Jack Butler

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.

A commitment to free markets in the abstract does not oblige conservatives to defend McKinsey in particular.

The Left can justly condemn those responsible for Wednesday’s events. But not all of the Right is to blame.

Critics of It’s a Wonderful Life are mistaken.

This catchy Christmas staple is brimming with celebrity condescension.

His style of argument bears a strong whiff of the Marxist notion of false consciousness.

There’s no reason to pretend otherwise.

It deserves to stand forever, a silent monument whose history and character speak louder than anyone who would destroy it.

A new low-budget sci-fi movie straight out of the 1950s asks deeper questions.

And even its harshest critics should hope that it doesn’t.