Despite Jeff Bezos's libertarian ideology, Amazon has used governmental privilege to grow to a massive scale, and has had a disastrous effect on American life, as Alec MacGillis shows in Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.
The Tsunami of Printed Money Won’t Help ‘Affordability’
The inflation caused by increased federal spending will only make life more unaffordable than it already is.
JD Vance Gets America’s Creed and Heritage Right
The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions.
Wokeness Isn’t Dead
The idols of the current year are very far from being smashed to pieces and it won’t be journalists or intellectuals who finally manage it.
Why Healthcare CEOs Should Testify Before Congress
The industry needs to explain why, at taxpayer expense, it is experiencing record corporate profits and doling out massive executive compensation packages while fraud and widespread denial of care continue.
‘Schoolhouse Rock!’: When American Children’s Television Was Still Sane
The series created by advertising executive David McCall to help his son memorize multiplication tables taught a generation of children much more than math.
The Self-Indulgent Trump Denunciation Parade Continues
The compulsion of so many on the right to denounce every tasteless remark Trump utters only serves to reinforce the left’s stranglehold over our cultural discourse.
The Most Explosive Book of 2026
Jacob Siegel’s The Information State exposes how the deep state conspired to control the narrative.
Netflix Acquisition Won’t Destroy the Film Industry
Critics panicked over a potential leftist media monopoly need to Netflix and chill.
Trump’s Inflation Trap
Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.
Reversing Reality Dysphoria
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services restores Admiral Richard Levine to his original gender.
A Solid National Security Strategy
President Trump’s new national security strategy is a solid plan for the new century.
How Trump Changed America
Where his predecessors fixated on abstract issues like global terrorism, Trump is strategically focused on America’s priorities.
President Trump’s Trustbusting Moment
The Trump administration should oppose the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger, which would create a left-wing entertainment monopoly.
K-Pop Redemption
A new animated feature on Netflix offers a rare and surprisingly good message to kids about human agency and the choice between good and evil.
‘Two Prosecutors’ and a Call for Anti-Communist Filmmakers
Two new films and their directors showcase the two poles of human experience that should be showcased at an upcoming Anti-Communist film festival.
Pouring Gasoline on the Affordability Fire
Our affordability crisis is actually a government subsidy crisis.
Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The media’s sudden interest in Joe Biden’s immigration failure is too little, too late.
The Missing Intellectual Rigor in the Fuentes-Shapiro Battle
In building a case against the neoconservative understanding of America and its position in the world, Nick Fuentes would do better to hone his arguments and rein in his rhetoric.
Death of the MTV Generation
A critique and a lamentation for the demise of a channel that defined a generation.
Stronger Vetting Won’t Fix It
After last week’s D.C. shooting, America doesn't need stronger vetting—it needs fewer immigrants.
Rental Americanism
The flaw in the new film 'Rental Family' is its imposition on Japan of America’s worst cultural export: self-hatred.
The Right Needs to Tell Better Stories
Now that it’s in power, the right needs to get better at persuading people. Instead, it’s hitting them over the head with ideologically driven talking points that only elicit cheers from the amen corner.
The ‘Men in the Water’ Canard
Enemies in the water have been legitimate targets of war before. It should be no different now.
Conservatives Don’t Need Affirmative Action
Sometimes you deserve the bad grades you get—even if they are given to you by a transgender leftist professor.
Flame Out at the ‘Daily Wire’
“A tragedy. A shame. A waste.” A former Daily Wire scribe on where Ben Shapiro went wrong.
The Siege of a Synagogue and of a Cathedral
The mob that recently attacked a New York City synagogue is different from the one that attacked St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989, but its spirit and intention to intimidate was the same.
Critique or Dodge of Feminism?
Helen Andrews’ assessment “The Great Feminization,” fails to address the root of the problem: the radical ideology of feminism.
‘Iryna’s Law’ and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary
Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office.
