Dan – You relative newbies need to consult the wisdom of the ancients your slightly older colleagues. You cannot discuss the role of facial hair in politics without referencing the grand tradition of pogonophobia posts in the Corner. For example, brother Steyn 2005: I like John Bolton’s moustache, which seems to me rather Balkan, and thus potentially discombobulating for European foreign ministers. On the broader subject of the rampant pogonophobia in Western politics, as one of the more hirsute National Review contributors, I note that the Brookhiser…
Wait: I’ve seen this movie before. At the end of July 2006, I remember being… fairly optimistic about the Congressional elections. Oh, I knew that there were going to be problems. It was year Six of a Presidential administration, and the Other Side was kind of fired up. And, sure, the economy was slowing down a bit – we were all the way down to 5% growth that quarter! – but at least unemployment was ticking along at less than 5%. It would have been better if it had been at…
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, mulling a presidential run , says Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, a potential 2012 primary foe, is indulging in “class-warfare” rhetoric. On Monday, Pawlenty met with reporters at the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, where he cast himself as a Republican who could shake the impression that the GOP is a party of “country-club elitists.” Pawlenty also said that it helps to have a “messenger who has at least walked in [voters’]…
Last Friday morning the good folks at The Cruise Authority sent the weekly cabin-bookings report for the National Review 2010 Post-Election Caribbean Cruise and mama mia!— 26 cabins were added in the previous seven days. Which means close to 350 cabins have been reserved for this super trip. Which in turn means our allotment of about 400 cabins will be exhausted before you can say “President Obama Interrupted His Golf Game to Go on Vacation.” Well, why don’t you get the lead out and book your vacation (November 14 – 21 aboard Holland America Line’s brand new Nieuw Amsterdam ) at www.nrcruise.com . While there is still a cabin left. By the way, we are…
Ken Buck, a Weld County prosecutor, is challenging former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton for the GOP Senate nod in Colorado. The RealClearPolitics poll average shows Buck up by seven points with just two weeks to go. But this race is far from over. In recent days, Buck has stumbled: A joke he made about Norton’s “high heels” went viral and he was caught on tape calling those who question the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth …
Today is the publication date of Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus . Edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball, the book compiles some of Buckley’s most notable columns and occasional pieces. Bridges is the former managing editor of National Review; Roger is the co-editor of the New Criterion , publisher of Encounter Books and proprietor of Roger’s Rules . William Buckley was the founder of the modern American conservative movement. The publication of the new compendium provides an opportune moment to look back in gratitude. I asked Roger if he would write something about the book…
Today is the publication date of Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus . Edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball, the book compiles some of Buckley’s most notable columns and occasional pieces. Bridges is the former managing editor of National Review; Roger is the co-editor of the New Criterion , publisher of Encounter Books and proprietor of Roger’s Rules . William Buckley was the founder of the modern American conservative movement. The publication of the new compendium provides an opportune moment to look back in gratitude. I asked Roger if he would write something about…
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Today is the publication date of Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus . Edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball, the book compiles some of Buckley’s most notable columns and occasional pieces. Bridges is the former managing editor of National Review; Roger is the co-editor of the New Criterion , publisher of Encounter Books and proprietor of Roger’s Rules . William Buckley was the founder of the modern American conservative movement. The publication of the new compendium provides an …
If you read nothing else today, take the time to read this Andrew McCarthy piece at National Review Online:Feisal Abdul Rauf is the imam behind the “Cordoba Initiative” that is…
William Buckley achieved notoriety if not celebrity with the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951. The book was a succès de scandale . In it Buckley attacked the undergraduate education on offer at Yale for its hostility to Christianity and its adulation of collectivism while seeking to dispel the indifference of Yale alumni to their supervisory responsibility. In 1955 Buckley founded National Review as the voice of the conservative movement. Recall, as John Judis does in his biography of Buckley, that the fortunes of the American Right had never appeared dimmer; the principal right-wing organizations were anti-Semitic and neo-isolationist throwbacks to the thirties and forties. Recall also that in the Publisher’s Statement of National Review’s first…
