National Review

NR PLUS Art

An Unorthodox Take on the Venice Biennale’s Milk of Dreams Show

By Brian T. Allen May 21, 2022

There’s lots of religion there, and a subconscious salute to motherhood.

NR PLUS Culture

The Taylor Swift Counter-Reformation Has Begun

By Kyle Smith May 21, 2022

Taylor Swift’s remarkable commencement speech urged young people to be grateful and fix themselves instead of the world.

Law & the Courts

Why Did Sussmann’s Attorneys Put Robby Mook on the Witness Stand?

By Andrew C. McCarthy May 20, 2022

To prop up his defense. It’s a ridiculous defense, but it’s all he’s got.

PC Culture

Another Bit of Academic Foolishness

By George Leef May 20, 2022

The perceived need among academics to pander to ‘underrepresented’ groups is insatiable. Consider the invented term ‘Latinx.’

Law & the Courts

Ex-Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook Headlines Busy Day in Sussmann Trial

By Isaac Schorr May 20, 2022

Mook admitted that Hillary Clinton herself ‘agreed to’ the decision to leak the Alfa Bank allegations to the press.

Immigration

Federal Judge Blocks Biden Admin from Revoking Title 42

By Caroline Downey May 20, 2022

Republicans had sued, fearing that lifting the asylum restrictions would precipitate a never-ending flood of migrants across the border.

Religion

Scalia on Retreats

By Madeleine Kearns May 20, 2022

‘If you don’t have a weekend to spare once a year to think exclusively about the things that really matter — well, you haven’t planned your life correctly.’

Science & Tech

Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallager: UFOs Could Be ‘Us from the Future’

By Jack Butler May 20, 2022

It isn’t necessarily Gallagher’s preferred explanation for unexplained aerial phenomena. But he thinks we need to take the issue more seriously than we have.

White House

Ctrl+F: ‘Election Conspiracy Theorist’

By Charles C. W. Cooke May 20, 2022

A study in bias.

Economy & Business

Diversity Signaling

By Veronique de Rugy May 20, 2022

More evidence that sometimes corporations do more fake signaling than actually taking action.

Religion

San Francisco Archbishop Bars Pelosi from Receiving Communion over Abortion Stance

By Zachary Evans May 20, 2022

Pelosi will not be eligible for Communion ‘unless and until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion ‘rights’,’ the archbishop wrote.

NR PLUS Education

A Princeton Classics Professor Gets Railroaded

By Charles C. W. Cooke May 20, 2022

Joshua Katz ran afoul of the woke pieties that now dominate American campuses, and his enemies have used a despicable pretext to try to get him fired for it.