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John Wick
Keanu Reeves’ Dance with Death in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum
National Review - Ross Douthat
I have a confession: I did not love the first John Wick movie. If you don’t like action movies in which loner heroes fight their way through a …
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Weather Trends
National Review - Richard Brookhiser
The first meteorologists were the cows. On some road trip of my youth, passing a stony upstate farm, one of my parents explained that when the cows …
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Ballpark: How Baseball Stadiums Became Beautiful Again
National Review - Rich Lowry
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, by Paul Goldberger (Knopf, 384 pp., $35) Memorial Stadium in Baltimore wasn’t much of a ballpark. I didn’t …
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Health Care
Letters
National Review - NR Editors
A recent article by Avik Roy (“Socialized Medicine Is Bad for Your Health,” June 3) gives me pause in my waning support for repeal-and-replace and my …
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The Week
National Review - NR Editors
• By the time he’s done, Joe Biden will have disowned Amtrak. • Iran blew up a couple of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important …
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Plowing the Web
National Review - James Lileks
Trump gives a speech in Iowa, says something, Fox drops the feed. Vox writer Aaron Rupar tweets: “Beyond parody — Fox Business cuts away from Trump’s …
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Sound: Coughing
National Review - Rob Long
“Totally lousy day. Just . . . just like the totally worst day. And in the future, people will be, like, That must have been a crappy day for those …
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My Possessions
National Review - Sarah Ruden
Like sterile seeds Cast among weeds: Cheese boards and socks, Earrings and clocks — Already gone, A sinking dawn, Earth inside out. Christ, bring me …
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Billie Eilish
TV Is Terrible
National Review - Heather Wilhelm
‘When television is bad, nothing is worse,” famously declared Newton Minow, former Federal Communications Commission chairman, in a speech to the …
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The Democrats Are the Socialist Party Again
National Review - Kevin D. Williamson
The unfinished business of the Democratic party is socialism. Don’t take my word for it — consult Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders gave a madcap speech …
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The Post-Liberals’ Incoherence
National Review - Charles C. W. Cooke
They say they have a real solution; we’d all love to see the plan In some quarters of the American Right, it has become fashionable of late to blame …
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The Incredible Guts of Thae Yong-ho
National Review - Jay Nordlinger
People who manage to leave North Korea are often known as “defectors” — even when they are ordinary citizens, rather than government officials or …
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Great Writing by Women
National Review - David Mamet
Condoleezza Rice was approached by a professor of English and asked to recommend a book by a black woman, to round out the racially and sexually …
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John Roberts
John Roberts: A Political Judge?
National Review - Carson Holloway
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, by Joan Biskupic (Basic Books, 432 pp., $32) America’s longstanding debate …
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Iraq War
Lessons from the Iraq War
National Review - Hal Brands
The Iraq War is the war that never ended. That’s true literally, in that U.S. troops are still in Iraq some 16 years after the American invasion, and …
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Democracy’s Moral Foundations: Recovering Our ‘Constitution in Full’
National Review - Daniel J. Mahoney
A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty, by Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II (University …
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The Conservative Sensibility Is George Will’s Definitive Declaration
National Review - Matthew Continetti
The Conservative Sensibility, by George F. Will (Hachette Books, 640 pp., $35) In 1975, shortly after she was elected leader of the Tories, Margaret …
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Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley’s Virtue Politics
National Review - John McCormack
The GOP’s youngest senator has taken aim at Big Tech and Pelagius, among other targets At age 39, Josh Hawley is the youngest person seated in the …
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South China Sea
How China Weaponized the Global Supply Chain
National Review - Christopher R. O'Dea
Ports, containers, and the Internet are now means for Beijing to project power Before 9/11, no one thought of commercial airliners as weapons. But the …
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Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli: Unlikely Conservative Hero
National Review - Armond White
The late Italian director had charisma and spirit, unlike art-movie nihilist Carlos Reygadas. News of Franco Zeffirelli’s death prompted an ugly …
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Journal
National Review - Jay Nordlinger
When we land in Tel Aviv from Bucharest, some people on the plane — women! — are very, very rude: pushing, shoving, and yelling. I’m about to put my …
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The Beautiful, Corrupt Game
National Review - Marlo Safi
Even after years of scandals and investigations, soccer’s parasitic executive class continues to tarnish the sport. ‘Jogo Bonito,” the Portuguese …
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Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley’s Internet Censorship Bill Is an Unwise, Unconstitutional Mess
National Review - David French
Do you trust the government to control Facebook’s political content? It’s often the case in Washington that the title of a bill communicates the exact …
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George Washington
It’s Curtains for a George Washington Mural in San Francisco. Or Paint, or Panels. Just Hide It!
National Review - James Sutton
Irony alert: The mural depicts Washington in a negative light. Nonetheless, it ‘glorifies slavery,’ the city’s board of education charges. The Founding …
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Texas Governor Signs Bill Making It Illegal to Hear Sex Jokes On Campus and Not Report It
National Review - Katherine Timpf
This is a completely unreasonable and stupid waste of campus administrators’ time. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill that allows law …
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s Segregationist Problem
National Review - Dan McLaughlin
His rivals, beginning with Cory Booker and Bill de Blasio, have already started to pounce. By any standard, Joe Biden is the Democratic presidential …
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The Supreme Court Was Right to Uphold the Dual-Sovereignty Doctrine
National Review - Andrew C. McCarthy
It was the night of November 5, 1990, in a second-floor conference room at the Marriott East Side Hotel in midtown Manhattan. That is when Sayyid …
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Two Painful Truths of America’s Religious Culture War
National Review - David French
Secular government is breaking its promise of liberty, and the American church is breaking its promise of virtue. The fundamental, founding structure …
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The Wrong Boogiemen
National Review - Kevin D. Williamson
The 'establishment' isn't the enemy of the people. The people themselves are. We worry about the wrong things in politics. We choose the wrong …