A Portrait of Washington’s Greatness—and His Limitations
A review of First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington, by Peter R. Henriques.
Can Today’s Soulless Institutions Be Revived?
A review of A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream, by Yuval Levin.
Richard Brookhiser’s Give Me Liberty: A Manual for Patriots
A review of Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea.
America’s Abandoned Places
Americans, nervous, aspiring, and perpetually in a hurry, have no patience with antiquity.
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 ...