National Review

View more issues:

Articles in April 21, 2008 issue of National Review

• Missing pages
  by Richard D. May
• Deviant economics
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Christopher Hitchens took a swing at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his recently conflicted acolyte, Barack Obama
• Liberal web: in the Battle of Wikipedia, we must not surrender
  by John J. Miller
• John McCain is reintroducing himself to the American public by telling people his biography
• Saddam Hussein's Iraq cooperated with jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda affiliates
• In 2005 Joey Vento, a grandson of immigrants who owns Geno's, a cheese-steak purveyor in Philadelphia, put up a sign that said: "This is America—When Ordering Please Speak English
• Bush on the couch
  by David Frum
• If she really wants to know what it's like to land under fire
• 2002 Ad
• Google went "dark"—but did it matter?
• After normalization: the case of Qaddafi's Libya
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Stealth reform: conservatives should not support Sen. Bob Bennett's health-care plan
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• If Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have their way, though, the public will think McCain's chief campaign proposal is to wage "100 years of war" in Iraq
• In a five-minute puppet drama aired on Hamas TV in the Gaza Strip, a little Palestinian boy confronts President Bush
• Dith Pran worked as an interpreter and photographer with New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in Cambodia in the early Seventies
• Serious drinking
  by John Sullivan
• "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles."
• The PR debacle of the Beijing Olympics deepens and deepens
• In April 1942, Jacob DeShazer was a bombardier in the Doolittle raid over Japan
• General Grant
  by William W. Runyeon
• The French may have a reputation for avoiding military confrontation, but recently Nicolas Sarkozy expressed a willingness to stand up to radical Islam: he pledged to send additional French soldiers to NATO's efforts in Afghanistan
• Live free or shrug: what the Democrats have done to New Hampshire
  by Andrew Cline
• But it is also true that Clinton has won nearly as many votes, and nearly as many delegates, as Barack Obama
• Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration Dutch politician, put together a 15-minute film, Fitna , on the unpeaceful nature of the religion of peace
• Maliki's surge
• The modern sense
  by John Wilson
• Sarkozy's two-day visit to Britain went off exceptionally well, leading the more serious kind of British commentator to talk of a new Entente cordiale
• Excerpts from the Hillary Clinton Adventure Library™
  by Rob Long
• The truth about spanking: promoting a ban is counterproductive
  by Lawrence Diller
• Heath Shuler, a Democratic congressman from North Carolina, has introduced a bill to get serious about fighting illegal immigration
• 2008 Ad
• New rules
• Tension city
  by Peter Suderman
• American benediction: on the Pope's U.S. visit
  by Michael Novak
• Wright has made a timely retirement from his ministry
• Undisciplined petition
  by Claude Tison
• When you buy something with a Visa or MasterCard, the credit-card company gets a portion of the proceeds
• In the course of pursuing terrorists, Colombian forces have made some interesting finds: 66 pounds of uranium and three laptop computers, all belonging to the Marxist crime syndicate known by its Spanish acronym, "FARC."
• A trap for Barack
• Class war
  by Ross Douthat
• Words from my grandmother
  by Florence King
• Oblasphemy?
  by Barbara Harty-Golder
• New York is a "sanctuary city."
• As we write, the results of Zimbabwe's March 29 election are still uncertain
• Cursed? Not exactly—but neither are the Democrats blessed this primary season
  by Noemie Emery
• Trust
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Help!!!!
• In Favre we hope
  by Gerald K. Masters
• Who would have thought that the Bush administration would err by being too soft in a death-penalty case?
• It is an old theme, coming up again and again: if Middle Eastern elites believe or peddle bizarre or hateful stuff, what chance does the man on the street have?
• A kind of dynamite: Obama, McCain, and the politics of race
  by Byron York