The Party at the Plaza
It is my privilege tonight to serve as a kind of Aaron Copland, composing a fanfare for an uncommon woman: Priscilla Buckley, who is ending more than…
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Happy Anniversary
This is UN week here in New York, an event most of the country will be spared, even unto the reporting of what the princes…
View ArticleTomorrow and Tomorrow
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the March 8, 1985 issue of National Review. Something was missing in most journalistic accounts of Pope…
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Bring Back the Scarlet Letter
The permissiveness of which modern liberals are so proud turns out, in situation after situation, to usher in circumstances liberals–and others–deplore; and so it is…
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A Budget Primer
Let us attempt to focus conceptually on the whole business of the budget deficit without using any numbers. Ready? The welfare business in America is…
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Doing the Impossible
It is, by now, well known—or should be—that conservatives do not peddle solutions to social problems, for the simple reason that there are no “solutions”…
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Flat Tax Talk
Suddenly the idea of a flat tax has become a subject of national interest. There was a time, not long ago, when only a few…
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Free Lech Walesa
Where are they all? Is it too early to express ourselves on the subject? Or does it require, before Lech Walesa qualifies as an international…
View ArticleThe Question of Hostages
New York, April 4 — The salient asset of television showman Phil Donahue is probably his personal amiability, but his usefulness is as a remarkably reliable…
View ArticleWaiting for Ronnie
We liken the mood of your nation’s capital to the mood of Greater New York in November of 1970. In that dark hour for the…
View ArticleWhat We Should Know About China
In that controversial 1978 Harvard graduation address, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presented a thesis which, although it is not so frequently remarked upon, is probably accepted by…
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Islam Versus the Jews
The great hostility of the Ayatollah Khomeini for Israel prompts curiosity as to the doctrinal source, if any, of that hostility; and it transpires that,…
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Instructing Senator Kennedy
It is not the intention of anyone who seeks also to be a practicing Christian to deal with the obiter dicta of Senator Edward Kennedy…
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Death for Gilmore
In the matter of Gary Mark Gilmore, we note the strange behavior, as so often is the case, of the American Civil Liberties Union, which…
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And Now Legislative Supremacy
The shift of power from the executive to the legislative branch of government has come with a terrible swiftness, reeling to the mind. It is…
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Crossroads
The attention being given to the unemployment figure is the most concentrated since the approach, by Henry Aaron, to a new world record as a…
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Galbraith and Inflation
Experiencing Professor John Kenneth Galbraith is always a personal pleasure, though one must be on one’s guard, and the Republic is wise to steel itself…
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Breakdown In NYC
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in a saucy editorial entitled “The Planet of the Tapes,” made light of the New York Times’ ponderous concern over cosmic…
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Our Mission Statement
There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for National Review. But since it will be…
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