Frumpurged!

Has NR purged David Frum? Or has David Frum purged NR?

Missions Accomplished

We’ve just added a few more articles — from Jim Antle, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Paul Gottfried — to the main page. And here, for your delectation, is a larger image of the current issue’s cover, itemizing some of our 43rd president’s signal achievements:

You can read the full issue online now, and get unrestricted access [...]

Limits of Power

The December Chronicles has my review of Andrew Bacevich’s The Limits of Power. Reading and writing about Limits in the month of September, which addresses the problems that the country faces in a serious fashion, made me all the more impatient and disgusted with a political campaign which did not. If had to recommend one [...]

Fresh Content

Newly added on the main page:
“Epic Bail” — Sheldon Richman on the bailout and nationalization of the banks. “Paulson insists that his acquisition of equity, which smacks of 1920s Italian fascism, will involve no government influence over the banks. This is hard to believe…”
“Untied States” — John Schwenkler on secessionist movements old and new, and [...]

The TAC Endorsement Issue

Our election symposium is on-line now and the new issue — which also includes essays by H.L. Mencken (on the trouble with democracy), Sheldon Richman (on nationalizing the banks), John Schwenkler (on secession), and much more — is winging its way into shops and subscribers’ mailboxes at the end of this week.
There’s no ideal choice [...]

Hardball With Christopher Buckley


Buckley Resigns From NR

Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Barack Obama in the Daily Beast last week has precipitated his departure from the magazine his father founded. (Buckley had been writing a back-page column for NR over the past few months.) Here’s how Buckley tells it:
No one has yet suggested my dear old Mum should have aborted me, but it’s [...]

An Opportunity for Students This Weekend

Conservative student publications on campuses across the country serve as farm teams for the Right. TAC intern Patrick Ford, for example, comes to us from the GW Patriot at George Washington University. And for that matter, I got my own start with a campus conservative publication I co-founded at another Washington — the Washington Witness [...]

Joe at the beach

A bit troubling is the indefinite quality of Joe Klein’s vacation send-off; at any level of journalism I’ve been in, one knows exactly how many weeks off one has coming, and the “one, maybe two weeks ” in Klein’s last post raises some question about whether he has truly gotten away with [...]

The Call Is Answered

The eXile has escaped the executioner’s block. The War Nerd and friends are safe, at least for now.