The great 20th-century handoff: Great Britain to America.

National Review | December 19, 2005| | Copyright

NATIONAL REVIEW was described 15 years ago at our 35th-anniversary dinner by George Will as "the most consequential journal of opinion ever." Characteristically, Mr. Will did not exaggerate. NR had midwifed the birth of the American conservative movement, nursed it through its infant Goldwater setback, helped it install the great Reagan presidency, and thus played a crucial part in winning the Cold War and liberating half the world. These were vital historical achievements that nothing can dim. Indeed, from the standpoint of 1989 and the years immediately following, they were the ...

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