Pick Your Revolution

The American Revolution of 1776 can best be understood by comparing it to the French Revolution of 1789; one led to a political document that empowered the rise of a great nation and the other led to a reign of terror and centuries of devastation. Both claimed liberty...

Acid Pragmagtism

  “The result is an ideology that doesn’t know why it upholds and cherishes its ideas. And if you don’t know why you cherish your ideas, you’re going to have a hard time recognizing when it’s time to move on to something else. As William Voegeli puts it in his...

The Folly of Pragmatism

“Taken on its own terms, pragmatism’s folly is that it separates intelligence from wisdom. Its greatest sins are arrogance and deceit, including self-deceit. It is arrogant because it assumes the individual—particularly the expert—can know everything he needs to know...

When the Parties Abandon Ideology

From National Review, George Will writes Weak Political Parties Smooth the Way for Demagogues: Rauch’s thesis is that increased polarization has little to do with ideas and much to do with hostile feelings — “negative partisanship” — about others. “It’s not so much...

A Checklist of Priorities

Episode 38 of the Remnant Podcast is a discussion between the host, Jonah Goldberg and guest Russ Roberts from Econtalk.   I strongly recommend this series and I encourage you to read Goldberg’s latest, The Suicide of the West, and Liberal Fascism (2008). In the...