Explaining America to Millennials
"You are lost to history"- George Orwell, 1984
Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, is one of the most influential conservatives in America. Moreover, he does more than just talk about it, which also makes...
Winning Changes Everything
"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse." (Richard III, Acr 5, Scene 4)
"A man without a horse is a foot"-- Col Sherman Potter
More than the view changes once we mount a horse...
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...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...