A Spanish magazine in which I write, Centinela, has given me a gift. It’s a white mug with a portrait of Chesterton and a slogan: “Being conservative is the new punk.” I’ve put it in the living room to remind…
Conservative thinkers and leaders who believe in foreign policy restraint met Thursday for an “emergency conference” in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Many of the speakers conjectured that the media and political elite are escalating the U.S.’s role in…
We’ll start this off with a YouTube video. It’s a radio segment from an appearance I had on Dan Proft’s morning show Thursday on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago. Proft had me on to talk about Tuesday’s column in…
A year has passed. That would be a year since Rush Limbaugh headed for the pearly gates on February 17, 2021, following a valiant fight against lung cancer. He has, as has been said by others, returned his “talent on…
There’s an email going around that suggests a refocusing away from the famous “three-legged stool” of anticommunism, social conservatism, and economic libertarianism, which served as the basis of modern conservatism from its founding in 1955 through to the rolling disaster…
The world is a complex and troubled place. We can’t fix it. To mature is to understand this. One of the big differences between liberals and conservatives is that the latter have already come to terms with the fact that…
I never engage in any activity that Winston Churchill would not have taken up. The old grouch from Woodstock despised anything but polo, and would no doubt be unamused with the whole business of sitting crossed-legged and rolling your eyes….
Almost everyone in the intellectual debate over the future of American conservatism these days seems to recognize that the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke is key to its resolution. At one time, Locke was the unquestioned inspiration for the ideals behind America’s Declaration…
“What are Republicans for?” Joe Biden asked in his press conference this week. “Name me one thing that they’re for.” Conservatives, sensing their time in the wilderness short, ask themselves, with increasing urgency, the same question: What do we stand…