Dress Rehearsal for a Purge
I’ve seen neocon hit squads in action for decades; and as a one-time victim of these nasty pieces of work, I can vouch for their malice.
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Strike Down Race-Based Redistricting
A clear rejection of racially based redistricting in the Calais case would be a long-overdue correction of the judicial usurpation of power within the American political system.
The Anti-Defamation League: Thuggery Under Cover of Fighting Anti-Semitism
The attempt to rehabilitate and whitewash the ADL as a conservative ally against anti-Semitism is a farce. The ADL has been a major advocate of leftist, even far-leftist, causes for decades.
Remembering John Crowe Ransom
The poet John Crowe Ransom led the Southern Agrarians, a political movement that challenged the free-market orthodoxy that has destroyed traditional communities across the Western world.
Dead Boy
The little cousin is dead, by foul abstraction, A green bough from Virginia’s aged tree, And none of the county kin like the transaction, Nor some of the world of outer dark, like me. A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever, A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping, A sword beneath his mother’s heart—yet never Woman...
What We Are Reading: December 2025
When Patrick Buchanan’s 2000 Reform Party presidential campaign ended in failure, National Review mocked the end of a “glorious career.” Not so fast. A new phase of that career—that of a best-selling author—was just beginning. Two years later, Buchanan published his blockbuster The Death of the West, which sat atop of bestseller lists for months. The Death of the West...
‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt
There are increasing signs that the era of white guilt and socially approved racism against whites is at an end. The publication of Jason Riley's 'The Affirmative Action Myth' is one such sign.
Victoria: Britain’s Last Powerful Monarch
Despite being a political novice who reigned during the decline of monarchical power, Queen Victoria was a savvy operator who preserved royal influence by pitting Britain's political factions against each other.
Aristocracy: What Is It Good For?
'Aristocratic Voices' explores the aristocratic side of conservative thought, through a variety of unconventional figures who defended traditional social elites and criticized democratic equality.
Books in Brief: December 2025
Short reviews of 'Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary' and 'Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection'
Deliver Me from My WWII Veteran Father and His Traditional America
Hollywood's Springsteen biopic reveals a young Springsteen fixated on the shortcomings of his father. But it's the father and the American heartland values he represents who comes out looking better than the whiny singer.
Why Ireland Is So Left-Wing
Ireland has become the West’s quintessential social-liberal managerial state. Its small size and its administrative centralization around Dublin have enabled its bureaucratic elite to dominate all of the country’s institutions and to punish or suppress dissenters.
How Machiavelli Divided the Right
Newly discovered letters between Leo Strauss and the editors of National Review show the magazine’s staff divided over whether Machiavelli was essential to the study of politics or a source of moral corruption.
The Zionist Politburo Cannot Purge Tucker Carlson
Neoconservatives are trying the same tactics that worked in the 1980s and '90s to try to cancel their enemies on the right. It won't work this time.
Geezer Chat
You know things are bad for the younger generations when even old folks are talking about how hard it is for the young to buy homes and find jobs.
Ten Years Later, Terror Goes Unnamed
Recalling the San Bernardino massacre that the left would rather you forget.
Europe’s Unending Tragedy
Europe’s politicians are displaying the same old mix of audacity, fear, greed, and fanaticism that lead to the World Wars. This time, it may result in a truly final catastrophe.
MAGA’s Transhumanist Tension
The MAGA coalition between American populists and the Silicon Valley tech-right is rife with contradictions. It's only a question of when, not if, the underlying tension will erupt.
Americans Should Reject the British Precedent on Free Speech
The UK’s Online Safety Act lured social conservatives into thinking they were protecting children when, in fact, it was designed to limit and control political speech.
The Social Justice Left Wants to Ruin Skateboarding
Skateboarding is a uniquely American cultural phenomenon that, like all American inventions, cuts across divisions instead of accentuating them.
Trump’s Deportations Expose the Fragility of His Coalition
MAGA must be willing to accept that Trump loses support among many Hispanic voters when he keeps his promises and they honor tribal interests above national interests.