National Review articles from May 2007

National Review archives from May 2007

That's madam speaker, to you.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007

Goin' mainstream.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007

Playing the percentages.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007

Hope floats.(Letter to the editor)
May 14, 2007

You should hear Alec Baldwin.
May 14, 2007

If John McCain had jokingly sung "bomb, bomb Iran" during his 2000 nomination run, reporters would have dissolved in appreciative laughter, tickled at the rascally authenticity of the Arizona senator.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Senate majority leader Harry Reid made the mistake of saying what he and most Democrats believe about the Iraq War--that it's lost.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Hillary Clinton addressed Al Sharpton's National Action Network, and for the second time when speaking to a black audience (the first was at a Baptist church in Selma in March) her voice got positively ... nappy.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Barack Obama gave his take on Virginia Tech in a speech in Milwaukee.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Those $400 haircuts that John Edwards got from a Beverly Hills stylist were money well spent: since his hair is his best asset, he should take care of it.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

What was the cause of the recent mass killings at Virginia Tech?(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Attorney general Alberto Gonzales's April 19 performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee--the appearance in which he admitted he could not remember why he fired some U.S. attorneys--embarrassed many members of his party.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's appointee to the presidency of the World Bank, stands accused of using his position to get big raises and cushy jobs for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a fellow Bank employee.
May 14, 2007

The Pentagon is extending the tours of most active-duty Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to ensure that troops have a full year at home between tours.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Those Abortion Nuances.(Poem)
May 14, 2007

The Senate voted to provide federal funding for stem-cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos taken from fertility clinics.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Georgia legislators recently passed a law that would require a woman seeking an abortion to sign a statement indicating whether she had taken the opportunity to view an image of the fetus.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

The new tax revolt.
May 14, 2007

The first-round results of the French presidential election have, as expected, set up a runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy of the Right and Segolene Royal of the Left.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

What did the BBC ever do to--indeed, what has it ever not done for--the Palestinians?(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Yahoo! is being sued in U.S. court on behalf of Wang Xiaoning, a Chinese citizen.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

An extraordinary tale of Cold War heroism has recently come to light.(Richard Fecteau, John Downey)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Call it the "can't cant.".(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

More than a year after their ordeal began, the three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a stripper at a team party were declared "innocent" by North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Don Imus, universal bogeyman for a week, seems a million years old now.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Rock singer Sheryl Crow has joined the global-warming nags, touring the U.S. on a biodiesel-powered bus with environmental activist Laurie David to spread the good word on college campuses.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Miss America 1944 was Venus Ramey of Kentucky, the first redhead to win the title.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

It is hard now to remember the days when Boris Yeltsin was regarded as a hero, but a hero he was.(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut was a last-century artifact, combining dogmatic left-wing politics with whimsy, sentiment, and a few science-fiction tricks in a way that led people, beginning with himself, to think of him as a Sage.(Brief biography)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Johnny Hart won many awards from his fellow cartoonists.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 14, 2007

Rampage.(school violence)
May 14, 2007

Partial truth about partial-birth.
May 14, 2007

Patricia Taylor Buckley, R.I.P.(Obituary)
May 14, 2007

One of a kind: some thoughts on Pat Buckley, 1926-2007.(appreciation)
May 14, 2007

The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal.
May 14, 2007

About to burst: taxes and spending will soon go crazy.
May 14, 2007

Axis uber Alles? Bush is not dealing adequately with Iran and North Korea.(George W. Bush)
May 14, 2007

Madness at Virginia Tech: doing nothing about the kid behind the sunglasses.(Seung-Hui Cho)
May 14, 2007

Flawed liberator: what's right and wrong in President Bush's freedom crusade.(George W. Bush)
May 14, 2007

A pox on Sarbox: the unintended and rotten consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley law.(PUBLIC POLICY II)
May 14, 2007

Out of mortal threat, an opportunity: the present situation will force Americans to define themselves.(American identity)
May 14, 2007

Conference-call transcript.(National Broadcasting Company)(Conference notes)
May 14, 2007

Harry Reid's Blooper.(Poem)
May 14, 2007

Live free or else!(Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement)(Book review)
May 14, 2007

Lullaby.(Poem)
May 14, 2007

Japan again.(Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose)(Book review)
May 14, 2007

The great professor.(William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians)(Book review)
May 14, 2007... William Empson: Volume II: Against the Christians, by John Haffenden (Oxford, 824 pp., $65) FORTY years ago, when the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war and President Lyndon Baines Johnson was being savagely and wittily...

