Today we remember a great man who died to uphold universal, timeless values. I mean, of course, King Louis XVI"murdered at the hands of ultranationalist Jacobins (no, I ...
In response to criticism over racially incendiary comments in his old newsletters, Ron Paul told Reason, "Martin Luther King is one of my heroes because he believed in ...
There is a developing conventional wisdom that Mitt Romney primarily appeals to and represents "economic conservatives" within the Republican coalition, a view that has ...
My old friend Rod Dreher recently opined on Belief.net that it was inappropriate for Gov. Huckabee to claim he was defending the Confederate flag—in an attempt to outflank ...
A new column by Michael Gerson is best read aloud with an old recording of "We Are The World, We Are the Children" playing the background. If there ever was a cross ...
The answer to this question seems to differ wildly depending on who is responding and when in the last year they have been giving the answer. There is a virtual consensus of ...
News pundits have been exploring the political battle now raging between Hillary and Obama and their respective followings about who was most responsible for the civil ...
The hysteria that is energizing the campaign to smear Ron Paul and his supporters as "racist" is reaching a crescendo of viciousness, as the Beltway "libertarian" ...
So there we were, at the storied Elaine’s restaurant, Taki, R. Emmet Tyrell, Lewis Lapham, and several other luminaries… but I couldn’t help feeling (sorry, ...
A few weeks ago, I chastised Mitt Romney for responding to Tim Russert's question about the past racial policies of the Mormon Church by highlighting his father's opposition to ...
Like many a corporate "rebranding" effort, Mitt Romney's political persona has gone through a series of remarkable transformations this past year: he began as a dynamic ...
Most of you probably know first-hand how outrageously biased Faux News has been towards the Ron Paul campaign. Beyond excluding him from one of the debates"but including ...
Well, not exactly, but I am very happy to report that Daniel McCarthy has become the chief writer on the "The Daily Dose," the Ron Paul campaign's new official blog. ...
Well, he beat Benito in Michigan—and the Second Coming of Reagan, too. Even the Los Angeles Times is forced to sit up and take notice. Even if the Paul campaign winds up ...
In November, I heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hold forth before a full auditorium at Kenyon College. RFK Jr. appears to rank second only to Al Gore in rabid environmentalist ...
In the NY Times, the always provocative Steven Pinker has an extended, very interesting analysis of the evolving science of evolutionary psychology. Or should I say ...