How The Cultural Left Morphed Into A Capitalist Movement
The cultural left is ideologically rooted in anti-capitalism, but recent events suggest young leftists aren’t as anti-capitalist as they like to imagine.
How Liberalism’s Global Contradictions Gave Rise To Donald Trump
A new book by Patrick Porter, ‘The False Promise of Liberal Order,’ charts where American grand strategy went wrong, what led to the global backlash since 2016, and what is the future way forward.
What Happens When The Right Starts Acting Like The Left About The Constitution
Many on the left have accused originalism of being nothing but a cover for conservatives’ preferred policy outcomes, but Vermeule’s proposal illustrates how restrained originalists have been.
No, The Supreme Court Should Not Allow Discrimination Against Christians In The Name Of Neutrality
A court case over whether Philadelphia can ban Christian organizations from working with foster children offers the Supreme Court an opportunity to restore plurality to American life.
The Economist Has Given Up On Liberalism
Even as The Economist drifts further and further into progressivism and away from the liberalism of its founding, it still claims to be liberalism’s true, authentic voice.
A Liberal Order That Seeks To Shut Down Christian Charities Doesn’t Deserve To Survive
Christian post-liberals on the right have seen how readily the liberal center-left and the Chamber-of-Commerce right surrender to the extreme and illiberal left. It makes them wonder: Why not us?
The Revolution Came For J.K. Rowling
The 1960s liberals gave birth to this monster who now smites them. But extremism of any kind eventually overreaches and cocoons itself from greater society.
Nationalism, Populism, And Saving Ourselves From A Dark Future
First Things editor R.R. Reno’s book, ‘Return of the Strong Gods,’ persuasively argues that tolerance and liberalism are now at odds with our community bonds and spiritual convictions.
When The European Union Becomes An Empire, Its Clash With The United States Is Inevitable
‘The world of tomorrow is a world of empires, in which we Europeans and you British can only defend your interests, your way of life, by doing it together in a European framework and a European Union,’ says a key EU leader.
Hawley’s War On Tech Is Not To Destroy It, But To Tame It
While Sen. Josh Hawley is taking on Big Tech, his proposals provide a framework for technological responsibility, not a battle plan to destroy technology.
Not The National Conservatism We’ve Been Looking For
Promoting the same failed policies, and rehabilitating the same failed ‘experts,’ simply because they have rebranded as ‘national conservatives,’ will not advance the American cause.
Peter Thiel Calls For Google To Be Investigated For Treason
The year 2016 was a defining moment in the Western polity, with Brexit and Donald Trump’s election changing the status quo, which led to this conference trying to figure out what exactly is causing such changes.
Everyone Quotes The Declaration, But Not Many Read It
The complex reality behind American independence is being pushed aside even in our study of the Declaration itself.
Now That YouTube Bans Everything But Twerking Drag Kids, The Right Needs More Than Just Yelling ‘Stop’
What do you do when you’re amidst a handful of activists determined to destroy the foundations of a society from within? You treat them like insurgents, and you root them out.
For Americans To Have Freedom, They Must Revive The Common Good
Full human flourishing is communal, not individual. Political liberalism must recognize this inherent truth in order to succeed.
Why The United States And European Union Are Destined To Collide
A conference in London highlights the biggest debate of our times: whether independent nations can co-exist within a liberal imperialism unwilling to recognize borders.
How Overemphasizing Individualism Made Liberalism Morally Bankrupt
As a political theory for rational, autonomous adults, liberalism has no place for the dependent and disabled, against whom Western liberal nations are engaged in a quiet genocide.
Newest Middlebury College Fracas Illustrates How Democracy Turns Totalitarian
The vilification of those who differ, the use of social control to punish, dividing all into victims and oppressors—what Ryszard Legutko describes is no longer a small cloud on the horizon.
Data Shows Democrats’ Increasingly Rabid Leftism Is Driven By White People
Progressives of pallor get quite a bit out of not only promoting radicals of color, but also attacking their critics as racist.
Now Is The Time To Revive MLK’s Vision For African-American Culture
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s America is one where citizens act as the best possible representatives of their respective cultures and traditions.