I was really hoping I could put this column off just a little bit longer. As millions of Americans did. But there was no denying the end was coming for Rush Limbaugh, the greatest radio personality in the history of…
Unsurprisingly, the Right and Left have diametrically opposed long-term goals for Trump’s impeachment. The Right wants impeachment over — whatever the outcome — in short order and to prevent Trump from undermining conservatism’s populist potential. The Left wants to make…
Among the characteristics that distinguish conservatives from liberals is that we have a pretty firm grip on reality while liberals keep insisting on fantasies such as, “We don’t know whether socialism works because it’s never really been tried.” Reality, as…
For several hours last Wednesday, an insurrectionist mob attacked a joint session of Congress and prevented it from performing its constitutional duty to count the votes cast in the Electoral College to certify the results of a presidential election. The…
Twenty-twenty is the Year of the Woman. For real this time. Amy Coney Barrett is the first-ever female originalist justice to sit on the Supreme Court. A record number of conservative women were just elected to the House and Senate….
Has the age-old conflict between liberals and conservatives ceased to matter? To put it another way, has the philosophical debate between left and right devolved into the semi-comic spectacle of “two bald men fighting over a comb”? That is how…
It is sufficiently obvious as to not require detailed explanation that in the modern era, movements for change require intellectuals, activists, and foot soldiers at scale in order to gain traction in the public square, much less achieve some measure…
Conservatives mostly consider the modern progressive a-wokening as irreligious, even immoral and atheistic. But the other side more than returns the compliment, believing conservatives morally and socially bigoted and corrupt. As the great historian Eric Voegelin tried to tell us…
These remarks were prepared for delivery at the spring meeting of the Philadelphia Society in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 28, 2020. The meeting was canceled due to the ongoing crisis. In the late summer of 2015, I called John…
