Libertarian Populism Isn’t Really Libertarian Or Populist
Libertarian populism has lately been generating a great deal of attention on the Right. Many believe it represents a viable reform agenda for the GOP. Dave Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor in June lent...
View ArticlePrivilege Theory Destroys The American Ideal Of Equality
In this month’s National Review, Shelby Steele offers an extremely insightful article on how liberals came to dominate American culture. The gist of his argument, more fully laid out in his book “White...
View ArticleYes, Privilege Exists, But Government Can’t Fix It
David Marcus says it’s time for the Right to take privilege theory seriously. This mutant of Marxist class warfare attempts to justify extensive and highly personal government intervention into all our...
View ArticleStop Equality-Mongering Before It Destroys Us
It’s only been a few centuries since the idea of equality became a staple of Western political conversations. In that time, it has brought about some substantial benefits. We no longer divide our...
View ArticleThe Left’s Radical Consistency On RFRA
Many conservatives have been scratching their heads over the uproar in Indiana and Arkansas as those two states passed Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. The progressive Left has led the uproar in...
View ArticleFeminism Is Losing Its Cage Fight With Multiculturalism
Late last year the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, openly discussed what he considers an obvious “fact”: that men and women are not equal. He argued that Islam has made it clear that a...
View ArticleModern Conservatism’s Enduring Creative Tension
The preeminent conservative intellectual forum called the Philadelphia Society devoted its recent meeting to exploring the roots of its philosophy, especially conservatism’s mid-twentieth-century...
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3 Reasons It’s Not Libertarians Making Americans Unhappy
It’s official: the people of Switzerland and Scandinavia are still happier than everyone else, according to the “World Happiness Report 2015,” a 172-page analysis by the United Nations Sustainable...
View ArticleAmericans Buy Into Marxist Family Planning
If you’ve never read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1848, you should—especially right now. To be sure, reading this awful screed against human nature can be...
View ArticleGnostic Mysticism Grounds Modern Progressive Ideology
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”—Horace For those of us watching a country race toward madness, this insight of the Roman poet is a last ray of hope. Whether...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need To be Religious To Believe Abortion Is Wrong
The horrific tragedy of Michelle Wilkins losing her unborn child exposes our intuitions on moral and judicial truths. The young Colorado woman, seven months pregnant, was attacked in March in a false...
View ArticleHow To Find Answers For The WDBJ Shooting In Virginia
What makes an act of violence so emotionally draining on those who encounter it is not so much the amount of blood that was shed, but the amount of inexplicability surrounding the bloodshed. Turn on...
View ArticleA Liberal Pundit’s Guide To Kim Davis
The incarceration and subsequent release of Kim Davis has been a sensation in the liberal press. Virtually every liberal outlet participated in the feeding frenzy. This is easy to understand. If we...
View ArticleBarbarians At The Gates Of Realville
Conservatives are realizing we haven’t just lost a few arguments on social issues, global warming, or the economy. We wish. Rather, like something out of “The Matrix,” the very cosmic architecture that...
View ArticleYou Must Earn Respect Before You Can Enjoy Love
I visited my daughter’s school not long ago and saw a sign saying students would most remember the teacher who had touched a student’s heart. While it is indisputable that touching someone’s heart...
View ArticleHow Our New Definition Of Freedom Causes Cruelty
Chinese economics professor Xie Zuoshi has suggested employing economic rationality to address his country’s staggering imbalance between the sexes. Within five years, something like 30 million Chinese...
View ArticleWhat Marco Rubio Actually Got Wrong About Philosophers
Marco Rubio took social media by storm Tuesday night with his declaration that America has a dearth of welders and an excess of philosophers. Welding, he informed us, is more lucrative, and more...
View ArticleCampus Insanity? Blame The Philosophers
After this week’s debate, Marco Rubio unveiled his newest attack ad. This video is, of course, an old philosophy joke that’s been floating around the Web for years. But it just may have a point. It...
View ArticleConservatism’s Essential Element Is Experience
What is the essential element of conservatism? Beneath the perennial debate over who is and is not a conservative, 60 years after William F. Buckley founded National Review in November 1955, lies the...
View ArticleHow Tocqueville Schooled Bernie Sanders 200 Years Ago
Since a self-described democratic socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is a major contender for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, and polls suggest one-third of American millennials and over...
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