Why It Was a Mistake for Salon to Run Its Pedophilia Piece
Charles, I think you offer about as good and generous a defense of that article one could make. But I still have a basic problem with it. Ultimately, the piece follows exactly the strategy one would...
View ArticleAhmed Mohamed Didn't Build a Clock -- and Other Niggling Problems in the...
When I wrote about Ahmed Mohamed last week, I chalked up the affair to a few overzealous authority figures — who have peers all over the country. Just ask Josh Welch.That criticism stands. But as Ahmed...
View ArticleLife Lessons From Ragnar the Viking
It’s football day for me here at National Review. Over on the home page, I’ve got a piece up about leftist efforts to get God out of football. But this post is about football and the perils of greed —...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Ridiculous Spin, and Incredibly Thin Skin
As all the world now knows, Donald Trump didn’t dissent from a questioner last week at a town hall meeting who said the president is a Muslim and seemed to be suggesting we need to round up and get rid...
View ArticleWhat Francis Said in Cuba (and What He Didn't)
With the Pope just landed in the US, it’s worth re-reading what the Washington Posthad to say about his behavior in Cuba and contrast it with what he is likely to say here (my emphasis added):IN HIS...
View ArticleRe: Walker and Pawlenty
An email: “Interesting theory re the missing ‘middle lane’ in the Republican party, but what it doesn’t explain is why the candidate in the left lane usually wins. It can’t just be a coincidence that...
View ArticleAbortion Survivors and the Barbara Boxer Democrats
On Friday the House passed H.R. 3504, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” The bill passed along party lines, except for five Democrats who voted Yea. Now Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse,...
View ArticleBiden Says Abortion Is "Always Wrong"
Joel Gehrke notes that Biden claimed to support Catholic teaching on abortion but not to be willing to impose it on others. He has said this before, and other Catholics who favor legal abortion often...
View ArticleThe Parable of the Nanodegree
A short while ago, Udacity, a for-profit online teaching start-up, was floundering. Its first forays into higher education had yielded mediocre results, and many concluded that MOOCs, or “massive...
View ArticleFive Things that Caught My Eye this Morning (Pope in U.S., First Full Day)
1. About the papal visit:Beyond all the drama of the first canonization ever in our country, the first papal address to a joint session of Congress, his speech at the United Nations to the largest...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees: The U.S. Should Do More
From my most recent NRO article, on the refugee crisis: “Given President Obama’s (completely unintended) role in generating the terrible and pitiful flight of millions of people from their homes in...
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VDH to Be Honored at the NR Institute's 2015 Buckley Prize Dinner -- Join Us
The great Victor Davis Hanson will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. Prize for Leadership in Political Thought at the National Review Institute’s Second Annual Buckley Prize Dinner, this year being...
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Ayatollah Fails Hitler Standard on Great-Power Pacts
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has not risen even to Adolf Hitler’s level after reaching a reputed peace agreement with major world powers.As the late CBS Radio newsman William L. Shirer chronicled in his...
View ArticleThe Mail on Jay (and Monster Kids)
Today, the Daily Mailwrites up Jay Nordlinger’s new book Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. More than a write-up, this treatment is replete with photos and...
View ArticleReport: U.S.-Trained Syrian Rebels Hand Over Weapons to al-Qaeda
First came reports that the multi-million dollar effort to train “moderate” Syrian rebels had yielded only “four or five” fighters still in the field. The rest, apparently, had been routed. Yesteday,...
View ArticleA Veto Threat in Defense of Infanticide
In 2002, Congress passed the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, clarifying that the protections of federal law apply to infants born in the process of attempted abortions, with strong bipartisan...
View ArticleObama's Selective Praise of the Pope Took No Courage At All
Praising the Pope for his writings on climate change this morning, President Obama said the following:Your Holiness, in your words and deeds, you set a profound moral example. And in these gentle but...
View ArticleThe Pope’s Shameful Abdication
Before he arrived here, the pope was in Cuba and, frankly, disgraced himself by effectively giving dissidents the back of his hand. Here was the Washington Post the other day:Pope Francis met with...
View ArticleHillary at 33 Percent Support in Bloomberg/Selzer Poll
When we are finally able to focus in on something other than Donald Trump, we may discover that it is the Democratic primary that is the more interesting of the two. Per Bloomberg:One quarter of...
View ArticleCelebration and Deploration
Mona Charen and I have done a new Need to Know, here. We talk about the pope in Cuba (and the pope in the United States). We talk about Scott Walker (and, by extension, Rick Perry and Tim Pawlenty). We...
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