EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of excerpts from The Right Nation, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. (The first installment can be read here.) AN IDEA WHOSE ...

Four years ago, when I joined National Review, associate publisher Jack Fowler — my hero — greeted me with the following ...

SON OF THE SOUTH. SORT OF. I’m currently in Nashville, but over the weekend I was in Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t get to see much of it. I got there on ...