How Much Does Genetics Explain Who Can Fight Off a Coronavirus Infection?

A new study of groups of coronavirus patients in New York state sorted by race concluded whites were the least infected, with the fewest...

How to Quit without Being a Quitter

About the possibility that Trump could drop out of the race, Jim writes: But it’s really hard to imagine Trump choosing to not run for another...

Repeating It Doesn’t Make It So

Remy Green and Avika M. Cohen have launched a series of articles explaining why the tirelessly reiterated tautology of Justice Gorsuch’s Bostock...

The USMCA Goes into Effect Today

That’s the U.S.–Mexico–Canada trade agreement that replaced NAFTA. The Republican National Committee and others are using the occasion of the...

DeSantis Does End Run Around ‘Nature Rights’

The Florida Democrat Party has a “nature rights” plank in its platform and the movement was actively trying to bring the rights of nature to...

Doesn’t This Approach Seem a Little . . . ‘Low Energy’?

If the United States, led by the executive branch of the government, can get the coronavirus pandemic under control, all sorts of good things will...

Gallup Poll: 64 Percent of Americans Don’t Want Higher Immigration

I’m trolling a little bit with that headline. But at least it has the benefit of being true, unlike the headline Gallup itself went with:...

The Left’s Coronavirus Narrative Is a Myth

To this point, 71 percent more Americans have died in New York nursing homes than have died in the entire state of Florida, which not only has a...

Jaws 45 Years Later

1975 was a pivotal year in Hollywood history for two reasons. First, it just about marks the end of the post-Production Code boom of auteur-driven...

New Gallup Poll Finds Relative Stability in Public Opinion on Abortion

This week, Gallup released some additional results about public opinion on abortion from its annual “values and beliefs” poll. The results...

Can Trump Define Biden as a Tool of the Left?

A Politico story, being boosted by the Biden campaign, says President Trump’s attempt to portray Biden as the hapless plaything of his party’s...

On Espinoza, Palmer v. Thompson, and Looking behind State Law

Michael Dorf asks how the Court’s decision in Espinoza, which prevented the Montana supreme court from “leveling down” to avoid discrimination...

Come On, Trump Is Not Going to Abandon His Bid for Reelection

Mickey Kaus, who voted for Trump because of his hard line on illegal immigration, sees a particularly grim outlook for the Trump reelection...

White Privilege Exists

White privilege exists. It can be seen in this video captured at an anti-police protest in New York, in which white protesters taunt NYPD officers...

Another Thought on Frederick Douglass and the Emancipation Memorial

Last week, I wrote a post about the speech Frederick Douglass delivered at the unveiling of the D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial, also known as the...

The Money Supply Is Growing But Money’s Still Tight

I argued in a recent column that low interest rates, even persistently and very low interest rates, do not necessarily indicate that money is...

‘The Word “Experience” Is Still Good’

Today, I have a piece on the homepage called “Tested (or Not).” It’s about presidential candidates and experience. I take that word “tested”...

‘Slipping and Sliding down the Polls’

This week on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss Trump’s recent polling problems and the Supreme Court decisions handed down this week....

Happy Birthday, Olivia de Havilland

The last of the great Golden Age stars turned 104 today. With her creamy skin and high cheekbones, de Havilland made for a captivating leading lady...

Trump May Soon End AFFH

Last night, President Trump sent out a tweet saying that he may entirely put an end to the Obama-Biden administration’s outrageously intrusive...

Economics Professor: Abolish the Department of Education

Washington is loaded with useless bits of bureaucracy that foolishly meddle where the federal government has no business while at the same time...

Mankiw as in ‘Thank You’

Yesterday, I recorded a Q&A podcast with Greg Mankiw — N. Gregory Mankiw — the famed economist. The name is of Ukrainian origin. It rhymes with...

Twenty-One Things that Caught My Eye Today: Hong Kong, Helping Foster Children, & More (June 30, 2020)

1. Reason : These Women Received a Death Sentence for Being Sick In Prison Hazel McGary is one of three inmates identified by Reason who have died...

China Swallows Hong Kong

Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs

When the Bidexit?

We’re All on Board for Getting Tough with Russia, Right, Democrats?

Cases Are Surging in Some Blue States, Too

Trump’s Challenge in the Polls

Keeping Princeton Open

The June Medical Decision Was Not a Win for Women’s Health Care

Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Discriminate against Religious Schools

Trump Never Would Have Been Pro-Mask

Scale Back Unemployment Benefits

Stephen King’s Boo-boo

Will T Cells Save Us from COVID-19?

Our Millenarian Moment

The Implications of Espinoza

‘A Woman Identified as Male at Birth’

A Word for Thaddeus Kosciuzko

Harvard Reverses Ban on Single-Sex Student Organizations Following Bostock Ruling

Demonstrator Shoots Bystander at Anti-Police Rally in Utah

Biden: Protect Statues of Christopher Columbus

On Tuesday, Joe Biden said that Confederate monuments “belong in museums,” but statues of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Christopher...

Abortion

Manchin Reiterates Support for Senate’s 60-Vote Requirement for Legislation

There has been an increasing amount of discussion among Senate Democrats about scrapping the upper-chamber’s 60-vote requirement to advance...

What Are the Mayors Doing?

