Donald Trump and the People’s Existential Threat
This is an update on a theme I raised in February 2016, "Donald Trump and the People" as I think the people see their existential threat more clearly now than they did seven months ago.
In...
The Missing “Buckley-Factor” in Publius Decius Mus’ Historic Essay
If you haven't heard, a fellow (I assume) named Publius Decius Mus penned an anonymous, 10-page essay at the Claremont College website, entitled the "Flight 93 Election" It's a near-masterpiece, even historic. While I...
Elitism, Where Libertarians and Now Much of Conservatism, are Joined at the Heart with...
And how they are joined is neither political nor philosophical. It is entirely psychological.
This is important to understand, because Karl Marx’s original followers were all academicians. It would be at least two generations before they would...
How the Tea Party Replaced National Review as the Intellectual Standard Bearer for Conservatism
In March 2011 I suggested that the Tea Party had become the intellectual antidote to the Left, which was never really that difficult. But it was not so much to tweak the Left that I wrote that as to serve notice...
The Last Word on Nullification is that There is Never a Last Word
I sent a copy of Publius-Huldah's excellent legal essay to my son, who gobbled it up and then took the occasion of his morning drive to call me about it. You see, he's a...