The Shameful Cancellation of Jihad Rehab

How an identity-politics-obsessed mob destroyed a young filmmaker’s documentary. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

We Need More Missile Defenses

They are a key tool to avoid the kind of nuclear apocalypse Biden fears. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

New PayPal Policy Permits Company to Fine Users $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’

In recent years, the company has become known for censoring or deplatforming organizations expressing certain conservative viewpoints. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

A Look Inside the New CIA Spy Museum

A look inside the newly revamped museum at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

The First Lawsuit Is Filed Against Student-Loan Forgiveness

If the court accepts that this constitutes a legitimate injury, the rest is likely to follow. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

What Hollywood Can Learn from RRR

S. S. Rajamouli proves that feature films can exercise creativity while still playing on timeless motifs. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Speech First is fighting, and prevailing, against campus censorship

Speech First is fighting, and prevailing, against campus censorship. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Sooner or later, every last thing in American life becomes about the former president. It’s incredibly tedious. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

The Prius is a conservative automobile

The stereotype associated with the hybrid hatchback is misplaced. In many ways, the Prius is a conservative automobile. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Five easy steps to becoming well-read

Five easy steps to becoming well-read. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Ten-Year Anniversary of Minitel’s End Reminds of the Limits of Industrial Policy

Even when industrial policy doesn’t fail, it doesn’t adapt. The result is a mediocre product that’s unnecessarily costly.  | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

The “Victims of Communism” Museum in Washington, DC

The Victims of Communism Museum could play a role in disabusing young Americans of their fascination with socialists. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

FDA Limits Use of Johnson and Johnson Covid Vaccine

The risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots ‘warrants limiting the authorized use of the vaccine,’ the agency said. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

FBI Conducted Millions of Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data in 2021

The figure represented a 260 percent increase from the previous coverage year, 2020, during which the FBI had conducted around 2 million fewer searches. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

U.S. Economy Shrinks in First Quarter of 2022

Economists had predicted a GDP growth rate of about 1 percent for the first quarter. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Biden Claims School Children Don’t Belong to Parents ‘When They’re in Classroom’

Biden also targeted Republicans and the parent movements in local school districts. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

‘Algorithmic Justice’

A new term just dropped. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 1 year ago

Let the Collapse Start with Me

Online communities obsessed with societal breakdown ignore some basic realities, but the quest for self-sufficiency does have merits. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The national portrait gallery: Ways to make a good museum better

This unique institution needs to ditch bad portraits, for starters. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

CNN+ to Shut Down Just One Month After Launch

Executives reportedly expected the service to draw 2 million subscribers in its first year. Two weeks in, fewer than 10,000 people have signed up. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Abandoning the Sat Won’t Help Disadvantaged Students

As one of the few purely objective metrics in the college-admissions process, standardized-test scores are key to evening the odds for low-income applicants. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Conquest’s Laws

Several readers have asked me for Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics. As best I can remember, they are: 1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. 2. Any organization not explicitl… | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

MIT Admissions Reinstates Testing Requirement to Increase Low-Income Enrollment

The announcement represents a break with many elite schools that have eliminated testing requirements in the name of equity. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Russian Officials Acknowledge 10,000 Dead and 15,000 Injured

The paper quickly deleted the figure and claimed it was added by a hacker. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The Cult of Smart Is Worth the Read

Frederik deBoer’s new book punctures the emptiness of those fond of social-justice hashtags and highest-status collegiate bumper stickers. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

‘Green’ Energy Has Left the West Increasingly Dependent on Russian Energy

And Russia has played a role, exploiting social media to disparage the use of natural gas and fossil fuels.  | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Russia’s Financial Support for Anti-Fracking Groups Is No Coincidence (2017)

Aware that fracking could devastate Russia’s economy, the Kremlin has secretly financed environmentalist groups worldwide to protect its interests. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

We can undermine Putin by stealing his technical talent

We can undermine Putin by stealing his technical talent. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Back Recall of Progressive School-Board

More than 70 percent of voters supported the ouster of school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López, and Faauuga Moliga. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Belgian Government Warns about Risk of Espionage from Xiaomi Products

Governments concerned about the use of Xiaomi devices should take steps to curtail their use. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

There are 95,214 unopened emails sitting in my inbox

There are 95,214 unopened emails sitting in my inbox. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Whoopi Goldberg’s Suspension from the View Is Illiberal and Irrational

Goldberg’s only crime was ‘being wrong in public’ — an eventuality that is all-but guaranteed to arise when we televise spontaneous political debate.  | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The BBC Quietly Censors Its Own Archives

Out of public view, the state-owned broadcaster has been altering old episodes of its shows to make them ‘suitable’ for modern listeners. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The Quantum Computing Race Is Too Important to Lose

If China gets ahead of the U.S. in this crucial frontier of the future, it could change everything — for the worse. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Beware Amoral Humans, Not Artificial Intelligence

The coming AI revolution could be a boon to mankind — unless it’s driven by radicals unmoored from virtue and morality. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Winter Has Come: Europe’s Energy Mess

Europe’s energy crunch has been building for some time. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Fauci Says Masking on Airplanes Will Never Go Away

Several top airline CEOs had challenged the policy earlier in the week. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Can You Say Crime-Prediction Software Is Bad Without Considering Accuracy?

In a column that runs some 6,500 words long, the authors never attempt to evaluate whether or not PredPol is accurately predicting patterns of crime. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Great Lives (2007)

I return from one week’s leave from my column, grateful for my old roost and in the mood to repay a favor by granting one, or attempting to do so. You must have the narrative of what happened one d… | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

California County Mandates Masks in Private Homes

For those gathering with people who don’t live in the same household, masks should be worn inside regardless of vaccination status, the county said. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Frank Sinatra Was Offered the Role of John McClane in Die Hard

Ol’ Blue Eyes was originally offered the role of John McClane in the action classic. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Weird English

A review of Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme — and Other Oddities of the English Language, by Arika Okrent. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

San Francisco: The ORC Invasion

Organized retail criminals are making the most of San Francisco’s urban chaos. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

13 Republicans provided Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the votes she needed to overcome resistance from the far Left of her party. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

Univ. Of Florida Can Prevent Professors from Taking Paid Work Suing the State

And once again, Florida is not a one-man authoritarian dictatorship. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The Orc Invasion

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@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago

The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Sowell

A walk through some of the legendary economist’s most quotable lines. | Continue reading


@nationalreview.com | 2 years ago