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The Spotlight

Wilfred M. McClay A Christmas Present to the World

The reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris is a triumph not just for France, Catholics, and other Christians, but for everyone.

Dec 24 2024
Guy Sorman Christmas Around the World

The holiday, especially in its American form, has been broadly adopted nearly everywhere in some fashion.

Dec 27 2021
Lance Morrow Keeper of Christmas

Remembering a friend and the spirit of the season

Dec 24 2023
Heather Mac Donald Make America Responsible Again

Neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor Donald Trump can save Americans from the consequences of their own eating behavior.

Nov 18 2024
Theodore Dalrymple To Have or to Be?

Personal responsibility plays a role in obesity.

Darran Anderson A Manual for Adversity

Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.

Stefan Kanfer Horatio Alger: The Moral of the Story

The best-selling nineteenth-century novelist stood at the forefront of a phenomenally successful experiment in social reform and improvement.

Stephen Eide Marijuana and the Mentally Ill

Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink.

Lionel Shriver The Most Frightened Nation

Why the United Kingdom will never be the same

Steven Malanga The Promise and Peril of “Smart” Cities

Technology can help us govern better, but at what price to urban life?

Michael Anton The Age of Ships

A time before passenger jets, when ocean liners were “the greatest of the works of man”

Steven Malanga No, You’re Not Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

Judith Miller Passing the Buck

President Biden blames everyone but himself and his administration for the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

Aug 17 2021
William Voegeli William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future

Sam Tanenhaus’s massive new biography raises a question: Is Donald Trump the political heir of National Review’s founder?

Brian Allen A Serious Critic for Unserious Times

Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art.