Woke Book Burning

From the Wall Street Journal, The Cancel Mob Comes Back for More by Bruce Gilley; Another benefit: Watching this latest boxcar roll by in the sorry train of cancel culture may finally convince my center-left friends that the situation is dire. In recent years, many...

Ancient Liberties and Newfangled Rights

from Bret Stephens at The New York Times,  Why Edmund Burke Still Matters At the core of Burke’s view of the revolution is a profound understanding of how easily things can be shattered in the name of moral betterment, national purification and radical political...

Political Zealotry

from Greg Weiner at National Review, Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, ‘All in All’: There is a Yiddish saying: When a man wears a white coat, a speck of dust makes it look dirty.  That is true enough, especially if one lives in a world devoid of nuance, where heroes...

NATO and Trump

from Jonah Goldberg at National Review A New World Disorder Civilization isn’t the opposite of nature, any more than a boat is the opposite of a river. Sailors harness the wind and adapt to the currents to make their progress forward. But if you ignore maintaining the...