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What McGovern Wrought

Ramesh Ponnuru

George McGovern, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, died Sunday at age ninety. Ramesh Ponnuru discussed his political legacy in the below review, which originally appeared in our March 2008 issue....

The Gift of Lightheartedness

Ramesh Ponnuru

In what has become a winter of farewells for conservatives, the hardest loss was that of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. He was always “Fr. Neuhaus” for me, never “Richard.”...

What McGovern Wrought

Ramesh Ponnuru

Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party by Mark Stricherz Encounter, 315 pages, $29.95 It would have required a lot of prescience...

Right Turn

Ramesh Ponnuru

Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz Free Press, 468 pages, $27.50 David Horowitz is the most prominent member of his generation to have made the political trek...