The Canons of Conservatism, “Those Other Guys”, and the Veterans, A Preamble
William F Buckley, Jr. was the founding figure of modern conservatism in America. He wrote God and Man at Yale when he was 25, and wrote many books afterward until he died in 2008.
But he had an extra...
“An Extremity of Nominal Democracy”
Barbara Tuchman was one of my two favorite historians, (the other is still alive). She published The First Salute in 1988, then died of a stroke early the next year, so this book was to...
A Tale of Two Mobs
Since 2006 I'd watched Republicans, including many conservatives, fed up with Party choices going back to Bob Dole in ‘96, hand our government over to first the Congressional Democrats, then, even after the Democrat's dark side...
Was Jonah Goldberg a Better Thinker 10 Years Ago Than he is Today?
There was a great line spoken by Lee Marvin in "The Professionals" (1966):
"Some women have the ability to turn boys into men, while other women have the ability to turn some other men into boys".
Note...
Charles Krauthammer, America’s Greatest Tory, a Postmark
I wrote the essay that follows in Jan 2015, almost 6 months before Donald Trump announced his candidacy. So read in that context, for the conversation was more about the hard solutions being offered...