The Meaning of Constitution Day
The 1776 Report detailed how slavery, fascism, communism, racism, and identity politics are antithetical America’s founding principles and ideals.
First Principles
Liberalism Isn’t What it Used to Be
For writers at Salon “liberal” signifies whatever they and their circle of groupies would like it to mean and has little attachment to historical reality.
Iconoclasts and Tories
Let’s put aside our intellectual particularities for now and, with the American people, rally ’round the America the founders gave us.
Civic Education as Duty and Delight
Somehow our elites tolerate a disregard for civic education. We need to do better.
Big Tech Censorship Is an Assault on Individual Liberty
Today, a small number of giant corporations have secured monopoly power over the primary means by which Americans exercise their free-speech rights. It’s time for change.
Getting Right With the Founders
If blatant misinterpretations such as this are all that stand in the way of Claremont and the paleos making common cause, that should be easy enough to overcome.
Egalitarianism, the Elephant
Ordinary people, in their folkways and their local rule, are competent to pursue ordinary features of the common good in a sane and fair manner.
We Must All Hang Together
Some lessons from history and philosophy can help us think about our present crisis.
Birth Rates, Immigration, and National Identity
There are two ways to deal with global population trends; both have problems.
A Lordship for Me, But Not for Thee
Exposing the fallacies of our erstwhile aristocrats.
How Progressives Rewrote American History
Despite these modern progressives’ positions of privilege and systemic advantage, a new constitutionalist critique of progressivism prevents them from claiming final victory.
Thoughts on an Awful Anniversary
The decision to drop the bomb was founded on the conviction that a blockade and invasion of Japan would cause massive casualties.
The Conservative Case Against the Founding?
Not everyone who calls himself an “American conservative” can also be called a friend of the founders.
How Could the Founders Have Done Better?
In a regime of equality, excellence and superiority are allowed to thrive while the ordinary virtues of frugality, industry, piety, and fidelity are protected.
Do Not Feed the Cancer
Forget Tokyo. What did you do yesterday that made the sun shine a little more dimly in your home, or a little brighter?
Un-Lockeing the American Idea
We need to rediscover the vocabulary of the founders if we are to make a success of a new vocabulary for a new Right.
The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion
For one thing, the argument isn’t new. It's partly rooted in the 14th Amendment.
The American Regime and Its Moral Ground
When the founders took up the task of framing a new Constitution, they had to draw upon those principles of law and moral truths that were there—as they had to be—before the Constitution.
Kudzu and Equality
It may be a fool’s errand to claim the same ideals as those espoused by the Left but call for one’s own interpretation of them, as the theoretical and rhetorical kudzu continues to spread.
Paleontology
If I thought the paleoconservative appeal to tradition alone were sufficient to support all the policies sketched near the beginning of this article, I would submit to it cheerfully.