Nationalism Is Not Enough
President Trump’s furious admonition to four extreme leftist members of Congress to educate themselves in the miseries of their ancestral homelands was met with spiteful […]
Harry Jaffa
What Mona Charen Will Never Know
A few years ago while living at the homeless shelter and working next door at Jimmy John’s, I got an email from this development VP […]
Making Constitutional Law Great Again
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Claremont-trained political philosophers represent some of the strongest voices […]
The Causes of Steve King’s Moral Relativism
In the course of their public responsibilities and acting on concrete political problems, Congressmen should know better than to ask abstract questions—particularly when in the […]
The Crisis of the Republicans Divided
To understand the Republican Party today, in all its cluelessness, one needs to know what it was when it was founded. One needs to know […]
Harry Jaffa on Kavanaugh and the Crisis of America Divided
The centenary of Harry V. Jaffa’s birth was October 7. He passed away on January 10, 2015 after a career of scholarship and teaching that […]
Who Knows America Best? Politicians Can Teach Professors
In January I was invited to address the City Tavern Club on the occasion of the club’s annual Reagan Dinner. This year it was a […]
How to Win Our (Un)Civil War
Ken Masugi, whom I have known and respected since we met while studying under the late Harry Jaffa during President Reagan’s first term, thinks my […]
Be Better Than Evan McMullin
Making failed presidential candidate and radical NeverTrumper Evan McMullin look like the smart guy in the room is quite a trick. But commentators on one […]
Making Sense of the American Founding with Thomas G. West
What makes American freedom unique in the world? What have Americans forgotten in the 21st century that America’s Founders knew and took for granted? How […]
Crisis of A Strauss Divided
Steve Hayward has been a friend for more years than we’d like to count and his new book, Patriotism Is Not Enough, is a tour […]
Romancing Reactionaries: Andrew Sullivan, the Left, and Not Getting It
“Donald Trump is not being reasonable…. But, then, man does not live by reason alone, fortunately. Trump, who believes that excess can be a virtue, […]
Is Rush Limbaugh Right About the Declaration of Independence?
Rush Limbaugh has always had a keen talent for rooting out liberal assumptions. A gadfly to the ruling class, the broadcasting powerhouse has the unique […]
Rod Dreher, Meet Leo Strauss and Friends
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 […]