American Foreign and Defense Policy: Between Scylla and Charybdis
Rather than react, we must chart a course.
Everyday Americans: Unknown Unknowns
As I’ve aged, I’ve come to think that landscape is less an emblem of America than are its admirable and unsung people.
Dangers on the Horizon
In these days that in many ways are similar to the years of decadence and blindness foreshadowing the two great wars of the past century, our attentions are focused mainly ...
Indefensible Defense
Continual warfare in the Middle East, a nuclear Iran, electromagnetic-pulse weapons, emerging pathogens, and terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction variously threaten the United States, some with catastrophe on a ...
Indefensible Defense
How we approach China and Russia will determine the security, prosperity, honor, and at long range even the sovereignty and existence of this country.
In Defense of The Book
Two years ago, in complete innocence that I was parachuting into a holy war, I wrote for the New York Times an op-ed piece addressing disparities in the treatment of ...
Without Which Conservatism Is Stillborn
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the December 19, 2005, issue of National Review.
Although some who use Conservatism as an implement may not think so, Conservatism broadly speaking stems from ...
Two Accusations, Rebutted
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article appears in the June 28, 2004, issue of National Review.
In remembering Ronald Reagan with affection and pride, recounting his achievements, and recalling the rare qualities of ...