Jindal Gestures for President

Bobby Jindal is interested in running for president in 2012. We know this not because he has said much about the matter – on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” he provided all of the customary non-answers – but because of his words and actions on another subject.

Jindal, who will deliver the Republican response to Barack Read More

Fool’s Errand: Antsy Conservatives Look Past McCain

The vast majority of voters have yet to cast their ballots. The presidential candidates are still campaigning. Ads are still running. But many Republican insiders and some members of the conservative punditocracy are already moving on. This election is, to many of them, passé.

David Frum boldly wrote off John McCain in a Washington Post Read More

National Review Essentials Party Like It Was 2008

ST. PAUL—Jack Fowler, the publisher of the National Review, was leaning back in a chair in a banquet hall at the St. Paul University Club.

The party he’d just held there was breaking up, and he was talking to a reporter about President George W. Bush as Jay Nordlinger and Claremont Institute fellow and Read More