David Calling Has Moved . . . to the Corner!
As we move to debut the new and improved redesign of NRO, we want to make readers aware that David’s posts have moved to the Corner. Same great content, new ...
David Calling
Charlie Hebdo Our Duty to Think Freely
All who want to shout “Allahu akbar” or wave the black flag of jihad are presumably interpreting the massacres and hostage-taking in Paris as another major step towards remaking the ...
Europe’s Islam Problem
European governments have become practiced at pretending that their country has no problems with Muslims. The official line, endlessly repeated, is that Islam is a religion of peace, and therefore ...
Why Is the U.K. Funding Iranian Executions?
Senator Dianne Feinstein takes her place in the company of those like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange who have been willing to damage the United States for their own interest. ...
Is France Finished?
I’ve been in France celebrating the hundredth birthday of an old friend of my family’s. World War I had hardly begun when she was born. In World War II, her ...
Mark Strand, R.I.P.
All those years ago, I was invited to teach at the Writers’ Workshop in the University of Iowa. Mark Strand was on the faculty. He looked the way poets are ...
A Legacy of Liberty
William Shawcross is the author of a biography of Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, so-called because her daughter is the present Queen. He was just the person to give the ...
UKIP: A Timely Kick in Britain’s Backside
The two main political parties in Britain, the Conservatives and Labour, have in common the fact that they no longer represent the core vote that has given them their historic ...
The Papa Doc of the Muslim World
Jay Nordlinger of this parish has been writing about Papa Doc, or Dr. François Duvalier, once upon a time the dictator of Haiti whose dealings with his unfortunate subjects made sure ...
Must Middle Eastern Christians Keep Turning the Other Cheek?
Christianity is under attack throughout the Muslim world. Iraq and Egypt still have sizable Christian communities but hundreds of thousands of Christians from both countries have fled abroad. Since Lebanon came ...