On the Continuing Relevance of Frank Meyer's Fusionism
Liberty and virtue are not merely compatible, but complementary, or so I would suggest.
Liberty and virtue are not merely compatible, but complementary, or so I would suggest.
No, states can't use the 10th Amendment to overturn the First Amendment.
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We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
The integralist right's foolish crush on the man who once ruled Portugal
Conservatives would no doubt use government differently than liberals, but libertarians have good reason to doubt that the results will be better.
I interviewed him on Book TV about his new book.
If MAGA conservatives want libertarians to be part of their tribe, they should halt their attacks on the free market.
Is the senator's authoritarian grandstanding the dark future of the GOP?
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
He was no libertarian, but he absorbed an important lesson about regulating speech.
In the years since the Cold War, conservatives have lost sight of the relationship between liberty and personal responsibility.
Both Hawley's "national conservatism" and similar ideas prevalent in many quarters on the left threaten free speech and liberty more generally.
My recently published article on the NCC project outlines several important areas of agreement between conservative, libertarian, and progressive participants.
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
The political right needs more self-analysis and less whataboutism.
Conservative judges have stymied Trump in his election challenges - and many other cases where his positions went against their legal principles. But a populist/nationalist GOP could gradually change the nature of conservative jurisprudence.
The NCC put together teams of conservatives, progressives, and libertarians to propose their own rewrites of the Constitution. All three teams came up with interesting ideas - and with some notable areas of agreement.
By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.
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Fox News host's The Plus is a funny yet serious argument about making politics matter less in your life.
The Fox News host explains his new self-help book The Plus, the upside of quarantine, and why he thinks Donald Trump will be reelected.
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The tech billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for America's future.
The reason is Trump's recent tweet calling for postponement of the election.
The show smartly grasps that there will always be competing visions for the future of feminism.
Conservative legal commentator and experienced religious liberties litigator David French explains why.
The Brown University economist and outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter discusses George Floyd, social progress, and the state of political discourse.
Donald Trump didn't start the protests, but the fires he's stoking will scorch the nation and discredit the conservative movement.
Pundits often speak of the judiciary in terms of liberal or conservative judges issuing liberal or conservative opinions. The reality is far more complicated.
The right's response to the coronavirus lockdowns brings out a longstanding American paradox.
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
Friday A/V Club: Daniel Tucker discusses his documentary Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas—and we also screen the movie itself.
Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
The Club for Growth prides itself on holding lawmakers accountable "by publicizing their voting record." Except, well…not right now.
New York Times columnist and Decadent Society author defends prohibitionism in a conversation on The Fifth Column.
It will empower the state and will divide rather than unite Americans.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
Club for Growth and FreedomWorks cease supporting the congressman they've showered with awards
They probably won't succeed in criminalizing Pornhub, but manifesto-wielding conservatives are trying to reshape the GOP into a movement against individualism.
The new right naively thinks a government more empowered to "protect children" would be good for families. Nope.
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The conservative critic of Donald Trump and author of Liberal Fascism and Suicide of the West is launching The Dispatch, a site for principled conservatism.
"There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists."
The erudite author and television commentator is not ready to give up on conservatism just yet.
The American Priority Festival gave a glimpse inside the world where deep state theories thrive.
Putting up with some drag-queen storytelling seems like a small price to pay to live in a relatively free society.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.