As primaries roll by and the midterms approach, it’s worth remembering that for Republicans 2016 represented an opportunity more than a victory. It was a chance for them to help the country break the 30-year-spell the Clintons and the Bushes cast, President Barack Obama notwithstanding. It was also a chance for rank-and-file Republicans
This is fun. Who knew that there was a Deplorable Choir? https://twitter.com/DeplorableChoir/status/996013212733726720
Why Republicans? Why? I do not share the conventional wisdom about the metaphysical certitude of a Blue Wave™ building somewhere just over the horizon. In fact, I think that Republicans have a fairly strong record and if they stick to the Trump agenda, a very strong platform. After all, the stock market is up,
The Catholic novelist Flannery O’Connor famously advised her coreligionists to push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. “What people don’t realize is how much religion costs,” she wrote. The same could be said of civil society. It is precious, delicate, rare. It requires diligent cultivation. All the more
White House aide Kelly Sadler is the object of this week's outrage mob. The cycle is well-known: Dig through someone's past or present comments whether public or private, find something that someone, somewhere finds offensive or can spin as offensive, and then whip up a media frenzy demanding a public shaming, which usually includes
Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III rapped Robert Mueller's knuckles today. He accused the special counsel of "not really telling the truth" saying also that "It's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special counsel has unfettered power to do whatever he wants." Ouch. This judge gets it. We are only slowly realizing the scope of the scandal
Marx and Marcuse. Gramsci and Ginsberg. Clinton and Obama. From bohemians and radicals to the universities to the White House, how did the Left, with its catechism of negation, seize the high places of our culture and what does it portend for our ability to sustain a civilization that allows and even encourages the pursuit
Paul Revere made his famous ride 243 years ago today warning the colonists of the movement of British troops and leading to the battle on Lexington Green. Remembering and honoring the heroism of our forebears is part of how we continue our civilization. It's part of how we make not just patriots but citizens. Henry
As President Trump continues to remake the Republican Party in his image, calls for last rites to be given to American conservatism are not just premature—they’re entirely wrong. Accusing Republican voters of political apostasy for supporting Trump is wrong, too. These perspectives are also evidence that the accusers are missing an intellectual and
Friday's cruise missile strike on Syria by the United States, Great Britain, and France has received widespread praise for its relative restraint and alleged effectiveness. People I know, like, and respect say the attack was necessary. Maybe they're right. But no one has yet made or, as near as I can tell, is
