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Western Discourse Suggests October 7 Achieved Its Political Purpose

I still count it as one of the most astonishing -- and depressing -- facts of history that on October 7, 2023, terrorists broadcast themselves...

yesterday 2

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Daniel Foster

The Drive to Destroy Catholic Health Care in Canada (and Here)

Religious freedom is under assault throughout the West around what I call "do harm" medicine. With doctors now expected to abort babies,...

yesterday 1

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Wesley J. Smith

Ken Paxton’s Less Than Encouraging Comments Behind the Scenes

It is not exactly surprising to hear that, according to an audio of an event with donors in Washington, GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton is...

yesterday 6

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Jim Geraghty

Wisconsin Democrat David Crowley Is an ‘Accomplice’ to Illegal Immigration

Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley does not believe that state and local law enforcement should ever cooperate with U.S....

yesterday 7

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Jim Geraghty

Israel’s Enemies Will Never Forgive It for Refusing to Die

In Israel on October 7, 2023, 1,200 people — including 364 young men and women attending a music festival — were murdered in cold blood in a mass...

yesterday 5

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Jeffrey Blehar

The Trade Deficit Has Nothing to Do with Tariffs

In August, the U.S. trade deficit hit a seasonally adjusted $106 billion, the highest total since President Trump announced his sweeping tariff regime...

yesterday 3

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John R. Puri

The Resilience and Hope of the Israeli People

I just recorded this conversation with author (and occasional contributor here at NR) Andrew G. Doran about the third anniversary of the October 7...

yesterday 4

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Trump Must Remember Why He Was Elected

The GOP panics as midterms loom and Trump’s approval ratings plummet. On yesterday’s episode of The Editors, Rich asks Charlie what advice he...

yesterday 7

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Nr Staff

Teacher Education Done Right

Many teacher preparation programs in the U.S. are hotbeds of leftism. Students are imbued with worthless notions about teaching along with big doses...

yesterday 5

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George Leef

Alito Is No Fan of Baseball’s Ghost Runner Rule

In an exclusive interview with Dan McLaughlin (the first part of which we’re running this morning), the pair discuss a number of heavy topics, but...

yesterday 5

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Philip Klein

French Police Aren’t the Problem

As the rioting in France approaches its third week, and seven days after French authorities stopped pretending to sympathize with the vandals and...

yesterday 4

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Noah Rothman

Boneheaded Halloweeners

Despite a Christian obligation to love one’s enemies, I despise three things in this world: FIBs, jelly-filled donuts, and Halloween’s...

previous day 6

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Luther Ray Abel

How Can We Have a Bad Economy with Record Consumption?

Michael Brendan Dougherty writes that many Americans are reasonably upset with the economy mostly because of higher prices and a diminished path to...

previous day 3

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John R. Puri

Western Europe Next

There's been a great deal of premature talk this year that national populism as a global political force is dying. The electoral whipping...

previous day 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Young Right Wants to Change America. It Might Be Looking in the Wrong Place

A growing group of young Republicans is embracing “post-liberalism,” a political philosophy James Patterson — co-author of Why Postliberalism...

previous day 7

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Eva Terry

Babe Among Wolves: Another Alarm Sounds on the Cruelty of Surrogacy

***Expletive warning. There’s a disturbing video of a man with a baby on his chest that’s been making the social media rounds. The baby appears to...

previous day 3

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Continuing Battle over Standardized Testing

The crowd that hates standardized testing, calling it racist and unfair, was riding high for several years, as school after school dropped the tests...

previous day 4

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George Leef

The Cult of Trump Is Trump’s Worst Enemy

Little else has served Donald Trump as poorly as his own insistence on blind deference and thoughtless fealty from his aides and allies. Once in a...

previous day 5

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Noah Rothman

Usha Vance and the Arms of Men

The impressive reflexes of Usha Vance were on display Monday -- in what has become both an image of a mother doing what mothers do best and an...

previous day 8

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Why Do People Hate Nuns So Much?

Every few years, there is a moral panic about nuns or other religious orders. The government of Ireland is now digging up the graves of children in...

monday 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Raising Interest Rates Isn’t Central Planning Either

Ramesh writes on the Corner: The U.S. has a government-issued currency and a central bank. Maybe we shouldn’t have these institutions, but they are...

monday 6

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John R. Puri

Better Policy from the Fed Isn’t Central Planning

The U.S. has a government-issued currency and a central bank. Maybe we shouldn’t have these institutions, but they are likely to be around for the...

monday 8

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Ramesh Ponnuru

The Billionaire Tax, the Busted Federal Budget, and the Future of the American Experiment

Hoover Institution economist Joshua Rauh examines America’s mounting federal debt and the political obstacles to controlling government spending....

monday 6

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Peter Robinson

Democrats Deliver a Low Blow in Colorado

Since January, the New York Times has tracked at least 35 political advertisements that feature the name “Epstein,” including “many” that...

monday 5

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Noah Rothman

Sudden Evacuation of U.S. Bombers from U.K. and Signs of Iranian Plot

As Jim reports, the U.S. Defense Department on Sunday abruptly evacuated the dozen heavy bombers that were stationed in England at the Royal Air Force...

