Hillary Clinton's Latest Deception

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: Kicking off with some gratitude; why I don’t believe Hillary Clinton (and you probably won’t, either); the Grand Cleansing coming to America’s abusive powerful men; and somebody needs to fix a broken record at the New York Times.

First, Some Gratitude

The National Review Institute held its fourth annual William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in New York last night, celebrating great achievements, saluting the history of the magazine and the legacy of our founder, and thanking our generous donors.

The world is a better, freer place thanks to the generosity and dedication of Bruce and Suzie Kovner. The legendary author Tom Wolfe is getting up there in years, but he can still leave an audience roaring in laughter. I was reminded that he had added at least four distinctive phrases to the English lexicon: “radical chic,” “the Me Decade,” “the right stuff” -- from his 1979 book about the early space program that inspired the film of the same name -- and “good ol’ boy.” I might throw in a fifth: When I was a kid, “Masters of the Universe” meant He-Man battling Skeletor, but the grownups ...

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The Most Wasteful Health Spending Is Also the Most Popular

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Editor’s note: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, a conservative writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is writing a series of columns on uncomfortable truths about health care in...

A Farmer’s View of NAFTA

Blake Hurst

A Farmer’s View of NAFTA

Professor: ‘Mathematics Itself Operates as Whiteness’

Katherine Timpf

A math-education professor at the University of Illinois wrote about some of the more racist aspects of math in a new anthology for teachers, arguing that “mathematics itself operates as...

George Clooney’s Latest Oscar Bait

Kyle Smith

George Clooney received Academy Award nominations in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2012. Now he’s in a five-year drought, and he would really like another Oscar nomination this year — which...

Thor: Ragnarok’s Comic Apocalypse

Kyle Smith

As far as I’m concerned, Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song” is a criminally underused element in movies. Thor: Ragnarok features two fight scenes choreographed to the head-banging anthem, and...

Navigating Trumpian Politics in the Virginia Gubernatorial Race

George Will

Arlington, Va. — The breakfasters at Bob and Edith’s Diner are too preoccupied with their tasty bacon and eggs to notice the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Or perhaps, like all Americans...

Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Waldo Heinrichs & Marc Gallicchio

'[A] stellar and extremely important book. . .thoroughly researched, judicious, and very sobering reminder of the complexity and uncertainty of events surrounding the final acts of World War II.'
- Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle

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