The Invisible Hand If you believe that America was created by an Invisible Hand, then logic requires you to also believe that America was also created for a purpose. Nowadays few of us really pause to think about what this purpose might be. While we may…
Donald Trump and the Common Man
I’ve written about this in other contexts over the past few years, but it’s time for another update considering the unexpected popularity of Donald Trump with segments of American society no one would have dreamed he could reach out to, or…
Reagan’s Magic, Was it His Style, or His Conservatism?
What is the “official” conservative position on illegal immigration? Or “anchor babies”? Ukraine? China? ISIS? Who decides? George Will? Rush Limbaugh? Mark Levin? Is there ever consensus among conservatives, even about what it is that defines conservatism? I disagree with…
On the Anatomy of a “Sea Change”
In the late 1950s it was finally decided that photographic histories of the holocaust could be made public and the book racks soon filled with them, although I was too young to buy them. But I could look at them, only at…
The Souls of the Establishment, A Morality Tale of Self-Destruction
“The Souls of Black Folk” was a classic study by W E B DuBois, 1903. Recommended. The title just seemed to fit here. First, like a true 14tn Century French bishop, Erick Erickson donned his mitre and scepter and preached…