Keeping a Safe Watch
On September 11, 2001, Debra Burlingame lost her brother, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, who was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was forced to crash into the Pentagon. Now, with State...
View ArticleThe Problem of Evil
Since 9/11, Michael Ledeen has been warning that this war against America was never about Afghanistan or Iraq, but has always been a regional war, with malefactors are up to no good around the world....
View ArticleConnaughton's Constellation
James L. Connaughton, who was chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the George W. Bush administration, has been demonized by the likes of Rolling Stone. But in an interview...
View ArticleRemember the Silent Majority
Don’t believe what you’ve seen in the movies. Malcom X wasn’t friendly with Martin Luther King, most anti-war protesters were just looking “to get laid,” and plenty of Americans lived through the whole...
View ArticleA Military Can Do Wonders for an Economy
Why is Israel so economically successful? Dan Senor and Saul Singer go beyond stereotypes and beyond the continuing Mideast conflict to analyze this question in their new book, Start-up Nation: The...
View ArticleWedded to Victory
Marriage won a 31st victory last week with Maine’s Question 1, a referendum to repeal the state’s same-sex-marriage legalization law. Brian S. Brown, executive director of the National Organization for...
View ArticleTom Brady & KSM
Bill Burck, former federal prosecutor in New York City and deputy counsel to Pres. George W. Bush, warns about the coming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and what the administration can do about it in...
View ArticleReminding Caesar of God's Existence
Right before Thankgiving, a group of Christians held a press conference in Washington announcing that “because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to...
View ArticleMatters of Trust
Fr. Thomas D. Williams, LC, is Vatican Analyst for CBS News and teaches theology and ethics at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome. He is author of, most recently, Can God Be Trusted?...
View ArticleLove in an Economic Downturn
Are economic downturns a blessing in disguise for marriages? This one is, reports W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and a member of the James...
View ArticleAll Writers Are Avatars
NASA may be putting its shuttle program to bed, but the adventure of traveling to a galaxy far, far away is far from taking a rest. Boys and girls may not know Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin like they...
View ArticleACT Now
He’s a husband and father. He has been the secretary of education and the drug czar. He’s been a professor, a think-tank co-founder, and now he’s a successful radio talk show host. And through it all,...
View ArticleA President's Relentless Optimism
Ronald Reagan is not just the stuff of right-wing confabs and campaigns. He was a key catalyst in the fall of the Soviet Union and its poisonous empire, an accomplishment that is widely celebrated and...
View ArticleThe Architect Is an Open Book
Karl Rove -- the George W. Bush confidante who needs no introduction -- has written a memoir of his life in politics, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, which is released...
View ArticleDon't Lose Out: Mary Eberstadt on Her New Book
Richard Dawkins wants Pope Benedict XVI arrested when the pontiff visits England in the fall. Canadian National Post columnist Robert Fulford rightfully slammed the Dawkins proposal as “a publicity...
View ArticleMamma Mia! Michael Graham Talks Tea Parties
Michael Graham is a Boston-based talk-radio host and frequent contributor to National Review Online for going on a decade. Recently the master of ceremonies at the Tax Day tea party in Boston, Graham...
View ArticleScott Rasmussen Talks Self-Governance
Scott Rasmussen, the pollster, has published a new quick read, In Search of Self-Governance. He recently talked about what he means by the title and what he thinks the title means for American politics...
View ArticleSecuring Arizona, Securing America
In his 2009 book, Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America Outside the Beltway, Matt A. Mayer, president of the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions and a former senior official of...
View ArticleMelanie Phillips on a World Gone Mad
Melanie Phillips, the British journalist, is author of The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. As the title suggests, the book covers a lot of ground. Phillips...
View ArticleGod and Man in the World
Leonard Leo is chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which late last month issued its annual report on the state of religious freedom in the world. With recommendations to...
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