This is a cautionary tale directed at those who self-identify pretty much as the title suggests. This is not to say that Christ did not love such people, which weighs on me terribly, because it is something I find almost…
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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 by radicals such as Ted Cruz…
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 to “some conservatives”, as I postscript’d in the title,…
After Brexit, We Shoot the Bureaucrats
“Every successful analysis begins with a unified theory.” Some Americans credit Donald Trump for the success of Brexit, while others are saying Trump owes Brexit for bumping his campaign toward the presidency. Actually, both are true to a point, but in a reciprocating way. But…
American Theology Simply Stated, The Transcendence of Liberty
The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in USSR Ukraine. Around three tables pushed together, in a dimly lit room, in early-winter, there…