‘She’s an art historian, you know!” said Donald Rumsfeld to me, when I dropped by his office in 2009. He said it with a look of wonder and glee. He ...

Many of Donald Trump’s supporters are not conservatives. Many of them have not been active in politics before. Conservatives should be glad when a public figure leads newcomers to join our ...

In late January, during a town-hall forum at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont and Hillary Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, ...

GLENN BECK As the election of 2008 approached, America was in crisis. And as we would soon learn, that crisis would not go to waste. Years after Bill Clinton disingenuously claimed ...

American administrations don’t fall silent when their president leaves office. Just the opposite: Inauguration Day for the successor is the starting gun for memoirists and journalists-turned-historians. The modern exception has been ...

Groucho Marx supposedly joked that he would not want to belong to any club that would accept him as a member. Here’s a related question: Would John Birch have joined ...

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler discussed the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” ...

The phrase “a restrained Michael Bay movie” has the same inherent tension as, say, “a tasteful Donald Trump property” or “a platonic hug from William Jefferson Clinton.” Combine Michael Bay ...

MUSK AND MYRRH Indebted to the camel covering I wore on our first evening, with the Oriental mist of Opium by Saint Laurent sprayed on my wrist, I drop the empty bottle, and slide ...

A People and Their Idea Of the many fine essays in National Review’s 60th-anniversary issue (November 19, 2015), perhaps none rewards careful reading and reflection as much as John O’Sullivan’s “A ...

‐ We appreciate the concern, Donald, and we’ll be sure to consult with you should we ever need advice about bankruptcy. ‐ If the GOP race comes down to Trump or ...