Even though there was already evidence of violence and extortion there, earlier this month, Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle defended the Capitol Hill...

FCC Designates Chinese Tech Giants Huawei and ZTE as National-Security Threats

The Federal Communications Commission has formally designated two technology giants closely connected to the Chinese Communist regime as national-...

Pensions: For Whom the Bell Tholes

I posted something yesterday on some of the challenges — to use too mild a word — that are looming for retirees, about-to-be retirees, and...

Uncommon Knowledge: The Case against Revolution with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

As the United States and the world embark on fraught conversations about race, history, law enforcement, and the underpinnings of our very...

UFO or Foe?

UFOs are back on legislators’ radar. What sounds like a tinfoil-hat topic has actually sparked debates among American national-security leaders....

The Supreme Court’s Insoluble Problem

NBA Commissioner Hopes for ‘Mutual Respect’ with China after Row over Hong Kong

Adam Silver, commissioner of the National Basketball Association, said on Tuesday that he hoped to find “mutual respect” between the organization...

Wait, Just Who Is Not ‘Letting Trump Be Trump’?

One of the president’s most devoted defenders, Jeffrey Lord, writes over at The American Spectator: As this is written, the Trump White House is...

Twenty-Five Things that Caught My Eye: SCOTUS & Abortion, the Elderly and COVID-19 & More (June 29, 2020)

1. Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Restrictions The chief justice is right to emphasize judicial humility and to respect earlier...

Passing the Euro

The efforts by the German constitutional court (the BVG) to avoid giving much practical meaning to its (profound) theoretical clash with the...

U.S. Deposits of Rare-Earth Elements Are . . . Not So Rare, after All

This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese government perceives its “its dominance in strategic rare-earth minerals as...

June Medical Is Another Disappointment for Pro-Lifers

In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of abortion providers in June Medical Services v. Russo, striking down a Louisiana law...

The Silent Majority Must Sing

We’ve gone from protests, to riots, to autonomous zones, to attacks on police, to calls to abolish the police, to the destruction of statues, to...

Us ’n’ Them

Today on the homepage, I have a brief essay called “The Curse of Identity Politics.” It was motivated by two events yesterday. Early in the...

Was SARS-CoV-2 Floating around Barcelona in March 2019? Probably Not, But . . .

This not-yet-peer-reviewed study, looking for the coronavirus in wastewater samples, is generating a lot of double-takes in surprise, with the...

Legal Eagle

Orin Kerr is a law prof, a writer, and an excellent talker — as you can hear in my latest Q&A, here. He pronounces his last name “cur,” though...

Employers Must Embrace Viral Testing, Not Temperature Screening

Few trends highlight our desperate need for reassurance than the nearly universal installation of temperature checks in ever more workplace...

Does Anyone Fear a Candidate Who’s Sleepy?

Obviously, if Trump is going to win in November he’s going to have to disqualify Joe Biden, which is going to be much harder than it was with...

What Would Trump Do with a Second Term?

At the moment, not only does no voter know the answer to that question, Trump himself has no idea, either. From an exchange with Sean Hannity last...

Kurt Russell, Call Your Office

I saw this video on Twitter of police responding to a shots-fired call in Harlem and hesitated to tweet about it because I wondered how it could be...

Research Universities Have a Duty to Reopen — but to Do It Smart

So argues Buck Goldstein, who is “entrepreneur in residence” at UNC-Chapel Hill and also a professor in the economics department. The Martin...

NR News Desk Seeks Media Reporter

National Review is seeking a media reporter to join our growing news desk. The ideal candidate will be a news junkie who keeps a constant eye on...

Two Takes on June Medical

Like everyone around these parts, I’m disappointed that John Roberts cast the deciding vote to strike down an abortion law, continuing to apply a...

Golden Years Ahead? Probably Not

It’s a statement of the obvious that savers — many of them retirees — unwilling to be pushed into the stock market, have been badly hit by the...

Roberts vs. Burke

Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the Supreme Court’s liberals today in June Medical Services v. Russo , overturning a Louisiana law that...

Why Conservative Opinions Are Weird

There will be much good and astringent commentary on today’s Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana’s modest attempts to regulate...

Twenty-Five Things that Caught My Eye Today: Religious Freedom Court Victory & More (June 26, 2020)

Join us Wednesday at 3 New York time: What’s Next for America? – a Sheen Center for Thought and Culture/National Review Institute event with...

The Euro Zone’s TLTRO Theater

If a dysfunctional currency union could be saved by ungainly groupings of letters the euro zone would be by now in rude health. One of those...

Before You Grill That Steak, Apply to Be an NR Institute Regional Fellow in Dallas, San Francisco, or Chicago

Granted, you don’t want to be thinking about the fall, the newly minted summer providing barbecue opportunities and other plentiful welcome...

Putting the K in June

Bloomberg: Companies shoring up cash to survive the global pandemic raised funds in the U.S. high-yield market at the fastest monthly pace ever....

D.C. Statehood and the Death of Compromise Politics

The House Democrats’ D.C. statehood vote is, as NR’s editorial notes, just for show: D.C. statehood would require a constitutional amendment,...

‘No Noose Is Good News’

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Maddy discuss the Bubba Wallace non-troversy and the hypocritical difference in coverage given to...