We can see today the totalitarian impulse among powerful forces in our politics and culture. We can see it in the rise and imposition of doublethink, and we can see it in the increasing attempt to rewrite our history.
Orwell’s 1984 and Today
Thoughts on the Current Crisis
Going forward, our best leaders will eschew political gamesmanship and work to control our borders, fix our public health agencies, and end our dependence on China and other foreign countries for goods that are essential to our national health and security. We must prepare ourselves to face the next pandemic without surrendering our way of life.
Four Pillars: Educating for America
Colleges today are increasingly collections of hostile identity groups, each clamoring against the crimes of the other. Students are not invited to step outside themselves, to step outside their own time, and to look at things as they have been understood by the best over time. If they did that, they would then learn and grow not by invention but by discovery.
Do We Need Our Country Anymore?
From this history we learn that it is not the nation-state, but the kinds of nation-states that matter. From the birth of political philosophy in ancient Athens, it has been understood in the West that the difference between good and bad regimes, just as between lives lived well and lives lived badly, is all-important.
Three Lessons of Statesmanship
If we study that war and the actions of its profoundest statesman, we can find some lessons to guide us today.
A More American Conservatism
If American conservatism means anything, then, it means the things found at the beginning of America, when it became a nation.
Property Rights and Religious Liberty
Many Christians, while they cherish religious liberty, seem to believe that property rights, and the commerce that arises from the establishment of property rights, are somehow un-Christian. At the same time, a lot of free marketers seem to think that all we need are property rights and the rest will take care of itself. Neither […]
Wave Elections: What They Mean
Increasingly large majorities of the people consistently profess themselves afraid of their government. They think it too big.
A Rebirth of Liberty and Learning
Think of the definition of “reality”; then think of making one’s own reality. Do you see that it destroys the meaning of the word to use it that way? A Tribute to Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher is one of the great prime ministers in British history, and one of the longest serving, at least in continuous times.