National Review

National Review (NR) is a conservative political magazine that was founded in 1955 by the author William F. Buckley, Jr.. The editors of the magazine sitting in New York City; The journal is published bi-weekly.

The printed version of the journal is available to subscribers and read online, but there is also a Web version of the journal, the other contents and which is accessible free of charge. Online Articles do not always appear in the printed version.

The Conservative movement in front of the National Review

To understand the impact of the National Review on politics and culture, it is important that the position of the conservative movement in the United States before the founding of the magazine to understand. The movement was disorganized, fragmented and almost non-existent as a political force of the mainstream. From 1923 to 1929, Calvin Coolidge was indeed been a business-oriented, conservative president, but his laissez-faire philosophy had come to the beginning of the world economic crisis out of fashion.

After Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover was defeated in the presidential election of 1932, a leftward shift became apparent in both the government and the whole country. The Democratic Party showed their newfound power and dominated the political landscape; the Republican Party was contrary to a kind of permanent minority. Later in the process, sprouted small centers of resistance, which would be later referred to as " The Old Right", all over the country spread out.

National Review is taking shape

William F. Buckley Jr., then Ivy League graduate from Yale, had a criticism of his university published because they should have the principles that have led to its establishment, leave. The book bore the title God and Man at Yale. William F. Buckley Jr. was the son of a Texas oil magnate, who had brought up his children with a classical education in the Roman Catholic tradition.

The National Review under Buckley took a stance in which Frank S. Meyer, called by the term " Fusionism ", and joined the individualism of classical liberalism with traditional Christian moral values. This variety conservatism has become an important political force. National Review played a crucial role in promoting the political career of Barry Goldwater. Buckley and others who had to do with the magazine, played an important role in the " Draft Goldwater " movement of the presidential election campaign of 1960 and also for his nomination as the Republican candidate in 1964.

Authors for the National Review

Willi Schlamm
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