Expert Failure

From The Wrong Kind of Abundance by Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch. Zweig intelligently catalogues a number of underlying factors that positioned the American expert class to make all the wrong decisions while trying to make the most of the crisis, putting it to the...

A Conservative Revolution

Some historians contend that the American Revolution was not a revolution readily compared to others in history.  It can be distinguished as a War for Independence or as historian H.W Brands called it, Our First Civil War in his book by that title.  Given its close...

The Dangers of the Academic Bubble

From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Walter Russell Mead Excerpt: COWEN: How would you change or improve the training that goes into America’s foreign policy elite? MEAD: Well, I would start by trying to draw people’s attention to that, over the last 40...

Principles and Ideology

Principles are how the world works. Ideologies are how we want the world to work or how we accept the reality of how we want the world to work.  Principles are not accountable to ideologies; ideologies are accountable to principles. Solutions that become principles...

Liberty is Boring

From Kevin Williamson at National Review, A Marxist Homecoming: One of the political difficulties of conservatism — and here I mean American conservatism, not the imported kind — is that by its nature it does not offer much in the way of novelty, excitement, or even...