Hard Truths and Radical Possibilities
Only by confronting the most uncomfortable truths about our lost republican heritage will we summon the necessary courage and strength to fight for its recovery.
First Principles
A Commonplace Enlightenment
As Shakespeare transcended Sophocles in his appreciation of love and hate and wonderment, there might be something of our salvation to be found in novels, and movies,
and even in music.
and even in music.
Reflect on the New Sins—and the Old
If you don’t acknowledge God in your civic life you will not have a real civic life but a mockery of it.
Between Left and Right, How Do You Know Which Side Isn’t Telling the Truth?
There is no important area of left-right difference in which the Left does not call for shutting down dissent.
Iain McGilchrist and the Attack on Life and Understanding In Our Times
To ignore the routine reduction of our humanity is to devalue ourselves.
Kanye West, Anti-Semitism, and Candace Owens
"When a friend makes a mistake, he remains a friend, but the mistake remains a mistake."
Government as a Service
There will always be some (limited) government and we should get what we pay for. Government should be disentangled from many existing services rather than reforming their delivery through government.
Talking To Cogs . . . and Mistaking Them for People
Was man made for the law or was the law made for man?
Common Sense to the Rescue
America was once known as the commonsense nation. These recent books point to a way back.
Hard Work: An Appreciation
Maybe we should reverse the paradigm and pay more for hard work than for optional labor.
Ronald Reagan and Capturing the American Moral Imagination
In our ideologically driven society, how can we recapture America’s moral imagination so as to usher out ideology and embrace human dignity?
Natural Right and Historicism
Why America’s foundation in natural right matters.
The Locke-Box, Part 2
To declare that those rights are unalienable is to declare that they are not property.
Fire, Air, and the New Right
The battle against bad ideas can only be won with better ideas.
No Free Rides
We have failed ourselves. We must correct and repair.
That’s what elections are for.
That’s what elections are for.
Why the Left Hates Conservatism
What does the Left wish to conserve? The answer is nothing. That's why everything the Left touches, it destroys. The less you conserve, the more you destroy.
Historicism and the Right
In the end, the contest between natural rights and historicism on the Right may be irrelevant.
Explaining Conservatism
The next time a liberal or left-wing friend or relative asks you what conservatives stand for, say "liberty"—especially
free speech.
free speech.
Abortion and Beto O’Rourke
The Texas Democrat is either confused or lying about his position on abortion.
The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization
We are in a great experiment in which regressive progressivism discounts all the institutions and methodologies of the past that have guaranteed a safe, affluent, well-fed and sheltered America.