Peritus Parasitus Wants Its Host Alive But Not Healthy
How an ever-growing incompetent, ideologically driven expert class keeps us servile, stunted, confused, and ignorant.
First Principles
What About the Founders?
According to some critics, American conservatives are confused about rights. Perhaps these critics are confused about the founders?
The New Secession Crisis
The Democrats have already left the Union.
Red Lines
The Constitution invites us—and politics compels us—to consider redrawing state and local borders.
Central and Eastern Europe Help Show the Path Forward
As the post-Trump American Right continues to cohere and slowly finds itself, it should look to the likes of modern-day Poland and Hungary for some concrete pointers.
True Federalism Honors the States’ Civil Court Systems
Johnson & Johnson wants the Supreme Court to overturn a perfectly legitimate state court verdict. It's nothing short of an attack on our nation’s constitutionally protected principles of federalism.
Individualism and the Protection of Innocents
The decent must transform their psyches and focus their wills if they are to become the dangerous folks that they need to become to neutralize the indecent and dangerous.
Socialists Are Children
Caring about the whole world is a fancy way of caring only about oneself.
The Middle East Dispute Is About Religion, Not Land
The reason for decades of Palestinian-Arab rejections of a state of their own is that it would mean a Jewish state in the Middle East would still exist.
A Hard But Simple Way to Detoxify American Politics
Unless Americans can learn to give up our resentments, we will continue to indulge our compulsive, addictive rage, which eventually will destroy us.
A Forgotten Piety
We should honor our forebears for what they bequeathed to us, and squirm a little, because we would be hard put to say what we are leaving for our children, supposing that we have any.
Theocratic Wishful Thinking
It's difficult to see how the Middle Ages produced a better political regime than the supposedly defective work of the American founders.
The Right of Revolution in the American Founding
Americans grounded their revolution in the eternal principles of natural law and natural right, and in so doing provided a roadmap for all who would reclaim the liberty that God has granted them.
Limitations of the Hatred Coalition
The current administration represents both the woke Left and partisan Democratic interests. But what will happen if the present leftist coalition comes apart?
The Way of Socialism
An absolute commitment to benevolence, like the road that is paved with good intentions, typically leads to an unprofitable destination.
What the Lubbock Sanctuary for the Unborn Shows Us
Where voters support the Constitution’s guarantee of a right to life, what’s needed are legislators, executives, judges, jurors, and jailers who support it, too.
The Response to COVID-19 Shows Why Free Speech Is Essential
Overall, it is fair to say that limitations on free speech have left the country dumber, sicker, less free, less happy, and hopelessly divided.
Is Tyranny the Inevitable Consequence of Liberalism?
Sohrab Ahmari’s thesis that liberalism inevitably leads to tyranny only works if classical liberalism and what he calls “progressive liberalism” are fundamentally the same.
No, Paleoconservatives Are Not Helping the Left
Why does Michael Anton believe Brion McClanahan or anyone else writing for Chronicles is helping the Left by rejecting the positions of the 1776 Commission?
What Are the Paleoconservatives Conserving?
It’s hard for a movement to claim to stand for tradition when it attacks so much of the tradition it purports to defend.