On July 17, 2013, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, having recently declared his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, hosted a town hall on Twitter. The exercise was, perhaps, poorly ...

In 2012, Republicans were dealt a drubbing at the polls. As disconcerting as the result itself was how it caught the party apparatus unawares. Despite the opinion polls and analyses ...

In September, the Washington Post received an unusual request: Would it remove a music review from the Internet? The request came from Dejan Lazić, a Croatian-born pianist. Not hearing from ...

Everyone loves to hate crony capitalism. But crony consumerism, its evil twin, is just as dangerous, yet is barely known.   In the wake of the Great Society’s efforts to mandate ...

When Bret Stephens, foreign-policy columnist for the Wall Street Journal, penned the final words of America in Retreat in the spring of 2014, America’s world role seemed a low priority ...

Some years ago Mark Steyn deplored the fate of Britain’s Susan Moore, who obtained notoriety for having vegetated on the dole ever since dropping out of college in the late ...

In this new book, Mike Gonzalez tackles the debate among conservatives on Latino political assimilation. Gonzalez, who was born in Cuba, is a former deputy editorial-page editor of the Asian ...

Jed Perl is one of the most ferociously intelligent art critics writing today. From his perch at The New Republic, he issues not only taut reviews of current exhibitions but ...

Remember the Alamo In his piece “Forget the Alamo” (October 20), Henry Olsen discredits the fierce battle of 1836, contending that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is overly enamored of a ...

ANGELICO’S CRUCIFIXION Tempera and gold on wood, circa 1445 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue Here is faith’s erotic life, Prayer’s unfallen touch, whose brushstrokes hold Strange virtues even now to halt And hush our ...