State of the Union
Romney Wins Round One
Scott Galupo • October 3,11:19 PM Romney as Populist Executive, Hapless Athlete
Michael Brendan Dougherty • October 3,5:23 PM The Right-Wing Alt-Media’s Self-Consuming Obsession with Race
Scott Galupo • October 3,3:18 PM The Obamaphone Lady and Other Foes
Scott McConnell • October 3,2:51 PM The Early Post-War Deaths of Texas Vets
Kelley Vlahos • October 3,2:00 PM
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Of Note
Weighing Benefits and Costs of Military Action Against Iran
William R. Polk, Affordable World SecurityThe ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Opportunity
Bruce Bartlett, EconomixInequality and Its Perils
Jonathan Rauch, National JournalA Campaign Without a Plan
Ross Douthat, EvaluationsHalf of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Ronald Bailey, Reason
Swimming in Rhetoric
The use and abuse of oratory artistry
The First Presidential Debate: A Choice or an Echo?
Romney had a great performance, but he didn’t stand his ground on policy.
Troubled Water
As the nation’s water infrastructure crumbles, the GOP wavers on its platform commitment.
Japan’s Bad Trade
Why won’t anyone talk about Tokyo’s auto protectionism?
Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Under Obama, Democrats have embraced the national security state.
Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard
A remarkable historian has died — but does it matter that he was a Stalinist?
Misjudging Rehnquist
Appraising the Supreme Court’s most Jeffersonian justice
Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels
The administration spins falsehoods as generals consider intervention in Mali.
Who Closed the American Mind?
Allan Bloom was brilliant, but wrong about Burke and multiculturalism
Struggle for the Senate
Like the White House, it should have been a Republican pick-up. That’s not how it’s playing out…
Atlas Shrugs Back
An improbable sequel gets a boost from the movement right.
‘The Master’ and Scientology
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film downplays its connection to the controversial religious movement.
Return of the Kingsley
America gets reintroduced to the original Amis
Modernism & Conservatism
Does the culture of “The Waste Land” lead to freedom—or something more?
Eliot, Pound, and Lewis: A Creative Friendship
The unlikely triumph of three American classicists in Europe
A Letter to Samuel Adams
“The multitude, therefore, as well as the nobles, must have a check.”
The Reactionary Rousseau
Was the dark prophet of progress a Jacobin or a Jeffersonian?
TAC CLASSICS
Good-bye to All That
A former National Review trustee surveys the wreckage of contemporary conservatism.
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Rod Dreher
The Belief That Absolves Everything
October 3, 8:01 PMThe Elite Consensus Behind Racial Preferences
October 3, 6:00 PMThose Who Have Done Got Above Themselves
October 3, 4:59 PM
Daniel Larison
Romney Did As Well in the Debate As He Could Have Hoped
October 3, 10:37 PMYes, Saakashvili Created a One-Party State
October 3, 2:52 PMThe Reasons Why Romney Can’t (or Won’t) Break with the Bush Era
October 3, 9:30 AM
Alan Jacobs
Orientation in the World
October 3, 9:12 AMProust Is the Bottom Line for Everyone
October 3, 7:19 AM
Noah Millman
The First Presidential Debate: A Choice or an Echo?
October 3, 11:15 PMSome Inequalities Are More Unequal Than Others
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