PBS premiered “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley” coincidentally on the same day that I visited Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library to explore William F. Buckley Jr.’s correspondence. The epistolary Buckley encountered Friday morning clashed as much as he meshed with the…

Between unnecessary plastic surgeries to remove buccal fat and hideous architecture, our society has become one in which we’ve commoditized artificial beauty. In fact, it’s now so pervasive that we may finally be reaching the point where society starts to develop a hunger for real, authentic…

For all its gesticulations about “free speech,” the conservative mainstream often plays a supporting role in America’s censorship regime. It’s a two-step dance: The Right styles itself as the sworn defender of free speech and the mortal enemy of censorship…

Sixty years ago, James Burnham’s book Suicide of the West was published to much acclaim from conservatives and much criticism by liberals. It was Burnham’s last book (other than a collection of his National Review columns titled The War We…

“Political language,” wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Nowhere is this more evident today than in the phrase “liberal democratic values,” which is…

I still recall when my mother’s favorite daytime TV show was Dr. Phil Primetime. I’ve always liked the guy — just never enough to sit down for hours at a time to watch him sort through people’s messy lives. However,…

We are the conservatives, and we like good, truth, and beauty. That is, we like Pope John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ivanka Trump. We also like beer, but I don’t want to detract from the solemnity of the…

Conservative groups today are splintering into sects squabbling over what true conservatism is. The last Republican president to unite these sects was Ronald Reagan. He won election and then reelection by wide margins, turned over the White House to his…