The conservative, libertarian, free-trade organization Americans for Prosperity, led by billionaire businessman Charles Koch, does not want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024. Today Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity, released a memo on the […]
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Rod Dreher in Hungary: “blogging and backtracking”
Here is Hungarian writer Balázs Gulyás on the mess the conservative blogger is making in Hungary: Last week, Rod Dreher, the American author now living in Hungary, caused a diplomatic scandal that has gone largely unnoticed in his home country. […]
David French joins The New York Times
The Dispatch and Atlantic writer, known for a conservativism that celebrates pluralism and rejects Trumpism, will be a regular columnist at The New York Times. Here is the press release: Writing about politics and current affairs in the era of […]
Are you listening to WNYC’s “On the Media’s” podcast series on conservative talk radio?
We introduced you to this series here. Episode Four dropped today. I talked a bit about my experience with the Rush Limbaugh show in the early 1990s and introducing my Dad to the program. Here is WNYC’s “The Divided Dial: […]
Is National Conservatism Christian?
Over at The Bulwark, historian Joshua Tait writes, “Christianity’s emphasis on forgiveness, suffering, the meek and poor runs totally counter to the tendencies of the New Right and National Conservatism. Here is a taste of his piece: Within National Conservative […]
Critics of liberalism; critics of national conservativism
I missed this when it appeared last month. Several intellectuals, many from the world of religion and theology, published “An Open Letter Responding to the NatCon ‘Statement of Principles.’” Signers include Paul Griffiths, David Bentley Hart, Eugene McCarraher, John Milbank, […]
Florida governor Ron DeSantis at Hillsdale College: “Put on the full armor of God. Stand firm against the left’s schemes”
It used to be just evangelical ministers and preachers who invoked spiritual warfare against “the Left.” Now politicians do it as well. Here is the Miami Herald ‘s Ana Ceballos on DeSantis’s recent visit to Hillsdale College, a liberal arts […]
A national conservative defines “national conservatism” as an effort to “legislate toward a Protestant vision” for America
The so-called “national conservatives” are meeting next month in Miami. Speakers include Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Missouri senator Josh Hawley, political scientist Yoram Hazony, First Things editor R.R. Reno, historian Wilfred McClay, and Southern Baptist seminary president Albert Mohler (we […]
Albert Mohler: Christian nationalist
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently interviewed Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony on his podcast. Hazony is the author The Virtue of Nationalism (2018) and the more recent Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Watch: Some highlights: 7:50ff: Hazony defines a […]
National Review: Trump “was unfit to be entrusted with the office”
The editors of the conservative National Review have never been big Trump fans. In 2016, the magazine opposed Trump’s candidacy. Since then, the response to Trump has been mixed. Here is today’s editorial: As has been true of so many things […]
Ben Sasse on “government of the weirdos, by the weirdos and for the weirdos”
In a speech at the Reagan Foundation, the Nebraska senator ripped into the “performance artists” on the far left and the far right. Watch: If you don’t want to watch the speech, read Tom LoBianco’s piece at Yahoo News. A […]
What is a RINO?
At The Bulwark, William Saletan tries to define what the right wing means when they accuse someone of being “Republican in Name Only.” (Note: Someone accused me of this the other day and I am not even a registered Republican!). […]
The future of Trumpism
William Kristol believes Trumpism will be around for a long time. Here is a taste of his piece today at The Bulwark: We are now six years into the Trump era and one clearly sees—in the donor and media ecosystems, […]
The latest in the Grove City College wokeness saga
Not familiar with Grove City College’s successful attempt to crush “wokeness” and critical race theory? Get up to speed here. Here’s the latest: At a recently faculty-trustee luncheon, the Board of Trustees tried to clarify a few things. This is […]
Mike Pence positions himself for 2024
According to Adam Wren at Politico, the former Indiana governor and Vice-President of the United States is trying to find a lane that will allow him to praise Trump for his accomplishments and separate him from Trump’s many missteps. Wren […]
The power of a Trump endorsement in Ohio
If you read one thing to get up to speed on the J.D. Vance’s win in the Ohio GOP primary for U.S. Senate, I recommend Alex Shephard’s short piece at The New Republic. A taste: In a seven-person race full […]
Inside Higher Ed reports on the Grove City College “wokeness” controversy
Not familiar with what is going on at Grove City College? Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of Colleen Flaherty’s piece at Inside Higher Ed: Cedric Lewis, who co-taught and co-designed EDU 290, the elective on diversity […]
Grove City College “does not have a statement of faith, but it does now have a statement of politics”
Here is Baylor University historian Andrea Turpin at The Anxious Bench: Note that this decision-making paradigm says nothing about either the Christian identity of the college or the rigor of the education offered. It evaluates the role of racial justice education […]
A conservative academic changes his mind about safe spaces
Here is Jon Shields of Claremont-McKenna College: Like other conservative professors who are advocates of free speech on campus, I once opposed efforts to create a classroom climate in which students are protected from speech they find emotionally upsetting, ranging […]
The latest hit piece in the “elite evangelical” genre
Over at the Albert Mohler and Andrew T. Walker’s WORLD magazine culture war newsletter, Miles Smith, a history professor at Hillsdale College, seems to think that evangelical historians who criticize Donald Trump must be trying to cozy-up to the secular […]