The Human Cost of Open-ish Borders

A horrific crash happened Tuesday in southern California when an SUV pulled out in front of a truck and got T-boned. Crashes happen every day, of...

This Whole Thing Really Should Be Over by Memorial Day, Shouldn’t It?

It’s a great headline to see: “Biden Expects U.S. to Have Covid-19 Vaccines for All Adults by End of May.” But I hope the Biden...

With this Case, the Court Can Tell Campus Officials They Must Respect Free Speech

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case that’s hard to pronounce but extremely important for free speech on college campuses....

Supreme Court Legitimacy Watch

Dr. Seuss and Copyright

Yesterday, the folks in charge of the Dr. Seuss catalogue decided they’ll no longer be publishing six of his books. These works generally have...

No Escape from Progressive Education

Hostility to private education is a longstanding characteristic of progressivism. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, progressives sought to...

Is the Dam Breaking? Cuomo’s Numbers Slump in New Poll

A new Emerson poll pegs New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating at 38 percent. That put him ten points underwater, with 48 percent of...

Standing Athwart History — and Sin — Yelling Stop: St. Katharine Drexel, National Review , and the Year 1955

Today is what I consider a National Review feast day, for perhaps an odd reason. It’s the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, whose earthly remains are...

Leave Dolly Alone

A few of our friends on the left appear to be unnerved by Dolly Parton. This isn’t because they don’t like her — quite the reverse. They love...

Does Biden Support Conscience Rights for Pro-Life Doctors?

During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say whether the president support conscience...

Joe Biden Makes Another Concession

At the beginning of February, ten Republicans offered a bipartisan COVID-relief bill that was significantly smaller than what Joe Biden wanted....

Biden Administration Backs Bill That Would Force Cops to Stop Women in the Street for No Reason

The Biden administration is now supporting H.R. 1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which among other things contains the “End Racial...

The Atlantic Boosts Assisted-Suicide Doctors, Pushes Euthanasia

The media love to boost assisted suicide. They laud people who commit it — witness their swoon over the late Brittany Maynard — and the doctors...

Did Republicans Cancel Neera Tanden?

Andrew Cuomo, ca. 2006

Jennifer Senior wrote a profile at the time in New York: Whenever anyone makes an argument against Cuomo, it’s generally based not on his...

‘Canceling Cuomo’

Today on The Editors, Rich, Michael, Jim, and Maddy discuss the allegations being leveled at Governor Cuomo, Trump’s CPAC speech, and the uproar...

‘Alzheimer’s Be Not Proud’

I wrote today on the home page about my Mom and Alzheimer’s disease: . . . I’ve come to believe that this crushing disease does not, during almost...

Norms and Abnorms

Two days ago, Trump blasted Biden, at CPAC. Thus was another presidential “norm” — or ex-presidential one — shattered. Is that a good thing?...

Here’s an Idea

The best part of the Golden Globes opening monologue was being lectured about “diversity” by two rich white people from comfortable...

The New York Times Further Smears Donald McNeil

There is, it seems, no limit to the depths to which Executive Editor Dean Baquet, Publisher A. G. Sulzberger, and the rest of the brass at the New...

What the New Navalny Sanctions Ignore

The Biden administration is slapping sanctions on several Russian government officials, in what it claims is a “whole of government approach”...

The Michael Avenatti of Governors 

Charlie has a good post below on the new standard at CNN, where suddenly Chris Cuomo can’t cover his brother now that he’s no longer the subject...

Vermont Education Secretary: ‘I Don’t Generally Need to Understand on a Daily Basis What’s Going On in Schools’

One of the pieces of data that has been particularly difficult to find during this pandemic is how many public-school districts are holding classes...

The House COVID-Relief Bill Funds Abortion and Planned Parenthood

The new round of stimulus spending that the House of Representatives approved last week contains no Hyde-amendment protections and would permit...

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Federal Funding of Abortion

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving federal funding of abortion providers in the U.S. Early last week, the Court granted cert in...

Today’s Phony Panic about Voting

Today’s talking points on the left, judging from the news media and Twitter, are about a Republican lawyer supposedly admitting to the Supreme...

Of Course We’ll Suffer Inflation

“Progressives” maintain that the federal government can spend without limit and not affect the value of the dollar. They have a bunch of lapdog...

GOP Suicide by Civics

There can be no better illustration of the bankruptcy of the Republican education establishment than yesterday’s Wall Street Journal opinion...

Up Next on the Banned-Books List

Colorado Governor Betrays Cattle Ranchers with ‘MeatOut Day’ Declaration

Colorado is a cattle state. The industry brings in billions of dollars a year to Colorado’s economy and is responsible for about 170,000 jobs. But...

‘Obviously’

Chris Cuomo says that he can’t possibly cover the accusations that have been leveled against Andrew Cuomo, “because he is my brother”: >>...

A Reply to Jonathan Last

Jonathan Last has a piece out at The Bulwark arguing that the Biden administration’s schedule could be a little different than its...

Hygiene Socialism on College Campuses

What economics professor Don Boudreaux calls “hygiene socialism” has, as anyone would expect, found favor among college officials. The same people...

The Massacres in Tigray

A few months ago, there were rumors of a massacre of hundreds at the Church of Our Lady Mary Zion in Axum, in northern Ethiopia. It is an area...

Washington Post Publisher: Biden Is Failing His First Major Test of a Campaign Promise

It’s not that surprising that the Washington Post, the paper that employed Jamal Khashoggi, would be particularly disappointed with the Biden...

Let’s Not Forgive Any Student Debt

President Biden has decided against the most radical Democratic demands regarding student college debt (canceling it all, or nearly all of it), but...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today: The Pope & Iraq, Opening Schools & More

1. Catholic News Agency : Elderly religious overlooked in Belgium’s early COVID-19 vaccination programs 2. New York Time s: As School Closures...

Would Romney’s Child Poverty Plan Reduce Abortion Rates?

America’s Vaccination Programs Finally Hit the Accelerator

After a really lousy stretch for much of last week, the pace of vaccinations picked up dramatically over the past three days – 2.2 million doses...

That Hideous Weakness

Alan Jacobs, author of many stimulating books, has been penning stimulating thoughts on his blog about Amazon’s decision to remove Ryan...

Even In Tennessee, Educators Who Don’t Toe the Leftist Line Can be Punished

As I have written many, many times, the leftist takeover of American education is almost total. It’s just as bad in schools in “red” states as...

Why Capital Record Belongs in Your Feed

The launch of Capital Record  from National Review Capital Matters has come with a bang, not a whimper, and it is not too late for you to jump on...