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...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Jentezen is worried about the radical left controlling churches: California’s Governor just banned singing/chanting at church. Catholics can’t recite mass; Evangelicals can’t worship out loud. The very definition of discrimination is to allow thousands...
Jeff Cimmino has a really interesting piece at The National Review on the rise of traditionalism (as opposed to free-market, classical liberalism) among conservatives on college campuses. Here is a taste: Young Americans are usually thought of as decidedly liberal. This is...
Over at the Anxious Bench blog, Baylor University historian Thomas Kidd wonders what the eighteenth-century English conservative Edmund Burke might say to Donald Trump. Here is a taste: Worst of all, Trump represents the opposite of what Burke called “virtuous...
After blasting the type of conservatism found on the pages of The National Review and The Weekly Standard, Andrew Bacevich, writing in The American Conservative, offers a conservative alternative. He calls it “Counterculture Conservatism.” Here are some its characteristics: Counterculture...
Gertrude Himmelfarb (echoing Charles Murray’s conclusion in Coming Apart) believes that we need a revival of civil society in America. Such a new “civic Great Awakening” (Murray’s phrase), she argues, must draw upon the views of older defenders of civil...
Over American Creation, “Mark in Spokane” has posted a lengthy quote from English statesman Edmund Burke on the relationship between dissenting Protestantism and the American Revolution. The quote comes from Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies,” which was delivered […]
