Your Cynicism About Politics Is Well-Founded.
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:Your Cynicism About Politics Is Well-Founded.Those of us with memories that can go back a few months will remember that during his presidential campaign, New...
View ArticleThe Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem
The Left defines itself as international. This may explain the otherwise puzzling phenomenon of the Left’s support for Muslim and Islamist causes with which they have nothing in common. It is...
View ArticleJudd Gregg's Judgments
Former Republican governor and senator (and Obama Cabinet nominee) Judd Gregg says he could never vote for Senator Cruz (disclosure) because he is someone of “little character.” But he can vote for a...
View ArticleTrump and the Gender Gap
For several decades, women have been more likely to vote for Democrats than men. A voter’s sex is not particularly predictive of a vote: Race, religion, and marital status matter more. But a gender gap...
View ArticleMike Pence Endorses Ted Cruz — Sort Of
Indiana governor Mike Pence on Friday offered up the most tepid endorsement of the campaign cycle. In an interview with WIBC radio, he announced that he’d be voting for Ted Cruz in Indiana’s primary on...
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On Arbor Day, Who Will Speak for the Trees?
Dr. Suess’sThe Lorax, whence comes the title question, is socialist drivel of the most ignorant sort. But just because Theodore Geisel was a leftist dimwit who described the book as “straight...
View ArticleDear Mainstream Media, Don't You Dare Whitewash Anti-Trump Violence
Last night, anti-Trump protesters rioted in Costa Mesa, California. Yes, rioted. That’s what you call it when “demonstrations” turn into this:From earlier, when protesters were trying to flip the...
View ArticleCan Someone Help Me? I'm Really, Truly Confused About a Campus Issue
Ok, here’s the first item. Apparently the Obama administration believes that universities so super-dangerous that even prisoners are safer from sexual assault than college students:The Obama...
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Poll: Whom Do You Want to Win the GOP Nomination?
Whom should Republicans choose as their 2016 nominee? Take NR’s latest poll and let your voice be heard. Poll: Whom Do You Want to Win the GOP Nomination?
View ArticleWhat’s New? Pussycat!
One of my favorite cartoons shows a couple of cats sitting at a bar, and one of them is complaining that there are a lot of great dog movies, but very few movies with cats in them at all. The other cat...
View ArticlePodcasting at Lightning Speed
Is Jay Nordlinger mournful? Am I? Maybe, but you can’t tell from this week’s supercharged podcast which powers through the news with the speed of a locomotive. We condemn and praise (Boehner, Ferrell,...
View ArticleCruz Snags Ex-Gov Wilson Support At Calif Convention
The odds that the battle for California’s 172 delegates on June 7 will settle the issue of whether or not Donald Trump takes the GOP nomination on the first ballot. So it’s no surprise all three GOP...
View ArticleDream Logic 2016
Political logic can be a lot like dream logic. I recently had a dream of what I understand is a very common type: It was close to the end of senior year in high school, and I had just failed to show up...
View ArticleRolling His Own
Today on the homepage, I begin a series on John Dos Passos— specifically, his 1956 collection The Theme Is Freedom. I wrote an essay on this subject for our current issue. And I’m expanding on that...
View ArticleRemembering the Perpetrators of That Other Terror Attack
The first Morning Jolt of the week begins with a reminder…Remembering the Perpetrators of That Other Terror AttackThis is the five-year anniversary of the conclusion of Operation Neptune Spear, the...
View ArticleGary Johnson Makes His Pitch to #NeverTrump Republicans
Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who is now a Libertarian and running for the Libertarian nomination again, is now making his pitch directly to #NeverTrump...
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Ted Cruz for President
As a conservative who believes in individual responsibility, limited government, free markets, caution in making social changes, and a robust foreign policy, all my adult life I have been a Republican...
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On Foreign Affairs, Trump Sounds a Lot like Obama
Well, I read Donald Trump’s foreign-policy speech from last Wednesday.I tried to be impartial in reading it; I’m a Cruz supporter, but I’m also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and...
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King and Chambers
What would Florence and Whittaker, two of NR’s greatest writers, have thought of each other? Well, they are likely figuring that out now. Oremus.We have a handful of copies of this special collection...
View ArticleStanding Athwart Yelling 'Okay, I’ll Help!'
The caboose on Bill Buckley’s famous line about NR’s yelling-stop mission is this phrase: “at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Yep, we have...
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