American conservatives, assuming they again achieve electoral success at the local, state, and national levels, need to decide how to approach governing in the 2020s. Conservative governance presumes there is something left to conserve after decades of a liberal-leftist revolutionary…
A friend of mine who has moved on to the next world said to me once, “So many people here in America and the West are great at abstract thinking of the highest sort, yet so many of them seem…
Rush lives. In a wonderful, newly published tribute to the late Rush Limbaugh, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, and Rush’s brother, David Limbaugh, have gathered Rush’s friends and colleagues — and not least, transcripts of Rush’s words of wisdom —…
Having engineered passage of the Mississippi law that resulted in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, I have wondered about the larger political implications of reversing Roe v. Wade. The answer is slowly coming to light, revealing serious divisions between…
On Tuesday, the third U.S.-based National Conservatism Conference — “NatCon 3” — wrapped up here in Miami. It was the second straight National Conservatism Conference held in Florida and the largest NatCon conference yet; overall, there have now been three…
The Right doesn’t usually believe in unilateral disarmament — except when it comes to politics. The false idea, common among those of us right of center, is that we should play by civilized rules even when our opponents don’t. Perhaps…
A reader who calls himself BillyBob left a comment after my recent op-ed in The American Spectator on the Never Trumpers’ attack on the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker. Here is what BillyBob wrote: Liz [Cheney] is actually a…
Two recent op-ed articles in the Washington Times and their accompanying illustrations manifest a troubling habit of modern conservatives — all too often, they accept and help promote the conventional liberal version of history in a futile effort to lend…
Few things in the political landscape are as important as language and communication. So why have many conservatives jettisoned semantic clarity? As a 22-year-old young man and university student, I am deeply aware of the influence that language and semantics…
