The 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…
View ArticleIslam 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,…
View ArticleInstructing 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…
View ArticleDeath 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…
View ArticleAnd 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…
View ArticleCrossroads
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…
View ArticleGalbraith 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…
View ArticleBreakdown 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…
View ArticleOur 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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