National Review Online is exceptional in almost every imaginable way — the contributors range from National Review regulars to major politicians in the news to freelance public commentators. On any given day, topics as varied as the federal debt, Afghanistan, and left-right culture wars are covered.

NRO publishes libertarians, paleocons, neocons, centrist Republicans, religious and cultural traditionalists, and maverick independents — the strength of the argument not the bumper sticker or party line of the author is the common denominator.

There are no flashy tabloid pictures, no Hollywood break-ups, no scantily clad models — in lieu of sensible writing — on the margins to lure in readers; the readability and the logic of the essays are the only draw.

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— NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author most recently of the just-released The End of Sparta, a novel about ancient freedom.