In Defense of Chief Justice Roberts
Zachary Crippen: A defeat for Republicans in the short run; a victory for conservatives in the long run. Zac CrippenZac,…
Progressivism
Think Local, Act Local
Brian Brown: Learn the lessons of Facebook and Twitter: people don’t make friends, buy products, or vote because it’s good…
Foreign Policy and the Constitution
Yuval Levin’s constitutional conservatism leaves out one crucial thing: a respect for constitutional procedure. Connor EwingA member of the Humane…
Le Corbusier vs. Notre Dame: Let’s Not Rebuild Paris
What a ride on the London Underground teaches about the limits of human ability. Brian BrownBrian Brown loves building the…
America the Messianic
Anna Speckhard Richard M. Gamble, The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic…
Reformers Reforming Reforms
A similarly-alliterated follow-up to my post on overseas voting: I was struck as I wrote it by the fact that…
Abraham Lincoln and the Historian’s Profession
Civil War historian Allen Guelzo takes up the notion that all our big government problems can be traced to…Abraham Lincoln….
In Praise of Heresy: Updated
I wrote the post below a few days ago. It seems my timing was prescient. Now the Republican Party is…
In Praise of Heresy
Edmund Burke warned that eliminating religion was impossible – the religious impulse was natural to mankind, and if formal religion…
A Referendum on Nothing
Yesterday saw two Republicans win governorships in key states. The first was Virginia, a historically conservative state that has trended…
Political Religion and War
A few days ago, Andrew McCarthy wrote a commendably lengthy piece on democracy-building. A highlight: “Democracy hawks are another matter….
Mouth-Breathing Morons, Slurpee-Sucking Geeks, and Beer-Drinking Dufuses
In That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis warned that if man tried to conquer nature, he would only succeed in…
Re: English Liberty and American Liberty (Part II)
Various traditions in subsequent American political history have rejected Tocqueville’s distinction. The Confederate states rejected it, arguing for an ideological…
Re: English Liberty and American Liberty (Part I)
Recent conversations here have dealt frequently with “big government,” and with a chic alternative to big government in both its FDR and Bush varieties, namely Front Porch Republic localism.