We’re not sure why, but the other day, the conservative commentator Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) dredged up a three-year-old interview given by Senator Bernie...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks, the opposition to President Trump has morphed into opposition to the entire federal immigration bureaucracy. Dep...

Before there was a Left, there was no Right. Of course, there had been many conflicts during the preceding fifteen or so centuries between the defenders of w...

Our story today opens in a prison cell in Italy where a sickly, diminutive, brilliant, thirty-six-year-old fellow named Antonio Gramsci is serving a twenty-y...

Twenty years ago last month, we penned one of our favorite and most controversial pieces. Regular readers will recognize it well, not just because we made a ...

We were remiss last week in that we failed to note the ugly but important 52nd anniversary of the start of Mao Tse Tung’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolut...

This past Tuesday, May 8th, was the 119th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek. Although Hayek was a serious economist who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in...

A few weeks back, in a piece on Orwell and the effects of imprecise language, we argued that the contemporary use of the term “Nazi” was both meaningless and...

Much has been said and written about the tragic case of Alfie Evans, a two-year old British child with a thus-far undiagnosed neurological condition, whose l...

Christianity has been at war with leftist atheism since the 17th century, when the ideology that would become known as the Left emerged from the primal slime...

The primary purpose of this web site is to “educate and enlighten” – just as it says at the top of the home page. Being both conservatives and realists, we k...

In an essay entitled "Politics and the English Language," written in 1946, George Orwell argued that political disorder was inevitably accompanied by a deter...

History and literature are replete with examples of men and women who bravely risked their lives and their reputations for a cause that they considered to be...

So...Congress just passed a massive budget bill, which Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana rightly described as "a Great Dane-sized whiz down the leg of every ...

We were sorry to hear that the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking has died. We are not smart enough to have understood virtually any of his theories or f...

Last week, when Gary Cohn resigned as head of the National Economic Council, President Trump light-heartedly described him as a “globalist.” The Washington ...

If, over the last few weeks, you have paid attention to the mainstream media, you are likely under the impression that the United States is beset by an epide...

If Jean-Jacque Rousseau is the patron saint of American liberals, which is a commonly held belief among educated conservatives, then we would argue that the ...