Can Grown-Ups Save Conservatism? an Observation
Considering what has happened to conservatism, and conservatives, politically, ideologically, culturally, even morally, in the past eleven months because of the rise of Donald Trump, it may come as a surprise to you that I wrote the...
Good and Evil, and Donald Trump
After only three days, it's clear that the anti-Donald Trump crowd hasn't all been created equally. Especially those whose opposition to Trump seems to be based on some sort of professed faith about Evil.
As I have written several times,...
Meet @theRealDonaldTrump
I have to tell a true story to establish my simpatico with the self-made man who doesn't quite fit in with the local establishment.
When newly married, in law school, a man moved into my wife's...
Will Establishment Elitism Win Again in 2016?
This is one of my favorite "Famous Common People I Have Known" stories (available at Amazon) about a man who personified the turned-up-nose imagry we are seeing once again in this new election cycle. It...
The Most Important Truth About Donald Trump
...is that almost everything said about Donald Trump is actually about something else.
Several weeks ago I began what turned out to be a series on Donald Trump, when I suggested that Ted Cruz should let Donald Trump go...
Wyatt Earp’s Justifications for Killing off the Cowboys
"For my handling of the situation at Tombstone, I have no regrets. Were it to be done over again, I would do exactly as I did at that time. If the outlaws and their friends and allies imagined that they could intimidate or exterminate...