The Gipper, Talking Turkey

Jack Fowler

The offices of National Review are closed today in honor of Thanksgiving. We wish you and yours copious and enjoyable meals, the company of loved ones, a nap, and time to reflect on the blessings of Liberty.

We also offer you this delightful article, “Thanksgiving at the Buckleys’,” from WFB’s last book, The Reagan I Knew. The selection ...

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Here’s to Another Year of American Hilarity

George Will

Tryptophan, an amino acid in turkey, is unjustly blamed for what mere gluttony does, making Americans comatose every fourth Thursday in November. But before nodding off, give thanks for another...

Ten Years Ago Today

David French

Ten Years Ago Today

Are Congress’s Tax Plans Designed to Benefit Trump?

Jibran Khan

One of the stupider tendencies within our political discourse is to label mundane GOP policies as novel parts of the “Trump agenda.” I can’t make much of the idea that a man who thinks judges...

This Thanksgiving, Thank Donald J. Trump

Deroy Murdock

This Thanksgiving, Americans in general — and free-market conservatives in particular — have plenty for which to be grateful. And much of it would be absent had the White House’s current...

The Miracle of an Ordinary Day

Heather Wilhelm

For a wildly popular worldwide phenomenon, social media certainly gets a lot of bad press — and often for good reason. The latest “conscientious objector” to humanity’s insatiable craze for...

China’s New Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Victor Davis Hanson

A few weeks ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping offered a Soviet-style five-year plan for China’s progress at the Communist Party congress in Beijing. Despite his talk of global cooperation, the...

March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The Red Wheel is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century.'
- Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings

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