Foolish to Choose Morning Joe Crowd Over Bannon and Voters
The empire always strikes back. And permanent Washington wants to retake the power and prestige it lost at the hands of Donald Trump over the […]
The empire always strikes back. And permanent Washington wants to retake the power and prestige it lost at the hands of Donald Trump over the […]
The malignity is easy to read. “Oh, Mike Anton, I recognize your quotes and so will Jared,” tweeted the hard-line NeverTrumper John Podhoretz yesterday morning. […]
Every movement president is soon accused of selling out to the establishment and drowning in Washington’s permanent and deep swamp. “Let Reagan be Reagan” was […]
Rod Dreher has discovered an exotic tribe known as the Straussians. Dreher, in case you’re not aware, is a blogger at The American Conservative and […]
Where are the liberals? In California, I’m led to believe they’re everywhere. I’m not so sure. I hear people lamenting the sad state of Trump’s […]
At the Liberty Law Blog, Professor James R. Rogers makes a sweeping claim that Americans no longer believe in the principle of consent ensconced in […]
According to Ross Douthat, in his April 1, 2017 New York Times article, “Trump Needs a Brain”: Trump himself doesn’t know what he wants to […]
Politics is a team sport. It’s a basic truth of republican government—one that was even written into the nation’s founding document. The signers of the […]
As Otto von Bismarck several times had occasion to observe, “Politics is the art of the possible.” On at least one occasion he added, “the […]
I have a friend who is a retired public school teacher. She is very likeable and in some areas an independent thinker. One day in […]
The Claremont Institute sponsored an event in Washington, D.C. a couple of weeks ago called “Conservatism in the Trump Era.” There, the speakers explained, in […]
Neil Gorsuch is no Robert Bork—to the great chagrin of the Senate Democrats who are trying to block his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. […]
Donald Trump famously promised to be a “cheerleader” for the country when he launched his 2016 presidential campaign, saying he would “take the brand of […]
I recently received an e-mail—you may have seen it, too—from a person who has been a prominent spokesman for the GOP and now is a […]
I suppose we must prepare ourselves for more pseudo-intellectual drivel about the Enlightenment from people who oppose Donald Trump. David Brooks of the New York […]
Jesse Merriam makes an attractive case for a more principled and thereby, he hopes, more successful approach for conservatives arguing religious liberty cases in the […]
The recent events at Middlebury College should have been a jolting reminder that all is not well in our polarized culture or, especially, in our institutions […]
The U.S. Supreme Court recently avoided deciding a closely followed transgender-rights lawsuit over public-school bathrooms, instead sending the case back to the lower court. But […]
Back in the days of Jim Crow, many whites defended racial discrimination by trotting out stereotypes about “Our Black Folks,” who they maintained were satisfied […]
If you think we got the American Health Care Act (variously nicknamed RyanCare or TrumpCare) because the conservative establishment has once again sold us down […]