Commentary
National Review: The Freedom Letter to the Romans
The Letter to the Romans introduced two great themes into the bloodstream of the West: human equality and human freedom.
National Review: A New Order for the Ages
America’s founding generation absorbed Virgil’s Aeneid and the lessons of Rome.
National Review: Cicero: A Republic — If You Can Keep It
Can Americans recover Cicero’s insights into human nature and the nature of political power?
National Review: Bologna: Birthplace of the University
The modern university could use some intellectual nourishment, Bolognese-style.
National Review: Pliny’s Problem with Christianity — and Ours
The Christians who confounded Pliny, who faced death rather than bow to the idols of their age, embraced a profound imperative from their Teacher and Lord.
National Review: 1776: A Lockean Revolution
This English philosopher had a hand in two of the greatest political revolutions for human freedom in world history. That’s a legacy worth recalling this July 4.
National Review: Anti-Semitism Is an Attack on American Principles
America and Jews owe each other a great debt. An attack on one is an attack on both.
National Review: How C. S. Lewis Accepted Christianity
His friend J. R. R. Tolkien provided a compelling, ingenious argument, one worth remembering this Easter Sunday.
National Review: An American Defense of Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy
The royal family is not simply an important part of British culture. It represents a valuable political inheritance, one to which Americans owe a great deal.
National Review: Churchill’s Prophetic Warning: ‘An Iron Curtain Has Descended’
Seventy-five years ago, Churchill dared to imagine the end of the Cold War, before it even began.