in The Lifeline: Not only do women not know about their own fertility — something I will safely generalize — the whole...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Final Thoughts on IVF Objections (for Now)

Last week, I wrote a short post opposing IVF. After receiving firm pushback in the comments, I responded to some of the most common objections in a...

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Abigail Anthony

Mamdani’s Bodega Bailout

New Yorkers were treated to a vivid illustration of the delusions fueling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to get his city-run grocery stores up and...

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Noah Rothman

Trump: North Korea ‘Has 57 Very Powerful Nuclear Weapons’

A point about President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that didn’t fit in today’s Morning Jolt: On Wednesday, Trump said: I get along with...

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Jim Geraghty

College Entrance Exams Shouldn’t Be a Political Issue

Remember taking the SAT or the ACT when you were in high school — the tests that colleges used to help decide if you had the academic preparation...

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George Leef

The Lapsed Atheist: Charles Murray Makes the Case for God

For most of his life, Charles Murray was a casual agnostic who assumed smart people had left religion behind. Now he’s not so sure. Murray joins...

19.08.2026 5

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Peter Robinson

Don’t Fall for Fake Polls

Readers, a quick thought: Have you noticed that primary polls seem to be garbage lately? Remember Abdul El-Sayed’s double digit lead over Haley...

19.08.2026 5

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Jeffrey Blehar

China’s Industrial Food Revolution

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph dedicates his most recent column to the latest Chinese long-term plan, which envisions China acting to begin...

19.08.2026 6

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Zelensky’s First Serious Political Challenger

Mykhailo Fedorov, the popular former defense minister who was dismissed from his position last month, has released a video calling for wartime...

19.08.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Origins of Our $40 Trillion National Debt

This week marks an ignoble milestone: America’s national debt is crossing $40 trillion for the first time, months earlier than was forecast....

19.08.2026 6

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John R. Puri

Trump’s Iran Strategy May Actually Be Working

The “rhetoric” coming from both sides of the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has “caused considerable confusion and doubt,” CNN’s David...

19.08.2026 6

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Noah Rothman

Sailing Away from Deterring China

The USS George Washington is leaving its mission near Japan to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln which has been deployed to the Middle East and whose...

19.08.2026 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Florida Leads the Way on Higher Ed and Workforce Development

It was not so long ago that most Americans thought that college was for the smart kids and, well, too bad for those who weren’t college material....

19.08.2026 6

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George Leef

Propriety Politics

Jon Ossoff took aim at Trump’s personal assistant, Natalie Harp, in a recent viral speech, suggesting that there’s something illicit about the...

19.08.2026 7

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Lauren Veldhuizen

Among Republicans, Anti-Zionism Remains Very Online

Tuesday’s Florida primary results provided yet another example of how the anti-Israel fever that has swept through the Democratic Party remains a...

19.08.2026 7

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Philip Klein

Darline Graham Didn’t Do the Homework

In my years observing American politics, I’ve had the displeasure of witnessing some genuinely mortifying debate performances. I cringed along with...

19.08.2026 5

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Noah Rothman

Florida Democrats Just Made the GOP’s Case for Them

Charlie will no doubt have a more detailed take on last night's seismic political events in Florida. Jeff, workhorse that he is, already has one....

19.08.2026 6

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Noah Rothman

British Medical Association Requires Doctors to Help Patients Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

The subtitle of the revised and updated version of my book criticizing utilitarian bioethics, Culture of Death, is, "The Age of 'Do...

18.08.2026 6

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Wesley J. Smith

The Democratic Socialists Take the Senate Nomination — in Florida, of All Places

This will have to be brief, because the hour is late and pretty much nobody here was prepared to write much of anything about Florida’s sleepy...

18.08.2026 3

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Jeffrey Blehar

Only Trump Gets to Do the Insult Comic Act

All the self-confidence with which Jon Ossoff delivered a pointed barb at Donald Trump — or, more accurately, his relatively unknown aide Natalie...

18.08.2026 8

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Noah Rothman

The China Shock Narrative Is a Myth, Not a Fact

Here’s the narrative: A shadowy, nefarious elite chose to open the U.S. to trade with China in 2000 and 2001, which sparked the loss of a very large...

18.08.2026 5

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Michael R. Strain

The Case for College Choice

One of the better public policy moves in recent decades has been Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), which allow parents to save in tax-free accounts...

18.08.2026 7

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George Leef

Supremes Decline to Revisit Refusal to Examine Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Appeal

With no comment, meaning no reported dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear President Trump’s appeal of the first E. Jean Carroll...

18.08.2026 8

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Have Tariffs on China Really Worked?

Among even proponents of generally free trade, a consensus has emerged that targeted U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods — initiated by the first Trump...

17.08.2026 9

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John R. Puri

What Happens When Teens Stop Working, but Keep Spending

There is a stark disconnect between what the economic figures show on improving living standards and what most Americans feel. On paper, wages and...

17.08.2026 8

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John R. Puri

A Republican Opportunity on Health Care

If you look at the list of Senate cosponsors of Medicare for All, you’ll see that 17 of the 18 come from states that Kamala Harris carried in 2024....

17.08.2026 10

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Colleges Against Books

Man bites dog? I can top that. Just sink your teeth into my headline for some real news. For the moment, I’m not talking about a story you may have...

17.08.2026 10

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Stanley Kurtz

The President Is an Idiot

Donald J. Trump is a vainglorious fool. That can be the only explanation for this truckling praise of North Korea at South Korea’s expense:...

16.08.2026 8

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Luther Ray Abel

The Samurai and the Prisoner: Who Decides Who Lives?

Winter, 1578. An envoy rides into Arioka Castle to tell its lord that his rebellion is arithmetic, and that he has done the arithmetic wrong. Custom...

16.08.2026 10

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Giancarlo Sopo

Identifying the Enemy

I wrote last year about the way in which Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat, led her center-left party to take a tougher...

15.08.2026 10

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Andrew Stuttaford

New England Journal of Medicine Opinion Editor Takes Credit for Ruining Its Reputation

The New England Journal of Medicine still publishes objective scientific articles. But in the last decade-plus, it is just as notable for its hard...

15.08.2026 10

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Wesley J. Smith

Jason Arday Should Never Have Been Allowed High Enough to Fall as He Did

Former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday – who was revealed over the past two weeks to have largely fabricated his life story whilst...

15.08.2026 10

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Jeffrey Blehar

Using Mild Language to Sell ‘Rights of Nature’ Radicalism

The nature rights movement continues to advance into respectability with woefully insufficient resistance. Too many people don't take the threat...

14.08.2026 10

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Wesley J. Smith

Mangione Pleads Guilty in Federal Court

To follow up on this morning’s post, Luigi Mangione did plead guilty today in Manhattan federal court. The Trump Justice Department in the Southern...

14.08.2026 10

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Mamdani Comes for Amazon

On the basis of a proposal from his city council, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is supporting a bill that “would force big warehouses like...

14.08.2026 10

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Nr Staff

Vance on How Republicans Can Fight Socialism

Fox News host Will Cain asked the vice president about socialism's appeal to young people. Vance replied, in part: My warning to my fellow...

14.08.2026 10

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Ramesh Ponnuru

For AOC, the Time Is Now

I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and...

14.08.2026 6

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Jim Geraghty