Politics & Power

God’s Economy

Bush's strong effort to restore the freedom of the church took the political side of this freedom for the whole meaning of the tradition. At the same time, his supply-side policies benefiting the wealthiest Americans could not have been more antithetical to the social-pluralist vision that inspired his faith-based initiative.

No National ID Tags for Buttercup–Yet

Since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has been discussed on this site by Jerry Salyer and Susan McWilliams, I want to mention that...

The Closing of the Conservative Mind?

No fan of Frum am I, but this is disturbing. The AEI has fired him for deviations from the Party Line.

David Rieff on FPR–and others

According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of the American commentariat spectrum, in that many of our writers...

Counterfeiting Conservatism

My latest at "The American Conservative"

America’s Potemkin Village

It takes a village - to keep the Feds at bay.

David Brooks on Phillip Blond

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

Afoot

News from the provinces is hardly all bad.

Red Tories in America

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

Come Home, America: Prospects for a Coalition Against Empire

The recent anti-empire, anti-war conference in DC could be the start of a significant Left-and-Right movement to challenge the foundation of U.S. foreign policy. An across-the-spectrum coalition has great potential but problems are inherent. Political theory and political history can provide lessons.