Protecting the Devils and the Saints

From Charles Cooke at National Review, Our Illiberal Moment: To be adequately maintained, classical liberalism demands three key virtues. Humility, so that each of society’s competing factions might comprehend that it will not always hold power. Tolerance, so that the...

Character and Ideas

I assess potential support for a political candidate based on demographics, philosophy or ideology, competence and character- in that specific order.  By demographics I do not mean race but realistic electability.  I may feel ideologically aligned with a Libertarian...

The One Place Republicans Cannot be Harassed

The illiberalism, intolerance and political correctness that invaded our college campuses has clearly spread to the Potomac. Students were allowed to shout down and disinvite speakers they disagreed with. To their credit Barak Obama and Michael Bloomberg and others on...

Sinners and Saints

from Victor Davis Hanson at National Review,  The Origins of Our Second Civil War But if campus materialism was at odds with classroom socialism, few seemed to notice. Instead, the idea grew up that one had no need to follow concretely the consequences of his abstract...

A Platform of Contempt

If I had passed out from shock last November on election day and just woke up I would observe a booming economy and stock market, a strong dollar, a substantial tax cut, corporations repatriating billions of dollars, record low unemployment, the lowest black...