Why Religious Believers May Support an Irreligious Man
It has puzzled some that evangelicals and other religious people are supporting Donald Trump. He is twice divorced, boasts of many affairs, and seems to know nothing of scripture. In religious matters,...
View ArticleAfter Administration
Do we need a theory of managerial class disintegration? Such an ambitious question can at the least be ventured given our headlines: Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, the European Union and the larger rise of the...
View ArticlePeter Lawler, A Year Gone By
It’s already been a year since Peter Lawler died. The shock has worn off, the initial tributes composed and published, the wonderful memorial service experienced. What remains are the memories and the...
View ArticleWelcome to the Party, Pal
The electoral system in the United States almost assures that politics will be divided into two major coalitions. Most of us accept that America’s primary schism is between progressives and...
View ArticleChecks & Balances Responds
Recently, I wrote a post that challenged Checks & Balances—the new conservative and libertarian group that has formed to raise questions about President Trump and the Trump Administration—to...
View ArticleTrump, Recusals, and William Barr
One of the interesting aspects of the investigation of Donald Trump has been the role of the recusals in the process. While some aspects of these recusals have received significant attention, others...
View ArticleReckoning With January 6
William F. Buckley brought the conservative movement into the mainstream by disassociating it from radical and repugnant elements like anti-Semitism. The populist right apparently sees its function as...
View ArticleThe Muddled Messaging of the COVID Vaccines
On December 16, 2021, President Biden channeled his inner Jonathan Edwards in issuing his The Unvaccinated in the Hands of an Angry Fauci speech. While the White House did not issue its remarks with...
View ArticleThe Permanence of Progressive Conservatism
George Hawley’s review of my book, Progressive Conservatism, reveals an imperfect understanding of the Republican Party, conservatism, and America. He certainly has a very different understanding of...
View ArticleStuck in the Middle with Hayek
In 1944, Friedrich Hayek wrote in “Why the Worst Get on Top” in his The Road to Serfdom: It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program—on the...
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