America’s Abandoned Places
Americans, nervous, aspiring, and perpetually in a hurry, have no patience with antiquity.
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Yale Law School Devours Its Own
New Haven realism was supposed to redeem the nation. Instead it gave us New Haven Nietzscheanism.
The Narrowing of the Elite: Part Two
The gospel of cyber-utopianism and globalist conformity preached by today’s elites is disfiguring the soul.
The Narrowing of the Elite: Part One
A messianic faith in salvation through technology is monopolizing the talent of the nation.
Decent Mediocrity
Michael Knox Beran reviews When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency, by Donald Rumsfeld.
Lion in Winter
Editor's Note: The following first appeared in the June 16, 2008 issue of National Review.
The press notices that followed the announcement that Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been diagnosed with ...
The End of the Clerisy
Richard Aldous tells the story of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in his first-rate biography.
Why We Love McMansions and Other Modern Castles
Man is by nature a castle-craving creature. Human history has been little more than a succession of citadels.