monday 8

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Re: Undoubtedly 6.8 Percent Is Less than 70 Percent

As Michael allows, I didn’t hide the ball in my original post, nor did I claim that reversing “globalization” qua liberalized trade would by...

monday 6

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Daniel Foster

Universities Need to Integrate AI

Artificial intelligence is a game changer in the world of education. How can universities put it to good use and crack down on bad uses? That’s the...

monday 6

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George Leef

Suddenly, the U.S. Has No B-1 Bombers at RAF Fairford

News from over in the United Kingdom this morning: “Asked on Monday whether RAF Fairford was safe, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said:...

monday 7

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Jim Geraghty

The Rise of Dumb, Anti-Innovation, Job-Saving Laws in Blue Cities and States

Our James Lileks, lamenting the city of Minneapolis requiring that self-driving cars have a $31.50-per-hour non-driver sitting in the driver’s seat,...

04.10.2026 8

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Jim Geraghty

Nature Article Endorses ‘Nature Rights’

The world's two most influential professional science journals probably are Science and Nature. But they no longer limit their jurisdiction to...

04.10.2026 7

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Wesley J. Smith

AI ‘Claude’ Can Never Be a Person

Anthropic is anthropomorphizing its AI program known as "Claude," with the apparent intention of convincing us that powerful computer...

02.10.2026 5

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Wesley J. Smith

The State as Executioner Is a Moral Failure — and Turns Out to Be a Practical One, Too

“Hospital staff are working to save Ms. Pike’s life and to clear the pentobarbital from her system.” This is the most recent update from her...

02.10.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Undoubtedly 6.8 Percent Is Less than 70 Percent

Dan Foster takes the vice president to task for saying he is trying to “undo 40 years of globalization.” Foster retorts, what would that mean? So...

02.10.2026 9

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Nixon Revisited a Half Century After Watergate

The discussion of Richard Nixon’s legacy on The Editors podcast today is fascinating. I also commend Rich’s piece on the homepage, and Charlie was...

02.10.2026 8

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Andrew C. McCarthy

A College Loan Should Do No Harm

The New Republic reports from X, in a piece recirculated from July: President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough...

02.10.2026 8

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Skyler Safriet

Watch: Exclusive Interview with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee recently joined National Review’s Caroline Downey for an exclusive interview to discuss Tennessee’s economy, school...

02.10.2026 5

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Nr Staff

Nix ‘Nixon Nostalgia’

The Wall Street Journal is out with a report about a revisionist historian claiming that the deep state plotted against former President Nixon. Today...

02.10.2026 7

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Nr Staff

What Does ‘Reversing 40 Years of Globalization’ Mean?

The vice president holds with a view of U.S. economic history that claims that globalization was a mistake and that things would be better if it...

02.10.2026 9

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Daniel Foster

Professors’ Union Endorses Far-Left Candidate

The American Association of University Professors is now mainly a leftist political outfit, just like the National Education Association. The latest...

02.10.2026 7

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George Leef

Remembering, and Praying for, Dovie Eisner

As I mentioned in The Lifeline today, there will be a Mass for the repose of the soul of Dovie Eisner, a reader of National Review and friend of many...

02.10.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

What Voters Think about Tariffs

One thing I didn’t mention in my column: An Ipsos poll out this week finds rising familiarity with tariffs that is not turning into rising approval....

02.10.2026 9

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Ramesh Ponnuru

‘Just Say It’s a Genocide’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not even bother to disguise her wholly justified irritation with the far-left agitators who, in the spring of 2024,...

02.10.2026 6

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Noah Rothman

Why the Good Economic Numbers Don’t Matter to Voters

Some Republicans are making the case that the economy is much stronger than the press and the polls make it out to be. Today's column goes into...

02.10.2026 10

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Ramesh Ponnuru

France Is Burning

The schools of France are currently in flames, with the nation several days into a national bout of student rioting: From the quasi-Belgian northern...

02.10.2026 6

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Jeffrey Blehar

Was the Flydubai Hijacking the Latest Iranian Plot Against the West?

Anyone who assumed that President Trump and his deputies were unreliable narrators — and, therefore, dismissed the administration’s early claims...

01.10.2026 4

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Noah Rothman

National Review’s Investigations Shortlisted for Journalism Prize

National Review’s investigations into Washington State were announced as finalists for the Daylight Award, a prize given by the National Journalism...

01.10.2026 10

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Abigail Anthony

Keep the Rate Hikes Coming

The Federal Reserve will decide at the end of October whether to raise interest rates for a second consecutive meeting, most likely by another quarter...

01.10.2026 9

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John R. Puri

We Happen to Be Winning the War in Iran

“There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time.” So observed the gray General Kutuzov in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Napoleon’s...

01.10.2026 9

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Luther Ray Abel

Killing in the Name Of

Charlie’s right: Christa Pike, psycho murderess, should be dead. I’d be suspicious of any moral reasoning that reaches a different conclusion. But...

01.10.2026 9

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Vahaken Mouradian

What Could Possibly Go Right This November?

Over the years here at National Review, I have been constantly amused (and admittedly occasionally frustrated) at how in sync Jim Geraghty and I turn...

01.10.2026 7

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Jeffrey Blehar