Conservatism lost one of its most colorful characters yesterday. Angelo Codevilla, longtime writer and professor, expert on foreign policy, and every bit the curmudgeon, died at the age of 78. Codevilla was quite the character. Acerbic, sarcastic, cranky, ornery, prickly,…
The author of the Trump-promoted, best-selling, and wordless Reasons to Vote for Democrats has released a new book, and this time it contains actual words. And dare I say wise ones. In his recently published Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,…
Journalist David Marcus presents an insightful picture of today’s divided conservative movement that cannot be ignored by serious thinkers on the right, especially those who identify with Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley Jr., and the modern conservatism they proclaimed. Reagan…
President Biden’s address to U.S. troops stationed in England on his way to the recent G-7 Summit referenced lines from a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to emphasize the need for multilateralism in a rapidly changing world. …
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill Monday that would have prohibited children from receiving medical treatments that attempt to “transition” them to a different gender. These treatments include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone, double mastectomies, vaginoplasties,…
Every generation chooses the dramas it requires as an excuse to give others a hard time. Too many people wake up thinking that grave injustices are being committed in Africa, and too few people wake up, look in the mirror,…
More than a half century ago, amidst the tumultuous ’60s, the great thinker and National Review senior editor Frank S. Meyer questioned what there is for conservatives to conserve. “In a revolutionary age,” Meyer wrote, conservatism “can lead only to…
Your author yields to no one in the admiration of one Ronald Wilson Reagan, the greatest American leader of the Cold War era, who accomplished, through courage and foresight, what upon his election was considered impossible — total victory over…
Washington I met Rush Limbaugh before he became a god. It was the mid-1980s. Our careers had begun but had not taken off. Rush had a radio talk show on Sacramento station KFBK-AM 1530. I worked in the California legislature….
