December 31, 2012

One of the reasons — I say one of the reasons because I could think of several others if I put my mind to it — that I kept on ...

No presidential candidate has run a campaign as aggressively supportive of abortion as the one Barack Obama did this year. The fact that he won — and by a bigger ...

Jersey City, N.J. — Police chief Tom Comey calls it his “eye in the sky.” Jeremy Bentham called it “the Panopticon,” and the idea has been around for a while: ...

When supporters of same-sex marriage attack the federal Defense of Marriage Act, they invoke purported federalism concerns about the authority of the states to regulate marriage. But when they sue ...

In May 2012, the same month Mitt Romney made the “47 percent” remark that helped lose him the election, his consulting-industry alma mater, the Boston Consulting Group, released its annual ...

She’s a fast-talking gadfly-hipster, an iconoclastic critic of the cultural world, amusing, perceptive, and (occasionally) infuriating; sometimes glib, but seldom dull. Despite her dogmatic pronouncements, she’s a sort of intellectual ...

The good news first: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, part one of the long-gestating trilogy of prequels to Peter Jackson’s astonishingly good Lord of the Rings, is not a failure, ...

‐ 2016 campaign slogan: Bin Laden is dead, AIG is alive! ‐ News of the passing of Judge Robert H. Bork, a National Review contributing editor, arrived as we were finishing ...