Liberalism and Paternalism

From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Uses and Abuses of Democracy: Democracy, meaning “rule by the people,” is a word that entered English in the late 16th century to describe a contrast with the other main forms of government in the Western...

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...

The Nature of Knowledge

Modern Conservatism is based on two premises. The first is that man’s nature is both permanent and flawed. Man is capable of great accomplishments, altruism, creativity, intelligence and beauty. He is also capable of violence, tribalism, greed, lust, and most of all,...

Entitlement and Gratitude

Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: The American Founding’s glory is that those English colonists took their cousins’ tradition, purified it into a...

Passion and Persuasion

Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: Yet today’s political culture increasingly rejects persuasion, recognized as far back as Aristotle as the essence of...