In 1951, a brash, young college graduate sent shock waves through the American establishment. Bill Buckley (Yale ’50) published his instant bestseller, God and Man at Yale. In what was to become Buckley’s well-known style, he laid bare the “extraordinarily…
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…
Packing the Supreme Court with four leftist justices. Expanding the U.S. Senate to add four Democratic senators by making states out of Democratic Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Abolishing the filibuster. Abolishing the police. Abolishing the Second Amendment. Effectively abolishing…
To say Rush Limbaugh revolutionized media understates matters. He revolutionized media as he revitalized a medium suffering an agonizing death that started sometime between the premiere of I Love Lucy on CBS Television and the goodbye episode of Yours Truly, Johnny…
Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits By Joseph Epstein (Axios, 505 pages, $24) For readers yearning for a break from the near nonstop insanity 2020 has brought down on us — and who wouldn’t be just now? — boy have…
Epigraph of the Series “the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition their Government for redress of grievances.” U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Taxonomy for the Series “If you … then you are a … ” peaceably assemble/petition … protester…
Perhaps because the date was July 4, it struck me as unpatriotic when journalist and novelist James Wolcott tweeted the following about his fellow Americans: One of the many things the pandemic has taught us is that the phrase “the…
In William F. Buckley’s inaugural book God and Man at Yale, then-famed Professor Henry Steele Commager was cited for his belief that university faculty should have total control over the educational marketplace. In Professor Commager’s view, consumers and financers of…
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu exhorts the reader to know the enemy. Those engaged in the latest attacks on the Federalist Society plainly don’t know theirs. Let me offer a little history lesson because, as the LCD Soundsystem…
