This is the final installment in a four-part symposium on the Ron Paul movement. John Derbyshire, Justin Raimondo, and Paul Gottfried have made previous contributions.   A colleague, for whom paleoconservatism is as esoteric as paleontology, recently inquired into the mood of Ron Paul supporters: Do they view his campaign as a worthwhile endeavor, if not a success, or … [Read More]

The latest report on religion in America helps explain why the U.S. Catholic bishops are so terrified at the notion of our country controlling its immigration—exercising its solemn, sovereign duty to regulate, according to the virtue of prudence, the influx of newcomers into America. As today’s NY Times reports, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has issued the results … [Read More]

“Shame on you, Barack Obama!” Hillary Clinton has angrily declared in response to some hostile campaign mail on health care and NAFTA his campaign sent out against her. And then there was that picture a campaign aide released to Drudge.   Hillary’s statements of how proud she was to compete alongside Obama seem to come from another century, even though … [Read More]

Today it is almost axiomatic that conservatives are nationalistic, interventionist, and overly fond of answering political problems with police or military solutions. The power of John McCain’s candidacy probably boils down, in the end, to the craving Republicans felt for a genuine war-time hero—after 8 years of being governed by a nattering chickenhawk and his team of empire-building draft dodgers and … [Read More]

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn was arguably the first proponent of what has recently been revived under the rubric of ‘intelligent design’.  Yet he doesn’t even get a walk on in Expelled. What gives?  In his last book,  Studien auf dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften,  this utterly respectable Victorian scientist took a swipe at Darwin’s newfangled evolutionary theory: “for … [Read More]

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently went down to North Carolina to campaign against Walter Jones. Jones is one of the strongest conservative leaders in Congress when it comes to issues such as gun control, traditional values, and immigration. He is also one of the few Republicans willing to stand up to the Bush administration’s reckless foreign policy.  … [Read More]

  In the aftermath of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence on Feb. 17, Moscow and Washington are trading accusations as to which country has acted more irresponsibly.   Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns complained that Moscow had been given the opportunity to help facilitate the separation of Kosovo from Serbia in a stable, orderly fashion: “So we gave … [Read More]

It has long been a source of puzzlement to observers of the American political scene that the American Left has been dominated by the intellectual influence of former Nazis, followers of the (quickly purged) Nazi dissidents the Strasser brothers. It has long seemed curious to me that a movement with a rich intellectual heritage all its own (such as the Left) … [Read More]

The talk-radio and “conservative movement” Right hates the New York Times much more than it hates John McCain, and the paper’s recent dubious reporting on the senator’s alleged shenanigans with an attractive young lobbyist, and its re-opening of the “Keating Five” scandal, might ensure that McCain’s erstwhile critics will rally to his side.    As evidenced by my earlier posts, and … [Read More]

That phony story about John McCain and Vicky Iseman, which the New York Times ballyhooed as an “exclusive,” is so typical of the Old Bag. But Bill Keller’s (the executive editor of the Times) response, that he stands by the story and the rest of the bull, brought back memories. During the ’80s in London, one of the town’s most…er…shall we … [Read More]