1939–1945 global conflict
Victor Davis Hanson assesses the strange connection between Islamists and socialists. One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance…
Editors at National Review Online support new data centers. American companies are at present engaged in a building spree that puts all prior building sprees to shame. In scale and…
Todd Harrison explores the demands associated with wartime mobilization. Recent wars have exposed a reality that peacetime defense planning often understates: Stockpiles are finite, production does not surge overnight, and…
Editors at National Review Online see one positive data point emerging from the federal government. Don’t look now, but the federal government might actually have gotten leaner. The most recent…
Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux analyze the impact of one of President Donald Trump’s key economic ideas. A year ago Thursday, President Trump raised the average effective tariff rate to…
North Carolina has continued to accelerate its dependence on federal funds. From fiscal year (FY) 2024 to FY 2025, federal fund receipts within the state’s General Fund skyrocketed from roughly…
John Ferrari and Dillon Prochnicki assess a key challenge for the American military. The war with Iran is no longer hypothetical. American forces are engaged. Missiles are being launched. Interceptors…
Jack Goldsmith and Samuel Moyn compare our current president to one of his favorite predecessors. A little more than a year into President Trump’s second term, his executive power grabs…
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online assesses current conditions in one of America’s longtime enemy states. Since 1979, the Shiite jihadist regime of Iran has been the most insidious geopolitical…
Editors at National Review Online tout recent speeches from a prominent conservative. Well, that will leave a mark. Ben Shapiro did the conservative movement a service last week by giving…
(Note: This piece was originally posted in 2018 under the title “Remembering World War One.” I’ve started reposting it every year because we need to remember the first world war,…
Eliana Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights Middle East expert Elliott Abrams’ argument that “there will never be a Palestinian state.” The upshot of your piece is that the…