IN THE December 3, 2012, ISSUE
The Party’s Problem
The first thing conservatives should understand about the electoral catastrophe that just befell us — and it was a catastrophe — is that any explanation of it that centers on ...
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The Party’s Problem
The first thing conservatives should understand about the electoral catastrophe that just befell us — and it was a catastrophe — is that any explanation of it that centers on ...
Beyond Tax Cuts
Everything you think you know about the decline of the U.S. economy is wrong. The United States is today the world’s largest manufacturer, as it long has been. Depending on ...
O Fortuna
Conservatives are natural pessimists, based on a realism about fallible human nature that fuels our opposition to the coercive utopianism of the Left. The Founders shared this pessimism about human ...
Amnesty Is No Solution
Barack Obama’s popularity with Hispanics — he won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote — has triggered a stampede among Republican political and opinion leaders to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”
The ...
Obama’s Coddled Elites
Pity Mitt Romney. He couldn’t get even the 1 percent.
Not only did President Obama carry eight of the nation’s ten richest counties as measured by average annual household income; ...
Against the Tide
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Who Cares?
Almost anyone who has studied the Declaration of Independence has been told at some point that, in reality, it offers Americans the sober promise of life, liberty, and property rather ...
The Activism to Come
Presented the gift of two Supreme Court seats to fill in his first 15 months in office, Barack Obama appointed liberals Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Given their relative youth ...
Redeeming Obamacare
Sometimes it is hard to accept defeat. On December 18, 1974, Teruo Nakamura, the last known holdout from the Imperial Japanese Army, finally surrendered to Indonesian authorities. It may take ...
What Would Jindal Do?
On Tuesday, November 13, just one week after a dispiriting presidential election for the GOP, reporter Jonathan Martin of Politico published an interview with Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Churchill’s Anglosphere
Sir Winston Churchill’s four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples may not be on many lists of must-read books anymore, but those of us who spent rainy afternoons and quiet evenings ...
Tried in the Fire
‘It is difficult, and in some quarters thought to be almost tasteless, to talk sense about Lincoln,” observed commentator Alistair Cooke. “But we must try.”
Try though we might, few topics ...
A Dawn of Awareness
A high-school history teacher looks out the window of his Colorado classroom and sees camouflaged paratroopers drop onto an open field beneath a clear blue sky. “I would say they ...
Flesh and Blood
Few Hollywood career turns have been more disappointing than Robert Zemeckis’s. The director who once gave the world Back to the Future has spent most of the last decade exploring ...
Blast from The Past
The black comedian Dick Gregory said in 1971 that race relations in America were easy to understand: “In the North they don’t care how big I get, long as I ...
The Best of Marines
Charles Dickens famously began his classic A Tale of Two Cities with the phrase “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” It is that best/worst ...
Sections
National Review Post-Election Cruise 2012
Special Program Note: Some events have been adjusted or replaced since Election Day.
Monday, November 12: San Juan, Puerto Rico
3 p.m.: Main Auditorium (Lower Promenade Deck), “What Went Wrong.” National Review ...
A Message of Compromisers
It’s only a matter of time before Chris Matthews announces that the amendment limiting presidents to two terms is, in fact, racist. There will be a great lusty national clamor ...
Poetry
With My Parents at Twenty-One
They face the hotel ceiling sky
Like restful fresh sarcophagi.
His snores are gulls that dart and skim
Along her ear’s marina rim.
I used to have the pluck and ...
Bond in Bankruptcy
For some reason, the quadrennial humiliation of the Republican presidential candidate now coincides with the release of the new Bond movie. Don’t ask me why; probably a constitutional amendment I ...
Letters
Two Historians
Thank you for articles of great interest on Eugene Genovese (“Up from Leftism,” November 14, 2011) and Eric Hobsbawm (“The Tyrants’ Historian,” October 29, 2012).
It would have been illuminating ...
The Week
‐ At least now, when the president blames the guy in his job four years ago, he’ll be right.
‐ That was a thumping, make no mistake. A failed president earns ...