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Don’t Believe the Left’s CFPB Narrative
There are two narratives about the latest hijinks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Narrative number one comes courtesy of the mainstream media and Democrats. It goes something like...
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The John Conyers Abdication
On Tuesday, Representative John Conyers (D., Mich.) announced that he would “retire” from Congress, effectively immediately. Conyers, who has spent the last 53 years in office -- Bonanza was the...
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Roy Moore Just Disproved the Legend of Trump
For a year now, there’s been a myth among Republicans: the Legend of Trump. It goes something like this. Once upon a time, there was an unbeatable candidate, a world-famous politician whose husband had...
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Trump’s Good Month
President Trump has had an amazing month. It looks as though he’s about to pass his tax-reform plan, complete with repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate. He announced earlier this month that the...
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Conservative Policy, Populist Attitude
This was supposed to be the year conservatism saw its end. Conservatism, we were led to believe, had run its course. Trump’s supporters cheered his campaign-trail heresies against Reagan-esque...
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Trump Reverses the Obama Doctrine on Iran
Last week, former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice — she of the infamously shifting Benghazi explanations — published an op-ed in the New York Times dedicated to the proposition that Trump’s...
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President Oprah? It Sort of Makes Sense
Over the weekend, Oprah Winfrey made her 2020 bid nearly official with a stunningly, magnificently, incandescently, incomparably brave speech about sexual harassment in Hollywood — a speech so...
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What’s the Point of Labeling Trump a Racist?
Is President Trump a racist? The media have obsessed over this question for years now. This week, the dam seemed to break. After Trump’s alleged statements questioning why America needed more...
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What Right Not to Be Offended?
Earlier this week, Professor Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto burst into the international headlines again, this time thanks to a shockingly polite interview with British interviewer Cathy...
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2018 Is a Great Time to Be Alive
One of the more tiresome lines we hear over and over from our politicians is this: The world is worse today than it was yesterday. The rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer. A dollar...
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Was the FBI Out to Get Trump?
Was the FBI out to get candidate Donald Trump? That’s the big question emerging from the much-ballyhooed memo from Representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), chair of the House Intelligence Committee....
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Why the Media Is Fawning over North Korea
There’s a red star over the Olympics. The media couldn’t get enough of Kim Jung Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong. The Washington Post described presence at the Winter Olympics in South Korea this way: “They...
View ArticleThe 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…
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