IN THE December 17, 2020, ISSUE
A Uniquely American Conservatism
The past triumphs and present challenges of the movement Buckley started.
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A Uniquely American Conservatism
The past triumphs and present challenges of the movement Buckley started.
Ideas Still Matter
The field has been cleared for a generational rethinking of political beliefs.
The Anti-American Iconoclasm of the Statue-Topplers
Their vandalism rejects the meaning of what they vandalize.
Recovering the Conservative Case for Entitlement Reform
We owe a debt to the future.
Our Eroding Political Norms
Right and left, the foundation of our free society is weakening.
What Up Close and Personal Illuminates about Journalism
The Nineties film points toward a troubling lack of ethics.
Our Literary Drought
Novelists, poets, and critics seek a higher truth, but today’s pickings are slim.
Before NR: Wandering in the Wilderness
Conservatives were once a lonely band of freethinkers.
George H. Nash Finds Our Moment ‘Sobering’
The historian reflects on the state of the Right, past and present.
From Spiro Agnew to Donald Trump
And the time when George F. Will and William A. Rusher locked horns.
Anna, Dressed in White and Blue
Although her rebellions came and went like senseless gales, rebellions are for love of one thing or another — love overflowing, love bent, or love broken.
David Hume’s Classical Liberalism
His Essays teach us to put ‘all the circumstances in the scale.’
Adam Smith’s Other Masterwork
The Theory of Moral Sentiments offers a needed theory of sympathy.
Blackstone’s Commentaries: Particular Law, Universal Truth
Lincoln revered the jurist’s magnum opus for good reason.
The Federalist Papers: Instruction Manual for the Constitution
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay explained the meaning of our highest law.
