Jonah Goldberg: The Cult of Unity Is a Poison
Has Romney at times been calculating? Of course. He’s a politician. But the suggestion that he is not an honest or decent man because he was “disloyal” to such ...
Category: Views
The Corruption Before Trump
We are where we are in American politics, in part, because all these big-picture projects succeeded in enriching private interests … but failed to achieve their...
Jonah Goldberg on Post-Liberal Conservatism
Where the post-liberals have a point is that humans are happiest in communities, families and institutions of faith. The solution to the culture wars is to allo...
For Liberality, Against Parsimonious Liberalism
Instead of the virtues of classical republicanism, the romance of nationalism, the ructions of democracy, many modern liberals give us a vision of an Open Socie...
Brookhiser on Bob Dole’s Salute & Custom
But we have customs that train us in how to behave, curbing our emotions and memories. Every conservative writes about them: Don’t tear down the great English o...
Opening paragraph of the year candidate
What a brilliant start to this Kevin Williamson post in The Corner at NRO: Eric Levitz of New York magazine has written a long-ish post that is mostly about my ...