The Political ForumAug 3, 20186 minSocialism + Nationalism = ?We’re not sure why, but the other day, the conservative commentator Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) dredged up a three-year-old interview giv...
The Political ForumJun 29, 20187 minImmigration, Bureaucracy, and DehumanizationOver the course of the last couple of weeks, the opposition to President Trump has morphed into opposition to the entire federal immigrat...
The Political ForumJun 14, 20185 minA Tribute to the Great Thinkers, Part IIIBefore there was a Left, there was no Right. Of course, there had been many conflicts during the preceding fifteen or so centuries betwe...
The Political ForumJun 8, 20186 minWe'll Take You with Us, Swim or DrownOur story today opens in a prison cell in Italy where a sickly, diminutive, brilliant, thirty-six-year-old fellow named Antonio Gramsci i...
The Political ForumJun 4, 20185 minThe Euro Crisis, Twenty Years On.Twenty years ago last month, we penned one of our favorite and most controversial pieces. Regular readers will recognize it well, not jus...
The Political ForumMay 25, 20185 minThe Perpetual Cultural RevolutionWe 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 Proletar...
The Political ForumMay 10, 20184 minA Tribute to the Great Thinkers, Part IIThis past Tuesday, May 8th, was the 119th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek. Although Hayek was a serious economist who won the...
The Political ForumMay 7, 20185 minRoosevelt and "the Wrong Sort of People"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 ...
The Political ForumApr 27, 20185 minAlfie Evans vs. The "General Will"Much has been said and written about the tragic case of Alfie Evans, a two-year old British child with a thus-far undiagnosed neurologica...
The Political ForumApr 18, 20184 minChristianity at WarChristianity has been at war with leftist atheism since the 17th century, when the ideology that would become known as the Left emerged f...
The Political ForumApr 12, 20185 minA Tribute to the Great Thinkers, Part IThe primary purpose of this web site is to “educate and enlighten” – just as it says at the top of the home page. Being both conservative...
The Political ForumApr 11, 20183 minOrwell, Trump, and "Nazis"In an essay entitled "Politics and the English Language," written in 1946, George Orwell argued that political disorder was inevitably ac...
The Political ForumMar 26, 20185 minMcCabe and Mueller: Heroes or Villains?History and literature are replete with examples of men and women who bravely risked their lives and their reputations for a cause that t...
The Political ForumMar 23, 201812 minBudget Follies -- FROM THE ARCHIVESSo...Congress just passed a massive budget bill, which Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana rightly described as "a Great Dane-sized whiz dow...
The Political ForumMar 14, 20186 minR.I.P., Stephen HawkingWe were sorry to hear that the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking has died. We are not smart enough to have understood virtually any ...
The Political ForumMar 12, 20187 minGlobalization, Part ILast week, when Gary Cohn resigned as head of the National Economic Council, President Trump light-heartedly described him as a “globalis...
The Political ForumMar 9, 20184 minThe Denial of TruthIf, over the last few weeks, you have paid attention to the mainstream media, you are likely under the impression that the United States ...
The Political ForumFeb 14, 20183 minThe Road to Serfdom Revisited.If Jean-Jacque Rousseau is the patron saint of American liberals, which is a commonly held belief among educated conservatives, then we w...
