The False Dichotomy: Communism vs. Capitalism
Are the international capitalists who controlled the United States in the 1980s and 2000s Lenin’s new useful idiots?
First Principles
The Politics of Home
By clarifying who is conserving places, we clarify which side has the whole community at heart.
Has America Changed its Mind?
Progressivism’s victories are so pervasive and so extensive that Progressivism’s changes are barely recognized.
Granting Value to the World
By making happiness incompatible with man’s essence, Schopenhauer found himself deaf to Goethe’s wisdom: “If you want to delight in life, then you must grant value to the world.”
Conserving Conservatism Is Conserving Defeat
To be conservative in America today is to preserve an order that has lost its legitimacy, and the right thing is not to conserve but destroy it and institute something else.
The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon
Hating white Americans, denying them the same sense of identity—and thus dignity—that is afforded to every other group is the point.
‘Let It Run’
The Declaration of Independence says revolutionary change should not be undertaken for “light and transient causes.” We are well past that now.
Slow-Motion Suicide of the West
Some people thought James Burnham’s identification of liberalism with civilization’s suicide was hyperbolic. In light of American institutions’ embrace of anti-Americanism, what would they say now?
Raise the Red Boycott
Liberty matters and is tied to your economic choices.
Too Much Data, Too Little Wisdom
We know too much, and we know too little. We have a lot of data and precious little wisdom. This is no way to run a country. And it’s no way to preserve a civilization.
Sanctity and Liberty
Our freedom is not to be measured by what our laws permit us to do, but by what our habits and the innumerable features of our culture give us the power to accomplish without the oversight of law.
Good People Must Be Dangerous People
Fear is the only language the violent comprehend.
Can Prudence and the Constitution Prevail in the Face of Court Packing?
It is a supremely imprudent policy to make the court more political, and it ought to be resisted.
Biden’s Gun Control Distraction
Biden is accelerating the gun control agenda to divert attention away from the real crises at the border and elsewhere in the United States.
The Chesterton Option: America Is Worth a Crusade
Only by rediscovering and elevating our Christian culture can we differentiate ourselves from the new evil empire.
Embracing the Divine
That we begin now, this springtime, to embrace the divine in our lives more fully, more resolutely, and more gratefully than ever, is an Easter and Passover prayer for all of us.
The American Civil War Is Over Judeo-Christian Values
What will we get in America if Christianity and Judeo-Christian values die?
Christopher Lasch vs. the Elites of Our Time
One of the most trenchant critics and historians of American culture died more than 25 years ago. What do his writings tell us about the present crisis? Turns out, quite a lot.
To the Parapets, Defenders of Free Speech!
Anyone who aims to chill, curtail, infringe, or end free speech has outed themselves as an aspiring tyrant and must be stopped.
Lessons from the Edge of Liberty
If Americans choose to fight the coming authoritarian leviathan, they should examine the history of other political movements and the resulting lessons learned at the edge of liberty and tyranny.