After Jesus Christ, Natan Sharansky is George Bush's favorite philosopher. In early 2005, around the time of his second inaugural, the president praised Sharansky"ex-prisoner of the Soviet Gulag, former Israeli cabinet minister, and crusader for human rights"in effusive terms. Sharansky's ...
Rear-view Mirror Conservatism We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. ...
Between the warring camps vying for ownership of the true "American conservatism," a remarkable consensus has emerged around the status of Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. In the conservative house divided, almost everyone agrees that the president was the prophet of democratic imperialism ...
Christians on the right are used to witnessing attacks on their faith from atheistic leftists. Ever since the highly influential "cultural Marxists" of the Frankfurt School, it has become de rigeur for the chattering classes in the media and academe to tear down the historic faith of ...
The fact that neoconservatives have thought and acted in terms of secularized Judaism places them in the larger company of many other atheistic ideologues who were more than willing to bring heaven down to earth through political action. In the post-Holocaust age, it is not terribly shocking to ...