A don's delight.(A Path Remembered: The Lives of Gerhart and Lucie Niemeyer)(Book review)
May 14, 2007

Supreme bias.(Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas)(Book review)
May 14, 2007

True lies.(FILM)(Movie review)
May 14, 2007

Single-parent blues.(THE STRAGGLER)
May 14, 2007

The high cost of loving Dartmouth.(on the right)
May 14, 2007

Imus dead.(on the right)
May 14, 2007

Facing the unique.(on the right)
May 14, 2007

Brutal math.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Bitter (and unfiltered) ender.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

WFB & PTB.(letters to the editor)(William F. Buckley, Patricia Taylor Buckley)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

At least if Hillary wins in 2008.(The Week)(Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2008 United States presidential elections)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Ten Republican presidential candidates appeared onstage at the Reagan Library so that they could be hectored, bullied, and asked inane questions by Chris Matthews and John Harris.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons. In what context did he use the words "slam dunk"? In asserting that Iraq had WMD, or in asserting that the case could be made? But...

Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Post attacking Broder.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

The arrest of six alleged jihadists for plotting to attack the U.S. military installation at Fort Dix, N.J., provided several useful lessons.(The Week)(United States, New Jersey)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Because the first Republican debate was held at the Reagan Library, with Nancy Reagan prominent in the audience, it was only natural that Reagan received respectful attention from the candidates.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

When Rudolph Giuliani announced his presidential run, we hoped that he could find common ground with pro-lifers.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Cracked.(Critical essay)
May 28, 2007

The House voted to make "hate crimes" a federal offense.(The Week)(members of United States Congress)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Calls for gun control after the Virginia Tech massacre were muted.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Vive Sarkozy!(Poem)
May 28, 2007

President Bush sent Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi a letter explaining that he would "veto any legislation that weakens current Federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage.".(The Week)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

As the saying goes, predictions are hard to get right, especially when they're about the future.(The Week)(predictions of Social Security trustees)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Violence at the May Day rallies for legalizing illegal immigrants made the headlines--with, amazingly, the police getting more criticism for responding to it than the protesters got for starting it--but the real news is how few people showed up.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Up to now, the biggest opponents of the Bush administration's initiative to build a limited missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland have been Russia and anti-American Europeans.(The Week)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Our foreign policy may be defined by September 11, but our defense policy remains stuck on September 10.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

When Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, was nominated to the post of Turkish president, the army dropped heavy hints that it might mount a coup if he were elected.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Many Americans have been cross at France of late, and we hope Nicolas Sarkozy puts an end to it.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

British prime ministers don't leave office unless there's a war that's going badly, or they are ill.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

America's best friend in Latin America is Colombian president Alvaro Uribe.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Chavez, Fidel Castro's clone, chose May 1 as the day to announce the nationalization of the major international oil companies operating in Venezuela.(The Week)(Hugo Chavez)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Because Cuban dissidents and truth-tellers are so seldom honored by the world at large, it is especially gratifying when they are.(The Week)(Raul Rivero for Ortega y Gasset Prize and Normando Hernandez Gonzalez for Freedom to Write Award.)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Six years ago, Jian-li Yang swung by our offices, to talk about China.(The Week)(Brief biography)
May 28, 2007

A Chinese judge accused of corruption has died in jail of "adult sudden death syndrome," according to Chinese authorities.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Nowhere has Chinese Communism exacted a more savage toll than in Tibet.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Romania recently agreed to let the United States use four Romanian military bases.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007

Herodotus may have been on to this story, when he reported "a goat-footed race" of men, though he located them in modern-day Russia.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007