Is a Conservative-Libertarian Alliance Possible?
Yes, but conservative populism—both as an ideological movement and as a practical political agenda—will evolve with or without the libertarians.
First Principles
Five Reasons to Revere the Constitution
Most governments in human history presume that the government is all-powerful, and then carves out certain restrictions where it cannot act. Our constitution does exactly the opposite.
Until Lambs Become Lions
Right now, we are 80 million couch potatoes and keyboard warriors with rifles in our bedroom closets. This is not a force to be reckoned with.
What’s Wrong With Background Checks?
The freedom of gun owners to transfer guns, keep such transactions hidden from the government, and generally to have the government out of their lives is an important component of being a free people.
Forgetting the Founders
The American way is to lay claim to our unalienable right to liberty.
Terrible Good Advice
The once widely accessible domestic institution of marriage is becoming more and more the domain of a fortunate few.
Choose Your Ground
Now is not the time for impotent tough talk and posturing with weapons at protests.
What About ‘Whataboutism’?
There is good and bad whataboutism. Blanket calls to ignore comparisons are usually done in bad faith.
Tearing Down Our Castles
Home and family, bulwarks of freedom and freedom-making in their turn, are hated by those who hate mankind and want to subject it to vast systems of social and political control.
Is Your Friend a Liberal or a Leftist? Ask These Questions to Find Out
The great tragedy of our time is that liberals vote left. Virtually every value liberals have held for a century is now held by conservatives […]
How Contemporary Con Law Became a Con Job
Harvard’s Laurence Tribe turns Clarence Thomas and his recent dissent in the Pennsylvania election case into a cartoon caricature. This is sophistry, not legitimacy.
The Knowing and Doing of Freedom
If you would be free, look to your hands.
The Denial of Evil: The Case of Communism
If you don't hate Communism, you don't care about, much less love, people.
Taking Federalism Seriously
Federalism is like a diet and the coming entitlement crisis may yet make federalism weight watchers of us all.
Can the Truth Set us Free?
The history of speculation about truth has prominently included what we might call a school of impatience that, instead of trying to solve the problem, has endeavored to dismiss it.
Given Our Flawed Nature, America Has Been a Remarkable Moral Achievement
However, given the Left's largely successful elimination of Judeo-Christian and middle-class values, that achievement may not survive.
Lessons from Lincoln on America’s Discord
America is currently experiencing a new formulation of the divine right of kings that takes the form of tyrannical suppression of freedom and speech. What can we learn from Lincoln to stop it?
Conservatives Must Read Marx
Popular conservative thinkers warn of the dangers of class warfare and everything-is-political thinking. But they can’t advise a subordinate class how to climb out of a pit.
Conservatism, Inc.’s Hypocrisy Shines Brightly
Conservatives proclaim the supremacy of self-interest, of anti-social, atomizing individualism even as it facilitates the consolidation of control over our lives by a collective of managerial elites.
1689 or 1776?
The Enlightenment Era did begin in 1689 and America is the quintessential Enlightenment nation, but 1776 is still the right choice for America’s founding year.