Outpost Man Bear Pig — After the AK rounds cracked over the sandbags, Sgt. Robert Kightlinger, 23, of Jackson, Calif., muttered “Insolent bastards” and led a dozen Marines and Afghan ...

Ecuador is not a banana republic; it is a bananas, shrimp, flowers, and oil republic. Those products are the country’s main exports, and earnings from them have declined as a ...

When traveling far from California, I, like many residents of the state, still have a bad habit of marking off the days until I can return home. Even in its ...

On Inauguration Day 1989, National Review gave a celebratory dinner in Washington at which the guests included Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bill Safire, and the Soviet ambassador and his wife. Contrary to ...

The history of America’s founding has been well taught in elite American universities for 50 years. That is thanks to a great cohort of scholars — Douglass Adair, Edmund Morgan, ...

This book says we can expect, in the near future, the loss of American preeminence, the fall of the West, and the global dominance of a Chinese civilization-state. China will ...

If H. G. Wells had decided to send his Time Traveler to report on the early restaurants of New York, I doubt he could have provided us a much better ...

On the day I was born, The unalterable stars altered. If I decided to sell lamps, It wouldn’t get dark till the day I died. Some stars. Whatever I do, I’m a failure before I ...

Here Comes the Sun Lamar Alexander is correct to be concerned about the potential destruction of the environment in “Fisson, Baby, Fission!” (November 2). He is right about the benefits of ...

‐ Bad election news for Republicans: Now they have to govern New Jersey. ‐ Presidents have been complaining about the press since George Washington. Smart presidents, also since Washington, do their ...