Christopher DeMuth, the respected public policy analyst, has emerged in recent months as the presiding figure of the national conservatism movement. He says that he has chosen to move on from fusionism, which has informed American conservatism for more than…
Right. This is exactly what happens when you leave everything in the hands of Papa State. You discover that he is a lousy father. If he were flesh and blood, he would be the typical father who gives his baby…
Well, this is it. The final Five Quick Things of 2021. Have you had enough yet? Are you among our collective national Roberto Durans bellowing “No Mas” at a truly awful year? Of course you are. What are you, a…
I’m not sure if Fyodor Dostoevsky was thinking of Maria Sharapova when he wrote in The Idiot that “beauty will save the world.” But I am. The Miss America pageant turns 100 this week, and I can’t think of a…
Every month, my work takes me driving on country roads through the Amish country of eastern Ohio in Holmes, Coshocton, and Tuscarawas Counties. I look forward to it, except if the weather is bad and those roads pose a challenge….
What’s wrong with conservatism in 2021? Nothing … and everything. Nothing is wrong with conservatism because, applied correctly, it works. The ideals of our nation’s Founding Fathers work, and those are what conservatism seeks to conserve. No fault can be…
Over the past four years, a loosely organized group of wonkish college students, disgruntled journalists, exhausted political operatives, and a couple of heterodox public figures have denounced the lack of conviction from the conservative establishment. They call themselves populists, post-liberals,…
I was lucky enough to see the beginnings of modern American conservatism in New York after a visit to my university by the new movement’s prime mover William F. Buckley Jr. — and a bit later by becoming mesmerized by…
David French is typical of a kind of Christian thinking that New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari calls “French-ism.” In a takedown of the Dispatch writer for First Things, Ahmari describes French-ism as “more a persuasion or a sensibility than…
