Obama Will Probably WinJuly 24, 2008 For better or worse, I think Obama is going to pull this thing off. I wrote in |
Iraq: The Money PitJuly 24, 2008 Iraq is the foreign policy equivalent of a money pit. Success is always just |
WarThe Pentagon Needs a ChoreographerJuly 22, 2008 To combat Islamic terrorists more effectively, the US government should spend |
The Paleo PersuasionJuly 14, 2008 I just re-read this piece from the late Sam Francis on “The Paleo Persuasion.” |
Obama: The Man of His TimesJuly 14, 2008 A fascinating piece from City Journal on the peculiar charisma of Obama, a |
Foreign PolicyCan America’s Nukes Deter Iran’s?July 13, 2008 Deterrence was profferred as a legitimate, noninterventionist solution to the |
Foreign PolicyLet’s Not Re-Fight the Last War in IranJuly 10, 2008 The Iraq Campaign has more or less discredited the idea of preemptive war to |
Climate Change: The Left’s Trojan HorseJuly 07, 2008 The movement of rhetoric from global warming to “climate change” is the most |
Charity Allows Us to Make Good Use of Any Truth About Our Fellow ManJuly 01, 2008 I disagree with the suggestion that we should be evasive about reality in the |
Tobacco & FirearmsAlcoholGun Rights, the Militia, and CommunityJune 29, 2008 During the Cold War, conservatives rightly pointed out that the collectivist |
Forward-Looking Foreign Policy After IraqJune 25, 2008 There is something rarefied and useless with the endless post-mortems brought |
Ranking Evils In WarJune 24, 2008 All this rhetoric from Hitchens and others about the Holocaust justifying |
WarSticking It OutJune 22, 2008 Conservatives historically have taken pride in their hard-headedness. It is |
Must Conservatives Be Pacifists?June 16, 2008 One of the worst things about Bush’s idealist war for democracy is that it has |
TerrorismWho Guards the Guardians?June 15, 2008 The Supreme Court has provided another nail in the coffin of executive war |
The Gentle Liberalism, The Hateful LiberalismJune 12, 2008 Paul Gottfried notes that Obama puts stress upon the traditional Democratic |
Buy a GunJune 09, 2008 Oddly enough, white males will be the swing voters this election. And if |
PoliticsLiberalism Forbids An AwakeningJune 06, 2008 Liberalism views much of history as a morality play. The past was very bad. |
Britain in 1939 is not the United States in 2008June 03, 2008 I read Pat Buchanan’s latest article with interest. We, like most |
WarThe Afghanistan FallacyJune 01, 2008 America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan both involve fractious societies, weak |
“Dreams of My Father” Becomes Your Daddy’s Worst NightmareMay 28, 2008 “Obama needs to do more to communicate the facts about his relatives and his |
The Churchill ControversyMay 28, 2008 I’m surprised at the strength of Buchanan’s criticism of Winston Churchill. |
ConservatismWhat is Paleoconservatism?May 24, 2008 At the end of the Cold War, conservatives found themselves in a state of |
The State, Marriage, and Contract LawMay 23, 2008 We’re asked quite predictably by proponents of gay marriage, “Why is the state |
The House of CardsMay 22, 2008 I am surprised to be having such an acrimonious discussion with fellow |
ConservatismAn Imaginary Edmund BurkeMay 22, 2008 It seems everyone wanted to be on the side of progress in the Seventies, but |