Literary Lady, Complicated Proto-Feminist
Writer and magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale succeeded in 19th-century America, against the odds, as Melanie Kirkpatrick lays out in her new biography.
NR’s Culture Coverage: An Antidote to Cancel Culture
Read, learn, and think about what’s worth preserving and honoring.
Fighting for NR’s Rights — and Yours
Michael Mann’s suit against NR is an assault on all political speech. Stand with us if you you care about your own rights and those of your fellow citizens.
The Summer Ice-Cream Stand
The Italians have gelato; Americans, at least in the corner of New England where I grew up, have the summer ice-cream stand.
The Indispensable National Review
Full-throated defenses of our nation’s foundational principles are only going to get more necessary in the coming years.
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More than Ideology
Donald Critchlow has written a book called “Republican Character” at a time when the phrase sounds almost loaded.
Tocqueville and the Art of Living
How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves.