Andrea Bocelli’s performance at the Duomo in Milan on Easter Sunday was incredibly moving. It was featured live on YouTube in partnership with the City of Milan. Bocelli volunteered his time. The opening visuals feature the empty streets of Milan, views from the air and views from the street. It is remarkably empty. While those […]
Policy and Culture
Book Review: Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea
Richard Brookhiser set out to write a book about the history of liberty in America. In the introduction he says, “This is not a book about almost liberty elsewhere; it is a book about the real thing, here in America.” He adds that, “the unique feature of America’s nationalism is its concern for liberty.” He […]
My response to the China Virus
As many of my friends and family know, just a week or two ago, I was pretty vocal about what I see as a mass hysteria in relation to the CoronaVirus / COVID-19 / Wuhan Virus / China Virus, whatever you want to call it. Well, as of last Saturday morning (March 14), I started […]
We Can – and Must – Defeat the Alt-Right
“America First” is a slogan that goes back to at least the early twentieth century. It made itself popular in the American culture just ahead of the Second World War, when the “America First Committee” was formed to oppose America’s intervention in that global conflict and to encourage the United States to retain its neutrality. […]
Conservative Voices: Russell Kirk to Charlie Kirk
Recently I gave a talk to a conservative grassroots group on the subject of this article. When I started my talk, I asked my audience: “How many of you are familiar with Russell Kirk?” About two or three hands went up (of about 30 people). Then I asked: “How many of you are familiar with […]
Should We Break Up Big Tech?
The question of breaking up big tech is heating up as a hot topic of conversation especially in public policy. I have been thinking more and more about this question. And the more I listen and read about the subject, the more I come across startling statistics such as the ones I cite below. Google […]
10 Reasons You Should Attend the NRI Ideas Summit
We are just over 3 weeks away from the biennial National Review Institute IDEAS SUMMIT in Washington, DC. It’s a Summit so big we only do it once every two years. Some like to attend CPAC. I like to say, this is the more intellectual version of CPAC (No offense, CPAC). The conversation is […]
Why I am happy NRI Fellows are highlighting Venezuela
Sometimes when I’m traveling around on behalf of National Review Institute, I get a lot of comments and questions about NR articles people are reading, NR podcasts people are listening to, or an NRI Fellow who just appeared on a Sunday news program. While I’m out doing my job to grow support for NRI, I’m also trying to keep […]
Martin Luther King Jr Takes On Communism
Today is the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto. There are many times I have read through his works and even realized some of his critiques of capitalism. But his approach to solving what he thought were injustices created a philosophy that has been a menace to the world ever since. In […]
#ComingTogether: Challenging You to be Part of the Movement to Make America United Again
Make no mistake. Our country is divided. There is anger. It is palpable. No one side is fully to blame. The anger exists on all sides. Sadly, the most divisive areas of American life today are now in politics and religion. But it doesn’t stop there. We now live in an age where we can […]