Perhaps it’s just that secret.
Comments
Just be sure and bring some recent issues of NR along.
Most Popular
The McCabe-Stockman Lesson: In Politics, Clean Up Your Own Nest First
One of the hardest things to learn in politics is that just because you agree with someone and he is on “your team,” that doesn’t mean you can trust him, accept what he says at face value, or know for certain what’s in his heart.
Good character is often independent of ideology. Just as we must guard ...
Read More
Our Cultural Crisis: A Kirkian Response
Editors’ note: The following article is adapted from a speech the author delivered at the Heritage Foundation on March 14, 2018.
Few would dispute that we are in the middle of a grave cultural crisis. A despairing conservative critic wrote: “We are on the road to cultural disaster.”
He placed the ...
Read More
Everyone Should Agree: Aliens Who Commit Crimes Shouldn’t Be in This Country
The Trump administration’s efforts to get convicted criminal aliens off of our streets and out of the country was dealt a setback this week, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A majority in Sessions v. Dimaya held that a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) used to deport criminal aliens was ...
Read More
An Enduring Error
Editor’s Note: The following piece originally appeared in City Journal. It is reprinted here with permission.
Fifty-one years ago, in July 1967, in response to an explosion of rioting in poor black urban neighborhoods around the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the National Advisory ...
Read More
Confirm Pompeo
What on earth are the Democrats doing? President Trump has nominated CIA director Mike Pompeo, eminently qualified by any reasonable standard, to be America’s 70th secretary of state. And yet the Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have perverted the advice and consent clause of the Constitution into a ...
Read More
The Mournful, Magnificent Sally Mann
‘Does the earth remember?" The infinitely gifted photographer Sally Mann asks this question in the catalogue of her great retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. On view there is her series of Civil War battlefield landscapes, among the most ravishing works of art from the early 2000s. Once sites ...
Read More
Broward County Sheriff Faces ‘Vote of No Confidence’ from Deputies
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, who was scorned for touting his “amazing leadership” following the Valentine's Day shooting in Parkland, Fla., will face a “vote of no confidence” from the union representing his deputies.
The electronic vote, which will begin Friday night and remain open until ...
Read More
James Comey’s Inadvertent Admission
The good folks at the Republican National Committee awaken and realize that perhaps former FBI agents make more compelling critics of James Comey than, say, Maxine Waters.
Yesterday afternoon brought the first excerpts of James Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty, and we were expected to run around in ...
Read More
It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s
The thing to understand, what has always been the most important thing to understand, is that Jim Comey was out in front, but he was not calling the shots.
On the right, the commentariat is in full-throttle outrage over the revelation that former FBI Director Comey began drafting his statement exonerating ...
Read More