IN THE December 17, 2020, ISSUE A Uniquely American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti The past triumphs and present challenges of the movement Buckley started.
George H. Nash Finds Our Moment ‘Sobering’ George H. Nash Finds Our Moment ‘Sobering’ By John J. Miller
The Week The Week By NR Editors Yes, we’ve just turned 65. No, we aren’t changing our minds about Social Security.
National Review A Uniquely American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti The past triumphs and present challenges of the movement Buckley started.
Politics & Policy Ideas Still Matter By Dan McLaughlin The field has been cleared for a generational rethinking of political beliefs.
Culture The Anti-American Iconoclasm of the Statue-Topplers By Richard Brookhiser Their vandalism rejects the meaning of what they vandalize.
Culture Heinrich Heine’s Prophecy of Nazism By Robert P. George The poet perceived that action would follow thought.
Politics & Policy Will the United States Disintegrate? By Terry Teachout We may face an unbridgeable chasm.
World Emerging Threats to Economic Freedom By Kevin D. Williamson Its preservation will require a cooperative effort.
World The Meaning of Japan’s Fertility Crisis By Michael Brendan Dougherty A lack of children shows humanity in retreat.
U.S. Big Government’s Overlooked Americans By Nicholas Eberstadt A dearth of data has kept suffering hidden.
Politics & Policy Recovering the Conservative Case for Entitlement Reform By Yuval Levin We owe a debt to the future.
White House Our Eroding Political Norms By Andrew C. McCarthy Right and left, the foundation of our free society is weakening.
World The New Middle East By David Pryce-Jones From Israel to the Gulf States to Iran, the troubled region is changing.
World ‘More Europe’ after Brexit By John O'Sullivan EU politics are colliding with debt, COVID, and domestic law.
Film & TV What Up Close and Personal Illuminates about Journalism By Armond White The Nineties film points toward a troubling lack of ethics.
History How to Write History By Andrew Roberts It should be a page-turner, and there’s no right side.
Culture Our Literary Drought By Joseph Epstein Novelists, poets, and critics seek a higher truth, but today’s pickings are slim.
National Review Before NR: Wandering in the Wilderness By Lee Edwards Conservatives were once a lonely band of freethinkers.
Politics & Policy George H. Nash Finds Our Moment ‘Sobering’ By John J. Miller The historian reflects on the state of the Right, past and present.
Elections The Story of James L. Buckley’s Historic Senate Victory By Jack Fowler Retold on its golden anniversary.
National Review From Spiro Agnew to Donald Trump By Alvin S. Felzenberg And the time when George F. Will and William A. Rusher locked horns.
Politics & Policy Fusionists and Fissionists By Ramesh Ponnuru Frank Meyer vs. Russell Kirk and Brent Bozell.
Culture Anna, Dressed in White and Blue By Mark Helprin 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.
Books Bander, Gaia, Locke By Jason Lee Steorts How today’s anti-liberals get the Second Treatise of Government wrong.
Books David Hume’s Classical Liberalism By Thomas W. Merrill His Essays teach us to put ‘all the circumstances in the scale.’
Books Bipartisan Burke By Gregory M. Collins The lessons of the Reflections apply to conservatives and liberals both.
Books Adam Smith’s Other Masterwork By Ryan P. Hanley The Theory of Moral Sentiments offers a needed theory of sympathy.
Books Blackstone’s Commentaries: Particular Law, Universal Truth By Adam M. Carrington Lincoln revered the jurist’s magnum opus for good reason.
Books The Federalist Papers: Instruction Manual for the Constitution By Charles C. W. Cooke Hamilton, Madison, and Jay explained the meaning of our highest law.
Books What We Neglect in Tocqueville By Harvey C. Mansfield Democracy in America is about a lot more than democracy.