Conservatives in the Crosshairs
It’s been only two days since a murderous rampage left six dead — including a nine-year-old child and federal judge John Roll — and 14 wounded, including Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle ...
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1648 and All That
What should you look for in a top-level diplomat? Brains? Yes. Discretion? Assuredly. An equable temper, or at least façade? Without doubt. (Surtout, said Talleyrand, who knew something about the ...
The West’s Burden
I have always regarded guilt as an overrated emotion. I am not, nota bene, speaking about genuine repentance, through which one acknowledges a fault, makes what amends one can, and ...
Professor of Contempt
With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — ...
Professor of Contempt
With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — ...
A Dutch Master Rediscovered
In his classic essay “Of the Standard of Taste,” David Hume asked how we could tell whether a given work was a masterpiece. “Durable admiration” was the criterion he offered. ...
Degrees of Honor
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the June 6, 2005, issue of National Review.
Most colleges that grant honorary degrees would endorse the sentiment, expressed by a Cambridge University spokesman, that ...
Death of a Liberal God
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the March 14, 2005, issue of National Review.
Attention must be paid to the attention that’s been paid to Arthur Miller, playwright, darling of the ...
W. & Fukuyama
As a rule, differences among inaugural addresses are like genetic differences among mammals: small but telling. We share 99-point-something percent of our genes with chimps. Nevertheless, the differences between us ...
A Sad Falling Off
EDITOR’S NOTE:
This article appears in the July 26, 2004, issue of National Review.
In 1891, Henry James meditated on some of the difficulties newspapers and magazines faced in attempting to ...