‘Bring Me Some New Clichés’
Leo Strauss and his student Harry Jaffa understood that once philosophical insights and political principles ossify into clichés, they are no longer meaningful.
We Don’t Need Another Church Committee, We Need a Reformation
What Congress did in the 1970s to “fix” the FBI and the CIA is the problem, not the solution.
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.
Fire, Air, and the New Right
The battle against bad ideas can only be won with better ideas.
MAGA and the Memory of America
If Ron DeSantis runs for president can he learn something essential from Donald Trump? And vice versa?
America Never Existed
We are in danger of losing not only the habits and institutions of republican self-government, but our very ability to remember and understand them. It will be as if America never existed.
Their Boring Declaration—and Our Glorious One
The desiccated treatment of the crucial virtue of prudence by some scholars shows why it is held in such low esteem today—as mere risk-averse circumspection.
Equality Explained
Defending the founders’ republican principles—all of them—is the best and most effective way to fight our emerging woke tyranny, which categorically rejects those principles—all of them.
‘Remain Calm, All is Well’—How Not to Save the Republic
If you think radical egalitarianism is built into the American regime, you might as well admit that the Left should win.
Friends, Enemies, and Prudent Alliances
If your principles are standing in the way of pursuing justice and engaging in effective political action, Aristotle would suggest you are probably doing something wrong
Poking the Deplorable Bear
Three recent left-wing tracts demonstrate how the Woke Occupation Army, and its pagan gods, are at war with traditional America and how they are determined to pin the blame on us.
Top Priority for the Midterm Elections: Make Them Pay!
Will there be righteous and necessary recriminations for the Democrats’ COVID policy disasters? Republicans, don’t screw this up again.
The ‘New Normal’ and the Assault on Reason
Can this assault on reason and nature last?
Squinting at Leo Strauss: Impartiality and the Art of Writing
A response to some reviews of The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America .
The Overbearing Conceit of the Oligarchs
The ugliness and malice of the oligarchy’s propaganda may be overreaching, thus making it easier for us deplorables to imitate Solzhenitsyn’s courage.
Political Rights Demand Respect for Private Choices
The personal choices of free men and women, and the official actions of the government, are in David Tucker’s imagination one and the same.
Bullets, Ballots, and Books
What Harry Jaffa teaches is neither easy nor comforting. Rather than offer his students and readers idle chatter or shallow patriotism, he sought to reveal how natural right remains a living force.
We Must All Hang Together
Some lessons from history and philosophy can help us think about our present crisis.
A Lordship for Me, But Not for Thee
Exposing the fallacies of our erstwhile aristocrats.
The Faux Conservative Cope Exposed
Fixating on the Trumpist Right is a coping mechanism for those who want to conserve whatever version of America is trendy now.