“There’s a ladder that reaches up toward God”
Charlie, you see, has suffered enough. He’s gone to the Lord. He deserves his reward.
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Category: Conservatism
Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order
American conservatism exists to serve the people and the nation through the Constitution. This includes defending them against enemies foreign and domestic. And the fact is, elite institutions have become the people’s and the nation’s enemies. They are openly waging cultural war on those they ostensibly serve. They cannot be negotiated with or accommodated. They must be defunded, disbanded, and disempowered. The rewards for doing so—for putting American families first again—will be greater than we can know.
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National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism
The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture.
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Hillsdale’s Mission and the Politics of Freedom
Hillsdale has always been broadly partisan on behalf of freedom. Indeed we are required by the College’s charter document, written in 1844, to offer “sound learning” of the kind needed to preserve the blessings of “civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land.” In the early decades of Hillsdale’s history, that meant opposing slavery. In recent decades, it has meant opposing the centralization of comprehensive power that corrodes our Constitution and undermines our American way of life.
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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.
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America’s Cold Civil War
I fear America may be leaving the world of normal politics and entering the dangerous world of regime politics—a politics in which our political loyalties diverge more and more, as they did in the 1850s, between two contrary visions of the country.
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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.
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The Case Against Liberal Compassion
Much more than our rulers’ compassion, however, we deserve their respect—for us; our rights; our capacity and responsibility to feel and heal our own pains without their ministrations.
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Renewing the American Idea
American conservatism is about conserving something—principles that are timeless because they are true—to be renewed and applied in our time.
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Sagebrush Rebellion Redivivus
It is little wonder that there is talk of another Sagebrush Rebellion like that embraced by Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s.
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The Tea Party, Conservatism, and the Constitution
Today’s Tea Party has ambitions to become an ongoing force—maybe even the major force—in American conservatism.
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The Miracle of Freedom
Simply put, the American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen.
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