Jerry Muller’s essay in Foreign Affairs on the enduring power of the rather redundantly named ethnic nationalism (or “ethnonationalism” as he calls it) makes a number of important observations about the phenomenon, but tends to confuse things by the end of his piece, mixing “ethnonationalism” with the problems of religious communalism and cultural diversity and by endorsing arguments for partition … [Read More]

Conditions in the new Iraq continue to get worse for that country’s dwindling Christian population. On Friday, February 29, 2008 terrorists kidnapped Paulos Faraj Rahho archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, and killed three of his assistants. We still don’t know who’s responsible—our Shi’ite “allies” (who have marched around Christian neighborhoods closing down liquor … [Read More]

Some other publications have characterized their founding as a “standing athwart history yelling stop” or a taking part in the “severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.” Taki Theodoracopulos, our beloved editor, publisher, and mentor, has always described our task a bit differently—something more in the line of shaking up a conservative movement … [Read More]

From Climate of Here Is a conservative climate consensus possible? If hard cases make bad law, soft science makes sensible politics even harder. The Climate Wars present legislators on both sides of the aisle with few certainties, among them that one side is prone to construe any human impact on climate as tantamount to Weather of Mass Destruction. It does … [Read More]

Sen. John McCain is facing questions about his close ties to Rev. John Hagee (pictured here with McCain, whom he has endorsed for President). Hagee is leader of the controversial “Protestant Ultramontanists”—Evangelical Christians who favor not only the safety and security of Vatican City, but the forcible reconquest of the former Papal States, even at the cost of war with Italy … [Read More]

One of the stranger aspects of contemporary American “mainstream conservatism” is the obsession with “fascism,” a political philosophy one might have supposed was safely buried under the rubble of 1945 Europe. National Review and The Weekly Standard are full of dire warnings about the dangers posed by “Islamofascism,”  and Jonah Goldberg is being hailed by the likes of Glenn Beck … [Read More]

What follows are a few brief responses to the often informative comments generated by my comments on the “Nazi” Stauffenberg. Never would I deny that the opponents of the Nazi regime were limited to the July 20 conspirators. The activities of the Weisse Rose, a group of anti-Nazi students in Munich who were executed in 1943, and the anti-Nazi stance of … [Read More]