Chris Christie came to the Road to Majority conference to discuss–surprise!– presidential character. Earlier in the day Ralph Reed, the conference host, rejected the idea that conservative evangelicals were part of a Trump “cult.” He said that Christians do not […]
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Tim Scott hopes that he can win the GOP nomination by playing his own version of the race card
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference. Watch: It looks like Scott is going to run as Black conservative at a time when most conservatives believe that Democrats are dividing the […]
Vivek Ramaswamy’s does a nice job articulating a basic conservative message, but as a Hindu he’ll have a hard time resonating with the Christian Right
Businessman and author Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority” conference. The director of the Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition introduced him by saying that he was responsible for removing Don Lemon from CNN. Ramaswamy says that he […]
Josh Hawley’s conservative populism was on full display at Road to Majority 2023
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made a visit on Friday to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference. Watch: If you watched the speech you can see that Hawley wasted no time identifying with the crowd: I’m proud […]
Mike Pence at Road to Majority 2023
Mike Pence was the first 2024 GOP presidential candidate to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference this weekend. Pence’s walkout music was Kid Rock’s “Born Free.” The applause was sparse. Watch his speech: After listening […]
Ralph Reed opens the “Road Majority Conference”: Christians should be “at the top, and not the bottom, of our political system”
The God and country crowd is gathered at the Washington D.C. Hilton this weekend for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority Conference.” Christian Right political activist Ralph Reed founded the Faith and Freedom Coalition in 2009 to oppose […]
The Dispatch to Republicans: “Say in public those things about Donald Trump that you so often say in private”
The Dispatch is a conservative anti-Trump online political magazine. Earlier this week it released a rare editorial. The subject is Donald Trump’s federal indictment. Here is a taste: There are many reasons to believe he will be—and ought to be—a […]
The American Association of University Professors on academic freedom in Florida
Today the American Association of University Professors released the “Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Florida.” You can read it here. Here is the opening paragraph: In January 2023, the AAUP announced the establishment of a […]
What is going on in the Texas State Historical Association?
If you examine its website, the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) looks like any other state historical society. It is led by historians with Ph.Ds from reputable institutions. President Nancy Baker Jones is an accomplished public historian with a Ph.D […]
What William F. Buckley thought about Dorothy Day’s Catholicism
Here is a taste of David Mills’s column at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In 1960, the leader of American conservatism treated a leading radical, and as it happened fellow Catholic, like an idiot. The first, who died in 2008, is now […]
Who is Chris Rufo?
He was virtually unknown until he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in September 2020 to attack critical race theory. At the time he was a “fellow” at the Discovery Institute, a conservative think tank best known for its […]
Can liberal professors save the GOP by teaching the best of the conservative tradition?
Check out Claremont-McKenna College political scientist Jon Shields New York Times piece on conservative thought in American colleges and universities. A taste: Every year I ask my students, most of whom are quite liberal, to read books in this conservative […]
Rod Dreher’s funder pulls the plug
Howard Ahmanson Jr,. the sole benefactor of Rod Dreher’s blog at The American Conservative, just pulled the plug on the conservative commentator. Here is Caleb Ecarma at Vanity Fair: …But one particular reader, upon reading the last of said posts, […]
Inside Tucker’s head
I ran across this video today: And then I read David French’s recent column at The New York Times. A taste: On Tuesday evening, two news reports caught my attention. The first was an Emerson College poll of Republican primary voters in […]
Why some conservatives hate college
A Current Affairs piece by Matt McManus and Nathan J. Robinson begins with a quote from right-wing MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk’s book The College Scam: “Where did Anthony Fauci acquire the medical authority and credibility to impose a lockdown on […]
How Ben Carson appropriated the Asbury Revival at CPAC
Check out our full coverage of the Asbury Revival. The former HUD director and presidential candidate’s speech this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference praised the founding fathers, repeated the myth that Ben Franklin led the Constitutional Conventional in […]
Apparently $100,000 is the price to compete in the CPAC straw poll
Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the GOP nomination for president in 2024, but he has no name recognition and as a result was not expected to do well on the straw poll conducted last weekend at a gathering of the […]
McKay Coppins at CPAC: “I’ve never seen it more dead”
What happens if you hold a Conservative Political Action Conference and no one shows up? Here is McKay Coppins at The Atlantic: The right-wing-merch retailer’s setup was among the most impressive at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display […]
CPAC 2023 in six minutes
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Highlights from Harper’s forum on liberalism
I finally finished the Harper’s forum, “Is Liberalism Worth Saving?” The forum featured Patrick Deneen, Francis Fukuyama, Deirdre McCloskey, and Cornel West. Here are a few things I highlighted: Deneen on populism: The other form of populism that liberalism fears […]