Politics & Power

The Population Bomb

Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .

The Cost of Everything

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.

What Military-Industrial Complex?

A "senior stateman" avows ignorance of Leviathan.

Gridlock and the Common Good

Events may soon conspire to force a conversation about the common good and the limits of power. Until that happens, gridlock may be the best option.

Hadley Arkes on Free Speech

Writing at Public Discourse (of which I am the managing editor), Hadley Arkes criticizes conservatives and liberals and defends the notion that communities can...

American Self-Loathing

Anti-Washington Animus as Self-loathing.

Why I Hope Westboro Baptist Church, the ACLU, and Dahlia Lithwick...

Free speech is a good thing. Respecting the value of the whole community is a better one.

Austerity Measures Spark Riots in Europe

Shades of things to come?

Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?

The answer is hardly obvious.

I’ll Trade You 750 Hubert Humphreys for One Henrik Shipstead

My latest column from the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/slogans-heroes.