It is not generally my practice to answer bloggers responding to my commentaries. I"ve also had the strong sense that some of the respondents to Paul Weyrich's attack on the Fairness Doctrine were doing so well that my own efforts might appear superfluous. But since my older son has now ...
Having read Rich Lowry's latest gripe in National Review about the application of the Fairness Doctrine and how this liberal trick would hurt "conservative" radio commentators, my immediate, sarcastic response was "this guy must be kidding." As someone on the old right, I ...
If Russell Kirk is guilty of reading too much of European conservatism into the American founding, Allan Wolfe goes even farther in the other direction, by assuming that the American Constitution from the beginning prepared the way for the kind of left-liberal regime that he fancies. But the ...
A recent exchange held on WDAY's Hot Talk with Scott Hennan between Serb journalist and author of Sword of the Prophet, Srdja Trifkovic and best-selling neocon celebrity Dinesh D'souza underscores the silliness of what today passes for high-toned political discussion. In a widely discussed book, ...
Having forced myself to watch the most recent display of Republican presidential intelligence in Columbia, South Carolina on May 15, I came away with impressions that clearly jar with those of the authorized FOX commentators. Unlike Hannity and Colmes, who after the debate rushed to assure us that ...
Among its idiosyncrasies, the neocon imperial idea, which according to Gamble is especially tempting for Protestant Americans, assumes the inherent depravity of the Habsburg Empire, a regime that that paradigmatic neocon hero Woodrow Wilson had hated as authoritarian, and Teutonic. This hatred came ...
National Review won't publish paleocons or principled libertarians, but it will publish perorations like this: "To my last breath, I will defend Trotsky who alone and pursued from country to country and finally laid low in his own blood in a hideously hot house in Mexico City, said no to Soviet ...
I might find Ann Coulter minimally bearable if only she had the honesty to point out that the two parties are for the most part indistinguishable. They are both big-government, welfare-state parties, which truckle to designated minorities and which engage equally in such moronic rituals as pulling ...
The posturing of the Southern Poverty Law Center is symptomatic of the "anti-fascist" hysteria that has already swept over Western and Central Europe. By now the current anti-fascist fury has resulted in the destruction of civil liberties and in the eradication of academic freedom, trends ...
