The voices of conventional wisdom are telling us once again that the Right should reinvent itself, or rather return to its true principles, by abandoning the social issues. Dwight Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater got along without them, so why can't we do the same today? Instead of worrying about how ...

Contemporary liberalism claims open-ended tolerance as its guiding principle. The claim is an odd one, since every social order accepts some patterns of conduct but not others. Otherwise it would not be a social order at all. It should not be surprising that on examination the claim turns out to be ...

Architecture is not politics, but it's relevant to politics because we create our physical environment in the image of what we believe about the world generally. We need to make sense of our surroundings. If they're too much at odds with the world we believe in, they seem stupid, phony and aside ...

Austin Bramwell tells us the tax code favors the rich at the expense of everyone else. As an argument he gives some examples that very likely loom large in his estate planning practice. Anecdote and instance are rhetorically effective, but their moral depends on how the story is told. More ...