Knights of Columbus Poll Shows Strong Support for Pro-Life Position
This week, the Knights of Columbus released their annual survey on abortion attitudes. By releasing this poll during the week of the March for Life, the Knights of Columbus provide a fine service to...
View ArticleBolton Considering GOP Presidential Primary Endorsement
John Bolton, a respected GOP voice on foreign policy, is considering making an endorsement in the Republican presidential primary.“I’m not the S&P 500 rating system. While I spent most of 2015...
View ArticleNew York Times Sweeps Visa-Overstay Story under the Rug
Yesterday, Mark Krikorian wrote about a Department of Homeland Security report on the number of foreign visitors to the United States who overstay their visas:This matters because an estimated 40...
View ArticleWith Its Jihad Against Ted Cruz, the Establishment Is Playing a Dangerous,...
Earlier this week, I wrote that it looks like GOP establishment figures might break for Trump over Ted Cruz. I had previously thought the establishment would migrate from one of the classic...
View ArticleAnalysis and Argument
Everyone talks about politics. You know who knows about politics, a lot? Fred Barnes. He is Mona’s and my guest on the latest Need to Know. We talk about presidential politics, naturally — with a focus...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: With an Iowa Win and an Establishment Endorsement, Trump...
If Donald Trump handily wins Iowa, he’ll likely receive an endorsement from at least one Republican governor, and those two events could set him on a course to become the “inevitable” Republican...
View ArticleWATCH: Rich Lowry Discusses Anti-Trump Symposium on The Kelly File
National Review editor Rich Lowry appeared tonight on The Kelly File to discuss our symposium, “Conservatives against Trump.” National Review Against Donald Trump
View ArticleForrest McDonald, R.I.P.
Forrest McDonald has died, just turned 89.Forrest was significant as an academic heavyweight — his books on the founding era, E Pluribus Unum and Novus Ordo Seclorum, and his 1987 Jefferson lecture,...
View ArticleHouston, We Have a Problem
National Review was asked by the RNC to partner in the GOP debates. We agreed. Our initial partner was NBC, with whom we were to help moderate the pre–Super Tuesday debate, originally to be held on...
View ArticleFriday links
Update: Roundup of links about snow.Advice from c. 1200: How to Survive the Winter. Related: the World’s Largest Snowball Fight.Something to restore your faith in humanity: Man with stage IV bone...
View ArticleA Ticket for the Ages?
Jokingly — and graciously — Bill Kristol suggests “Nordlinger-Kristol.” But “Kristol-Nordlinger” is negotiable too. We were talking about a third candidacy, one that would offer a Reaganite point of...
View ArticleIn the Coming D.C. Blizzard, Eat the Anti-Cruz Establishment First
From the last Morning Jolt of the week . . . Rep. Pete King: ‘I Don’t See Malice in Trump like I see with Cruz.’For everybody shouting this is now an Establishment newsletter… I’d argue that in...
View ArticleAgainst Defeatism, Against Trump
What if the real problem is defeatism? The Republican establishment has been spooked for some time by a media that puts every objection to Obama’s agenda in the worst possible light, as well as by the...
View ArticleDonald Trump Knows Nothing about NR
In attacking National Review, Trump manages to call us “a dying paper” not once but several times. Er, NR has been a magazine for over 60 years.Second, Trump says William F. Buckley would have been...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Trumps
Trump now:Very few people read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize, but not how to lead.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016Trump in April:.@NRO Really important...
View ArticleNot Only Irresponsible, But Incompetent
The Daily Mail:The German government is unable to say where more than half of the one million asylum seekers allowed into the country have ended up, MailOnline can exclusively reveal. Government...
View ArticleMarco Rubio and Jeb Bush Respond to NR’s #AgainstTrump Editorial
Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, in separate appearances on Fox News this morning, reacted to National Review’s #AgainstTrump editorial and symposium with praise for NR and critiques of Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleChristie Heads Back to New Jersey for Blizzard Response
Last night, Chris Christie got a little grief about his campaign schedule…So, Christie’s home state is in the bullseye of a blizzard, and he’s staying in NH. Guess we’re done criticizing Rubio’s work...
View ArticleListen to the Silly Academic Bias — Professor Hints That Ted Cruz's 'New York...
A friend of mine, former Arizona state representative Adam Kwasman, forwarded me the recording below. According to Kwasman, the voice you hear is noted criminal law professor Joshua Dressler providing...
View ArticleJonah Goldberg: Trump 'Up Until 3 A.M. Tweeting Like a Little Girl' About Our...
Jonah Goldberg, appearing today on Fox News’s The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, responded to Donald Trump calling National Review ”a dying paper” that “not very many people” read. Watch his...
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