Once upon a time, a long time ago and very far away, there was a joke in which four political philosophers — who are all dead now and can’t be ...

John McCain is not a conservative, but I will vote for him anyway. After all, in 1952, conservatives, grumbling that Ohio senator Robert “Mr. Republican” Taft had not been nominated, voted ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the May 9, 2005, issue of National Review. The pro-abortion and anti-abortion forces are warships passing in the night. Their slogans, “pro-choice” and “pro-life,” don’t ...

Before the last leg of the presidential election, Karen Hughes, a longtime adviser to President Bush, had returned to the campaign trail to help the president hone his message, saying, ...