(Timely, and unedited from a 2010 essay at RedState.com. Since then, they’ve changed, I haven’t.) A caution to the non-religious: In what follows I use religious references from the Old Testament. They are intended as metaphors, or teaching tools. Still, this…
Category: Conservatism
Elitism, Where Libertarians and Now Much of Conservatism, are Joined at the Heart with the Left
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 begin spawning little bratlings (David…
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,…
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 fan of law prof Randy Barnett…
The #NeverTrump Ship of Fools
The political killing season has gotten more grisly, it seems, only because this time, the assassins seem to be losing. Since the rise of the internet media around 2006, finding ways to separate patriot voters from the herd and convince them to stay home seems to…