Conservatism
CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is held every year and serves as a sort of bellwether for the conservative movement. According to Roger L. Simon, there was a different twist this year: The party staged by Andrew Breitbart for GOProud — the gay Republican and conservative group — was as close to a game…
First Things Interim Editor James Nuechterlein cautions American conservatives against undue pessimism: As [First Things founder] Fr. [Richard] Neuhaus never tired of reminding us, the first thing to be said about public life is that public life is not the first thing. Which suggests that we should be as wary of dystopian despair as we…
So a group of gay conservatives and some Tea Party figures are urging the Republican Party to keep away from social issues while they’ve got a role in untangling our big-government mess. One particular comment highlights, in a humorous way, the strange assumptions that social liberals make about the universality of their causes: “When they…
Jonah Goldberg mentions something that is entirely accurate, to my experience: … a new study, “Conservative Critics and Conservative College Students: Variations in Discourses of Exclusion” by sociologists Amy Binder and Kate Wood at the University of California San Diego, confirms that many conservative students at an (unnamed) elite Eastern university, felt as if they…
Wrapping up early on the Friday of a week of long days — and with an optimism that I haven’t had for quite some time, perhaps somewhat attributable to the sense of autumn’s onset… and the pumpkin beers now on liquor store shelves — the moment seems just right to jab at my libertarian (specifically,…
On last night’s Matt Allen Show, Andrew touched on the nature of conservatism and the trustworthiness of the General Assembly when it comes to moral obligations to pay debts. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
A lunch break from Saturday activities is an excellent time to watch Peter Robinson’s Uncommon Knowledge interview with Thomas Sowell, not the least for Sowell’s one word of advice were the Obama administration to seek his counsel. Two individual points, though, sparked scribblings on my notepad. In segment 2, Robinson reads from U.S. District Judge…
Granted, he’s a sympathetic journalist, but Jay Nordlinger’s profile of Norway’s Progress Party (which aligns pretty closely with the American conservative movement) paints an interesting picture, with some notable moments: The next winter, Israel went into Gaza, to stop these rocket attacks. In Oslo, there were riots, as the Muslim community reacted. Jensen gave a…
A quick note on conservatives’ view of businesses appears to be in order. In general, we do not believe businesses are inherently pure, moral actors. We do not look at the housing bubble and the derivatives market and defend them on the grounds that they were legal, so nyaa, nyaa, the CEOs got away with…
Lee Edwards’s review of Reappraising the Right: The Past & Future of American Conservatism, by George Nash, in the current National Review is certainly timely: Nash ends his thoughtful reappraisal asking “Whither conservatism?” and responding that the following points should be kept in mind. Modern American conservatism is a “coalition with many points of origin…
