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MUSK AND MYRRH Indebted to the camel covering I wore ’on our first evening, with the Oriental mistof Opium by Saint Laurent sprayed on my wrist,I drop the empty bottle, and slide closed the drawer. The...
View ArticleSanders and Trump, Coming on Strong in New Hampshire
From my most recent NRO article, on the campaign after Iowa: “Incredibly, the New York Times, which endorsed McGovern in 1972, expected Reagan to be defeated in 1984, and is utterly unqualified to...
View ArticleIowa Democrats: Hillary Won! … We Think. … Maybe…. If Our Math Was Right.
Today’s Morning Jolt notes that for the second cycle in a row, there are questions about whether the announced winner in an Iowa caucus actually got the most votes:Iowa Democrats: Hillary Won! … We...
View ArticleThere Never Was a 'Libertarian Moment'
Senator Rand Paul is dropping out of the presidential race, a move that has journalists reaching back to 2014, when Paul was leading the polls and people were arguing that he was a good fit for a...
View ArticleTrump: Either Iowa Needs to Re-Vote or Cruz's Results Must Be Nullified
Hey, remember Donald Trump’s gracious, sunny, brief concession speech in Iowa? Yeah, never mind all that.Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh Is Right to 'Really Like' Marco Rubio
Here’s Rush, yesterday, commenting on the Iowa results:And I’m wondering if whoever the establishment prefers in this — everybody says it’s Rubio. I’m gonna tell you something, folks. I’m a lone wolf...
View ArticleTrump's Sour Grapes
I will confess that I was impressed with Trump’s fairly gracious and mature response to his second-place finish in Iowa. The fact that he also stayed off Twitter the night of his loss seemed to...
View ArticleSummer Internship
National Review is accepting applications for its summer internship. The intern will work in our New York office, receive a modest stipend, participate in every part of the editorial process, and have...
View ArticleJustice Breyer’s Globalist Legal Agenda
At The New Criterion, I review Justice Stephen Breyer’s latest, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. A sampling:How to explain the difference between progressive...
View ArticleMisunderstanding the ‘Libertarian Moment’
Ramesh: My take on this question is that most people, including you, are misunderstanding what the phrase “libertarian moment” means. Granted it could be because libertarians themselves have poorly...
View ArticleWATCH: Our Two-Minute Analysis of the 2016 GOP Iowa Caucus
National Review’s Ian Tuttle has a quick analysis of the 2016 GOP Iowa Caucus results: 2016 GOP Iowa Caucus Results
View ArticleBioethicists Okay Three-Parent Babies
Of course they do!A bioethics panel has okayed the eventual manufacture of babies with three biological parents. From the NPR story:“The committee concludes that it is ethically permissible” to conduct...
View ArticleRestoring the First Branch
Everyone seems to agree that Congress has in some respects been dysfunctional in recent years, but that agreement actually masks some deep differences. How is Congress dysfunctional? What is the...
View ArticleCampus Ideologues Double Down on Censorship — Beware the 'Bias Response Team'
Colleges looking for new programs to appease campus radicals are turning to an old idea — the “bias-response team.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has the details:[Bias-response] teams are becoming...
View ArticleMoment of Truth
Thanks, Veronique, for reminding me of the article in which Welch and Gillespie defined the “libertarian moment” as “a time of increasingly hyper-individualized, hyper-expanded choice over every aspect...
View ArticleVaya Con Dios, Rick Santorum
Various media organizations are reporting that tonight, Rick Santorum will suspend his presidential campaign and endorse another candidate.Our Tim Alberta wrote that Santorum was “the next in line that...
View ArticleAcross the Aisle
A, a long-time Virginia Republican, was talking with B, a transplanted New Yorker, Democratic donor big enough to get invited to the White House, and Jewish (it’s relevant). B: “Hillary will bomb in a...
View ArticleA Deep Dive into the Iowa Caucus Results: What Have We Really Learned?
Now that the initial post-Iowa furor has died down, I’ve had a chance to take a deeper dive into the exit polls and overall voting results. A few things stand out.Cruz was incredibly consistent across...
View ArticleGilmore, DuPont . . . and Liddy
I was amused by Jamie Weinstein’s report about speaking on behalf of Jim Gilmore at the Iowa caucuses. I have a similar story to recount, with a twist.First, this caveat: I do not think Jim Gilmore is...
View ArticleCruz Laughs at ‘Trumper-tantrum,’ Says Trump ‘Can’t Debate the Substance’
Ted Cruz unloaded on his rival Donald Trump after the real estate mogul accused him of voter fraud over Twitter. “I wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing Donald has tweeted,” said Cruz,...
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