My Kingdom for a Horse: Monarchism, Horse-Eating, and Other Sensible Oddities
I’m visiting London right now, on a short (and much-needed) break from my studies in France. Among the many historical and cultural wonders scattered about this place, the local magazines and...
View ArticleWhat I Saw at CPAC 2013
Having just returned from the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference—CPAC’s 40th incarnation—I’m still recuperating from the thousands-strong convention (I’m not a crowds person) and processing...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher’s Fight Against Socialism
Margaret Thatcher has left behind a legacy that will be marked in history. Regardless of whether conservatives and libertarians have competing interpretations and views on her positions, one thing is...
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Persecution and the Art of Tweeting: 7 Tips
You have opinions. And you want to share your opinions beyond your email contacts and Facebook friends. After all, we have the World Wide Web and you’re thinking of sharing your ideas with the whole...
View ArticleSmall Government Has Everything To Do With Conservatism
A couple days ago, fellow Intercollegiate Review writer, Chase Padusniak, published a very interesting post. Titled “What Has Small Government to do with Conservatism?” Chase examines the relationship...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Fusionism
A couple of months back, I criticized Robert Miller’s defense of “pragmatic [classical] liberalism” against the indictment of liberalism brought by Patrick Deneen, among others. At the end of that...
View ArticleBreaking News: Christianity and Libertarianism Probably Incompatible
A while back I wrote an article entitled “What Has Small Government to do With Conservatism?” A little reflection, a lot of George Grant, and a ton of Jewish reggae have brought me to realize...
View ArticleThe Conservatism of Environmentalism
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the...
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What Marriage Is . . . and What It Isn’t
In a 5–4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The decision forces the federal government to recognize same-sex marriage in states where it is...
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Going Green: How to Recycle a Prayer
“Pride in craftsmanship is well explained by saying that to labor is to pray, for conscientious effort to realize an ideal is a kind of fidelity.” -Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences, page 73....
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Steam Drills and Smart Phones
“…the fallacy of technology, which is the conclusion that because a thing can be done, it must be done.” -Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences, page 60 In the music to which I normally listen (your...
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The Buck Doesn’t Stop
Our Town “Altruism is the basis of the conception of a brotherhood of man without a Father.” -Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics & Gnosticism The stereotypes are tiresome, but ring hollow....
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Deifying the State: Thinking about Europe and America
My laptop is at 20% battery, I have no way to charge it, and I’m sitting in a boiling hot hotel in Zürich, Switzerland: so let’s have a quick talk about God and the state. I’m not one to be afraid of...
View ArticleVOTE–Which Song Has the Higher Love?
I’m proud to say that having grown up in Texas, not only do I gladly sport a slight Texan drawl (which I only noticed when an out-of-state college buddy pointed it out to me), but I also have a genuine...
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Chronology and Confidence
“The concept of Progress is the concept of man’s increasing command, and eventually perfect command, over the forces of nature; a concept which enhances too readily our conceit, and brutalizes our...
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A Syllogism for Woodrow Wilson
“In visiting the sick, do not presently play the physician if you be not knowing therein.” -George Washington, Rules of Civility Although I am tempted to comment directly upon our union’s current...
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Politics, Ideas, and the West
This is the first contribution to ISI’s symposium, Conservatism: What’s Wrong with it and How Can We Make it Right? In 2008, the writer George Packer argued in a New Yorker article entitled “The Fall...
View ArticleThe Conservative Coalition: Is That All We Are?
Samuel Gregg’s recent IR article “Politics, Ideas, and the West” is right about the right. Conservatism devoid of faith in its own righteousness is not conservatism at all. Any Western conservatism...
View ArticleSymposium: Despair Is Too Much of a Good Thing
This article is in response to “Rescuing Freedom from Despair” by Jonathan S. Tobin and is part of the symposium on “What’s Wrong With Conservatism?” If, as Jonathan Tobin writes, despair comes...
View ArticleSymposium: Know Your Audience
This article is in response to Want Truth? Work for Beauty by Gerald Russello and is part of the symposium on “Conservatism: What’s Wrong with It and How Can We Make It Right?“ Art is a grand teacher....
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