Winston Churchill: The Man Who Saved Civilization

Rich Lowry

This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the Star Wars franchise, but Darkest Hour, an extraordinarily deft and moving depiction of the outset of Winston Churchill’s prime ministership during World War II.  Cabinet meetings and political intrigue...

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Be Thankful in the New Year

Clay Routledge

Gratitude is a fascinating emotion. Even though most parents teach their kids from an early age to be thankful, the feeling is elusive to children and adults alike, because life is full of...

Trying to Take Trump Seriously

Michael Barone

It turned out that 2016 was a year in which it was wise to take Donald Trump as a political candidate seriously but not literally, in the inspired words of syndicated columnist Salena Zito. As...

The War on Driving to Come

Charles C. W. Cooke

Editor’s Note: The following piece first appeared in the December 18, 2017 issue of National Review. At some point in the future, be it years, decades, or a century hence, the federal...

Time to Give Clinton’s Server Technician the Mueller Treatment

Andrew C. McCarthy

New Year’s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me...

How the Trump Administration Can Hold the U.N. Accountable Again

Fred Fleitz

President Trump and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley made a lot of news last week with their condemnations of the United Nations over a U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) resolution criticizing...

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

James D. Hornfischer

"A masterful account of the barbaric last year of the Pacific War...The Fleet at Flood Tide is, quite simply, popular and scholarly military history at its best."
- Victor Davis Hanson

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