Too many people pretend to have read The Wealth of Nations and I think it’s time to reclaim the importance of pretending to have read The Theory of Moral Sentiments. It is 301 years since Adam Smith was born and…
Las miradas de los actuantes parecen, en las instantáneas fotográficas de incidentes revolucionarios, mitad cretinas mitad dementes. In the candid snapshots of revolutionary incidents, the looks of the participants seem half cretinous, half-demented. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Marie Antoinette,…
Anglo-American conservatism is a rich intellectual inheritance. It is a tradition that has been cultivated and stewarded by towering intellects — John Adams, Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and dozens of others. The list of great conservative minds includes…
What does progressive conservatism mean? Labels can confuse more than they clarify, and sometimes they lie. People asked how Obamacare could raise healthcare costs. It was labeled the “Affordable Care Act.” And how could the mobs in Portland be dangerous?…
As we tear another sheet from our calendar, it’s time for us college students to head back to school. And for many members of the virtual-graduation generation, it will be our first time experiencing the real deal — unless the…
Identifying a problem is at best only half the job of fixing the world. Responsibility demands that we must determine whether any proposed solution to the problem will result in actual betterment. No one made this point more strongly that…
Man is by nature a tribal creature. For many thousands of years, human existence was defined by family connections, with ties of blood and marriage providing the social network that ensured cooperation and support necessary to sustaining life. Loyalty to…
I have tried to think of something appropriate to say upon the end of this endeavor at saving Western Civilization through journalism. Western Civilization remains unsaved. That is the first thought that comes to mind. What could I have been…
Few will deny that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has chutzpah. His latest address to the nation, setting out protocols and timelines for relaxing restrictions imposed in aid of combating coronavirus, does Boris proud in the arts of tergiversation. Breitbart…
