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…
Category: Elitism and Class
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 #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…