The Real Reagan
Getting beyond the caricatures of the conservative president.
Happy Trans Visibility Day
The replacement of Easter by this new feast day in the progressive liturgical calendar is a provocation.
On Nations and Nationhood
At the intersection of politics and principle.
Progressive “Democracy” Strikes Back
Donald Tusk’s coalition government represents the authoritarian face of the new “anti-authoritarian” movement.
The Paradoxical Perversities of Postcolonial Ideology
This ideology is incompatible with the flourishing of the West.
No to Christian-Communist Collaboration
Pope Francis’s dalliance with a tyrannical ideology needs to be confronted.
The Delusions of Postcolonial Ideology
Caricatures and lies abound in the attempt to subvert the West.
Wretched of the University
Postcolonialism rivals Jacobinism and Bolshevism in its systematic destruction of civil society.
Greatness Without Cruelty
Young Nietzscheans should look to Tocqueville as a more politically responsible source for a new politics.
The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish
This crisis is nothing new.
Getting Real About Realism
A brief discussion regarding theories of international relations.
Truth and Politics
How radical relativism leads to ideological fanaticism.
Refusing the “Great Refusal”
An anti-woke manifesto.
Populism Rightly Understood
Populists need to investigate the moral grounds on which ordered liberty is based.
The End of Ordered Liberty
The American ideal of self-government is increasingly inapplicable to our culture.
The Ukrainian Tragedy
Moralism, utopianism, and denunciations of all things Russian are not the answer in the present fight.
A Time for Greatness, Courage, and Moderation
Our dark hour calls for a recovery of the statesman’s virtues.
American Maoism
Rage meets self-pity as the permanently offended root out false thought.
The Budapest Option
Contrary to the Davos consensus, Hungary is not a hotbed of “illiberalism.”
The Thought Police Come for Miss Marple
Our woke commissars continue their march.
Churchill and the Academic War on Greatness
Ideological "scholars" continue to attack one of the West's preeminent statesmen.
England in Crisis
Britain faces major challenges.
We’re No Angels
Digital Gnostics and the flight from embodied personhood.
The New Age of Uniformity
Don’t fall for the lies of the postmodern Left.
Benedict’s Middle Path
A model of moderation, discernment, and erudition
The New “Reds”
Saddling conservatives with the color of communist tyranny is repugnant.
Liberty’s Limits
The indispensable political framework of rights and freedom.
Rescuing Rights from Themselves
The civic framework of freedom.
C.S. Lewis: A Political Primer
We must recover the spirit of freedom.
The Specter of “Fascism”
Hypocrite technocrats denounce their opponents as anti-democratic extremists while eviscerating self-determination.
The Church over the Abyss
The substitution of radical social politics for doctrine spells doom for millions of Catholic faithful.
The Work of Virtue
A free republic depends on citizens who can take their prosperity into their own hands.
Witness to a Crisis
The spiritual testimony of Whittaker Chambers holds up after seventy years.
Tribal Politics
The pitfalls of conservatism without practical reason or natural law.
Burke, Our Contemporary
There is wisdom to be found in obligation.
Red Tears
The Russian people were the foremost victims of the Soviet regime.
The Courage to See
The brave moderation and manly prudence of Edmund Burke.
Don’t Hate Yourself
Reject the oikophobic temptation.
Macron’s Tepid Triumph
France deserves better than a politics of technocratic Europhilia.
What Does Our Nation Mean to Us?
Rejecting the culture of hate.
In Defense of Political Reason
The liberal order rests on conservative, not rationalist, foundations.
Theorizing the Moral Foundations of Democracy
The American Founding was not based on “neutral principles.”
