Jack Butler

JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump have prospered in digital discourse. Yet even their online success reveals dangers for them — and for the rest of us.

The Vietnam War remains worthy not just of enduring memory, but also of continued study.

The same people and institutions who have spent years degrading the practice of medicine in service of their ideological goals are still at it.

It would be good for America and our film industry if the latter’s long fling with China ended.

So long as Democrats’ masculine appeals remain superficial, caricatured, and constrained by leftist priors, don’t expect them to work.

Some on the left accuse conservatives of rewriting coronavirus history. Figures such as Anthony Fauci have been doing so in full public view.

Any left-leaning politician who wants to moderate on trans issues will have to do so in defiance of the Left itself.

The party is casting about for a workable political strategy. Scenery-chewing isn’t it.

Can a freedom-centered tendency on the right make itself a genuine political force?

A healthy lifestyle does not depend on one unimpeachable authority.

Hostility to the excesses of the federal government is a possible source of consensus on the right.

There are reasons to be watchful of the relationship between the tech industry and the Right.

Voters have given Trump and his allies an opportunity to disrupt Washington’s status quo. For their sake, they better not blow it.

Joe Biden is spending the final weeks of his presidency desperately trying to forge a positive legacy. But one of his appointees may have already helped define it for him.

The overwhelming majority of people who use the start of a new year as an occasion for self-improvement fail. Here’s how you might succeed.

National Review‘s institutional attitude toward this son of Plains, Ga., was a saga unto itself: from confusion to frustration and ending in extended condemnation.

It Happened One Christmas may retain much of the thematic import and help remind people of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, but it is otherwise best forgotten.

The trans suicide myth, recently punctured at the Supreme Court, proves it.

Leftists who regard wellness with suspicion hurt the country and themselves.

The 2024 election made clear a fact with which both Right and Left must reckon.

We shouldn’t look to a ‘coach in chief’ to rescue us politically from the top down.

The failure of those on the right who have endorsed Harris to remain rooted in timeless principles damages them both presently and retroactively.

A new study challenges one of the more popular reasons cited for introducing left-wing ideology into the medical field.

‘Catholics for Harris’ make a faulty case.

Intrusive nanny-statism of the sort now on display in the U.K. may reach our shores if we don’t summon the political and the personal will to resist it.

Governments should have power to confront genuine crises. But emergency governance shouldn’t become the norm.

It is an admittedly irrational system, but it inculcates student-athletes with priceless virtues on which our civilization depends.

That pot is not as dangerous as other drugs does not make the case for its widespread and highly commercialized public use.

The Olympic Games are not perfect. But they have an undeniable stature and power.

The president’s court historian shows once more how proximity to power has corrupted his professional mission.