In Search of Anti-Semitism

Among those authors considered politically incorrect, and even those considered really politically incorrect, Kevin MacDonald holds a special place of honor or shame. A feature ...

An Email from Purgatory

In my ongoing role as National Review's Metaphysical Editor at Large, and despite my sporadic access to email, I shall strive to report from time to time on the doings this side ...

Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?

By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community ...

On Loving to Hate the South

The Confederate flag has become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational ...

Mind the Gap

President Obama recently offered up his solution to America's educational deficiencies, notably merit pay for teachers, more early childhood intervention and national standards, ...

Fault Lines of the World Order

For a few fleeting, horrifying moments this past week the fault lines that underlie the global economic crisis erupted into plain view. With deft and quick effort leaders in ...

AIG Bonuses Are a Ruse

There have been many different takes on the controversy over the stimulus money going toward AIG bonuses, everything from the general public not understanding corporate payment ...

It’s Time to Let Go of NATO

“In 1877, Lord Salisbury, commenting on Great Britain’s policy on the Eastern Question, noted that ‘the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of ...

Barney’s Bitches

Members of the Congressional committee investigating the insurance giant A.I.G. can certainly posture. The righteous roar rising from those quarters drove home the vast ...

Abortion and Abolition

In a recent column for InsideCatholic.com, the generally admirable Catholic politician Lew Lehrman makes the case for invoking the Abolitionist movement as the historic precedent ...

In Search of Right-Wing Gonzo

or Why Culture11 Sucked So Bad. Bob Barr was eating a chocolate-dipped soft-serve ice cream cone from Dairy Queen. I was driving him to Raleigh-Durham International Airport after ...

War and the Neoconservative Mind

Commenting in a new book on Abraham Lincoln, former president Jimmy Carter observed "(Lincoln) ignores the fact that the tragic combat might have been avoided altogether, and that ...

Containing Jihad

As the Obama administration tries to replicate the surge in Afghanistan and expands actions in Pakistan, U.S. strategic planners would do well to read Andrew Bacevich's excellent ...

What Happened to the War on Terror?

From the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until the economy took a turn for the worse during the election, the "€œWar on Terror"€ was the defining issue of the Republican Party. ...

Going Weimar

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency,” said Lord Keynes. Ben Bernanke disagrees. A student of the Depression, the Fed chair ...

State of Revolution

After our most recent Republican president took unprecedented liberties with the executive branch, and after the current Democratic president has promised central planning, some ...


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