The World as It Wasn’t
James Rosen reviews The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, by Ben Rhodes.
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The Man in Full
A collection of the late Antonin Scalia's speeches, commencement addresses, and eulogies.
That Magic Feeling
The Beatles changed the sound of music and continue to inspire fans around the globe.
The Champ and Mr. X
‘Not many people,” Malcolm X told the writer George Plimpton in 1964, “know the quality of the mind he’s got in there.” The fiery minister for the Nation of Islam ...
The Champ and Mr. X
A review of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith.
The Long, Hot Summer of ’68
If you were an alert reader of the November 6, 2000 issue of National Review, the conservative journal founded by William F. Buckley Jr., you might have turned the final ...
Buckley, Vidal, and the Long, Hot Summer of ’68
The documentary Best of Enemies suffers the very biases, unstated yet unmistakable, against which WFB aimed from the beginning to stand athwart history, yelling stop.
The Ballad of John and Cyn
‘I really don’t want to be looked upon as some kind of victim,” Cynthia Lennon told me in her low, purring voice. It was 2010, and after a year of ...